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The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914

by Edwin A. Pratt

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The extent to which railways are being used in the present War of the Nations has taken quite by surprise a world whose military historians, in their accounts of what armies have done or have failed to do on the battle-field in the past, have too often disregarded such matters of detail as to how the armies got there and the possible effect of good or defective transport conditions, including the maintenance of supplies and communications, on the whole course of a campaign.In the gigantic struggle now proceeding, these matters of detail are found to be of transcendant importