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Engines of War

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by Christian Wolmar

Albert, King of the Belgians

  Alessandria

  Alexander II, Tsar

  Alexandria

  Ali, Prince

  Allenby, General Edmund

  Alma, battle of

  Alsace

  Alsace-Lorraine

  ambulance trains

  Princess Christian hospital trains

  American Civil War

  and subsequent wars

  Amiens

  Amman

  ammunition

  Anatolia

  Anatolian Railway

  Andover

  Andrews, James

  Angola

  Ankara

  Annapolis & Elk Ridge Railroad

  Antietam, battle of

  Antwerp

  Aqaba

  Aquia Creek Railroad

  Ardennes

  armoured cars

  armoured trains

  and Boer War

  Russian

  and Second World War

  and Vietnam War

  Zaamurets

  Arras

  artillery

  and light railways

  rail-mounted

  self-propelled

  Asopos Viaduct

  Assam

  Atbara

  Atlanta

  Auschwitz

  Austerlitz, battle of

  Australia

  Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) empire

  and First World War

  and German-Danish War

  and Italian wars

  Austro-Prussian War

  Azerbaijan

  Baden

  Baghdad

  Balaklava

  Baldwin Locomotive Works

  Balham station

  Balkans

  Baltic Sea

  Baltic states

  Baltimore, Maryland

  Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

  Bangladesh

  Bank station

  Bar Le Duc

  barbed wire

  Barnova

  Basra

  Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  Battle of the Bulge

  battleships

  Bavaria

  Bazaine, General François

  Beatty, James

  Beersheba

  Belarus

  Belfort

  Belgium

  and First World War

  Bell, David A.

  Bender

  Bengal

  Benns, F. Lee

  Benzino Electric Railway

  Berlin

  Berlin-Baghdad railway

  Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von

  Bethnal Green

  Béthune

  Betts, Edward

  Bicester Military Railway

  bicycles

  Big Shanty, Georgia

  Bismarck, Otto von

  Bitche fortress

  Black, Jeremy

  Black Sea

  Blesure

  blitzkrieg

  blockhouses

  Bloemfontein

  Bock, Field Marshal von

  Boer War

  and armoured trains

  Bohemia

  Bond, Brian

  Bordeaux

  Bosnia-Herzegovina

  Boston, Massachusetts

  Boulogne

  Bounds Green station

  Bowen Cooke, Miss

  Brahmaputra, river

  Branchville, South Carolina

  Brassey, Thomas

  Bridstowe station

  Britain

  and Abyssinian War

  and air raids

  and ambulance trains

  and Cold War

  colonial interests

  and Crimean War

  railway accidents

  railways and First World War

  railways and Second World War

  and Russo-Japanese War

  British Museum

  British Rail

  British Railways

  Brown, John

  Brusilov, General Alexei

  Brussels

  Bucharest

  Bulgaria

  Bull Run, battle of

  Burge, Captain W. S.

  Burgoyne, Field Marshal

  Burma

  Burma-Siam railway

  Burton, Anthony

  Cairo

  Calais

  Calcutta

  Caledonian Railway

  camels

  Campbell, Donald

  canals

  Cannae, battle of

  Cape Colony

  Cape Government Railway

  Cape of Good Hope

  Cape to Cairo railway project

  Cape Town

  Caporetto, battle of

  carbon monoxide poisoning

  Carentan

  Carlisle

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carpathian Mountains

  Carter, Ernest

  cavalry

  Cossack

  and First World War

  Central Ohio Railroad

  Central Pacific Railroad

  Centreville, Virginia

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Champagne

  Chancellorsville, battle of

  Charge of the Light Brigade

  Charing Cross station

  chariots

  Charles the Bold

  Charleston, South Carolina

  Chartres

  Chattanooga, Tennessee

  Chechen wars

  Chelyabinsk

  Chemin de Fer Meusien

  Cherbourg

  Chickamauga, battle of

  Chieveley

  China

  and Korean War

  and Sino-Japanese War

  and Vietnam War

  Chinese Eastern Railway

  Chittagong

  Churchill, Winston

  Cirencester

  Ciurea

  Clausewitz, Carl von

  Clifford, Captain Henry

  coal

  coffee

  Cold War

  Cologne

  Columbus, Ohio

  concentration camps

  Congo

  Congress of Vienna

  Constantinople

  see also Istanbul

  Cooke, Brian

  Corfu

  corps d’armée system

  Cossacks

  Côte d’Azur

  Coventry

  Crewe

  Crimea

  Crimean War

  Cromarty Firth

  Cuba

  Cuban Missile Crisis

  Czech Legion

  Czechoslovakia

  Daily Telegraph

  Dakar

  Dalny (Dalian)

  Damascus

  Danevirke retreat

  Danube, river

  Danville, Virginia

  Dardanelles

  Davies, W. J. K.

  Davis, Jefferson

  Dawnay, General

  de Wet, Christiaan

  Décauville company

  Deighton, Len

  Denikin, General Anton

  Denmark

  Department of Military Railways

  Deraa

  Derby

  Deutsche Bank

  Dien Bien Phu, battle of

  Dimapur

  Dinton station

  Dnieper, river

  Dniester, river

  Doctor Zhivago

  Donetz

  Dornisoara

  Dover

  Dresden

  Dunanreanu, Nicolae

  Dunkirk

  Dunkirk evacuation

  Dvina, river

  dynamite

  East Prussia

  Eastriggs

  Eboli

  Edinburgh

  Egypt

  Eisenbahntruppen

  Elbe, river

  Elburz mountains

  elephants

  Engineer and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps

  Est railway

  Estco
urt

  Estonia

  Eugénie, Empress

  Fakhri Pasha

  Farakka

  Faversham

  Fayolle, Capitaine

  Feisal, Prince

  Feldeisenbahnabteilung

  Feldmann, Lieutenant

  Ferdinand I, Emperor

  ferries

  Ferro, Marc

  Festing, General Francis

  Finland

  First World War

  Arab Revolt

  battle of Passchendaele

  Brusilov offensive

  defence of Verdun

  Eastern Front

  and evacuation of wounded

  German spring offensive

  Marne battles

  and Middle East

  preparatory phase and diplomacy

  ‘Race to the Sea’

  and railway safety

  and railway timetables

  Schlieffen Plan

  Somme battles

  supply operations

  US entry

  Western Front

  Flanders

  Fleming, Peter

  Flensburg

  Fliegende Hamburger train

  Folkestone

  Fontenoy

  Ford Model T cars

  Fort Sumter

  France

  allied invasion

  and ambulance trains

  colonial interests

  and Crimean War

  and Italian wars

  and Plan XVII

  railway accidents

  railway system

  railways and First World War

  railways and Second World War

  size of armed forces

  and Vietnam War

  Franco, General Francisco

  Franco-Prussian War

  and subsequent wars

  francs-tireurs

  Frankfurt

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke

  Franz Joseph, Emperor

  Fratesti

  Fredericksburg, Virginia

  French Resistance

  French secret services

  Fuller, William

  Fusan

  Gabel, Christopher

  Galatz

  Galicia

  Gallieni, General Joseph-Simon

  Gallipoli

  Ganges, river

  gares régulatrices

  Garland, Herbert

  Garrett, John

  Gaza

  Geddes, Sir Eric

  Geneva

  Genoa

  George V, King

  German South-West Africa

  German-Danish War

  Germany

  and air raids

  and ambulance trains

  colonial interests

  railways and First World War

  railways and Second World War

  size of armed forces

  unification

  see also Prussia

  Gettysburg, battle of

  Ghazala

  Gibraltar

  Gilinsky, General

  Girard (engine driver)

  Girouard, Edouard (Sir Percy)

  Glasgow

  Glubb Pasha

  gold

  Gordon, General Charles George

  Gorgopotamus Viaduct

  Göring, Hermann

  Görlitz

  Granson, battle of

  Grant, General Ulysses

  Great Central Railway

  Great Eastern Railway

  Greece

  Gretna Junction

  Grey, Sir Edward

  Grierson, Colonel Benjamin

  guerrilla attacks

  see also sabotage

  gunpowder torpedoes

  Gurlt, Dr

  Hagenau

  Haifa

  Haldane, Captain

  Hamburg

  Hamilton, J. A. B.

  Hamm

  Hannibal

  Hanoi

  Harbin

  Hardie, Robert

  Harkort, Friedrich

  Harper’s Ferry

  Harwich-Hook of Holland service

  Haupt, Herman

  Hawaii

  Hazebrouck

  Hejaz Railway

  helicopters

  Highland Railway

  Himalayas

  Hindenburg Line

  Hitler, Adolf

  and invasion of Russia

  Hittites

  Ho Chi Minh trail

  Hobsbawm, Eric

  Holocaust

  Hood, General John

  Horrocks, General Sir Brian

  horse-drawn railways

  horses

  and American Civil War

  and Austro-Prussian War

  and Boer War

  and Crimean War

  and First World War

  and Franco-Prussian War

  and Italian wars

  and Russo-Japanese War

  and Second World War

  hostages

  Hradish

  Hué

  Hull

  Hundred Years War

  Hungary

  Illustrated London News

  Imperial Military Railways

  Inchon

  India

  Indiana Central Railroad

  Indianapolis

  infantry

  and armoured trains

  Iraq

  see also Mesopotamia

  Ireland

  Irkutsk

  Istanbul

  Italy

  and First World War

  and Second World War

  wars of independence

  Jackson, General Thomas ‘Stonewall’

  Japan

  and Russo-Japanese War

  and Second World War

  and Sino-Japanese War

  Jaqmin, François

  Jastrow, Morris

  Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad

  Jersey

  Jerusalem

  Jerusalem Post

  Jessore

  Joffre, Marshal Joseph

  Johannesburg

  Jordan

  Kadikoi

  Kai-shek, Chiang

  Kamchatka

  Kantara

  Keaton, Buster

  Keegan, John

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kerensky, Alexander

  Khartoum

  Kiev

  Kim Jong-il

  Kimberley

  King’s Cross station

  Kitchener, General Lord

  Kolchak, Admiral Alexander

  Koluszki station

  Königgratz, battle of

  Königsberg

  Koomayleh

  Korea

  Korean War

  Kougoulsky, Boris

  Krakow rebellion

  Kruger, Paul

  Kuropatkin, General Alexei

  Kursk

  Kut Al Amara

  Ladysmith

  Lagny

  Lake Baikal

  Lake Ladoga

  Land Transport Corps

  Lawrence, T. E.

  Le Havre

  Le Manoir

  Lean, David

  Lebanon

  Lee, General Robert E.

  Leeb, Field Marshal von

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

  Leningrad

  see also St Petersburg

  Leopold, Prince

  Liandong peninsula

  Liaoyang

  Lichnowsky, Prince

  Liège

  light (field) railways tramways

  Lille

  Lincoln, Abraham

  List, Friedrich

  Lithuania

  Liverpool

  Liverpool & Manchester Railway

  Lloyd George, David

  Lobkowitz

  locomotives

  American

  British

  diesel

  German

  Prussian

  Russian

  logistic
s

  and First World War

  and Second World War

  Lombardy

  London

  London & North Western Railway

  London & South Western Railway

  London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

  London, Midland & Scottish Railway

  London Transport

  London Underground

  Longmoor Military Railway

  Lorraine

  lorries

  Louis XIV, King

  Louisville, Kentucky

  Louisville & Nashville Railroad

  Louvois, Marquis de

  Low Countries

  Luard, Captain

  Luristan mountains

  Luxembourg

  Luxor

  Lvov

  McCallum, Daniel

  McDowell, General Irvin

  Macedonia

  machine guns

  MacMahon, General Patrice de

  Madinah (Medina)

  Mafeking

  magazines

  Magdala, battle of

  Magenta, battle of

  Maginot Line

  Mains, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony

  Mainz

  Makkah (Mecca)

  Malaya

  Malta

  Manassas Gap Railroad

  Manchester

  Manchester, Virginia

  Manchuli

  Manchuria

  Manin, Daniele

  Mannoury, General Michel-Joseph

  Mantua

  Mao Zedong

  Marietta, Georgia

  Marne battles

  Marseille

  Martinsburg, razing of

  Mattelart, Armand

  Meade, General George

  mechanical transport (MT)

  Menzies, Donald

  Mesopotamia

  see also Iraq

  Messines Ridge

  Metz

  Meuse, river

  Mexican War

  Midland South Western Junction Railway

  ‘military revolution’

  Milner, Sir Alfred

  Minden

  missile trains

  Mississippi, river

  Mitchel, General Ormsby

  Mitchell, Allan

  Modane

  Moltke, General Helmuth von (elder)

  Moltke, General Helmuth von (younger)

  Mons

  Mont Cenis tunnel

  Montebello, battle of

  Morgan, General John

  Morley, John

  Morning Post

  Moscow

  circular railway

  and French invasion

  and German invasion

  Moselle, river

  Mosul

  motor cars

  Mukden

  mules

  Mulhouse

  Munich Agreement

  Murmansk

  Murten, battle of

  Myitkynia

  Nancy

  Nanteuil tunnel

  Napier, General Sir Charles

  Napier, Sir Robert

  Naples

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  defeat and exile

  invasion of Russia

  Napoleon III, Emperor

  Napoleonic Wars

  narrow gauge railways

  Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad

  Natal

  National Railroad Administration

  NATO

  navvies

  needle gun

  Netherlands (Holland)

  Nettancourt-Dugny railway

  New Orleans

  New York

  Newcastle, Duke of

  Newcastle

 

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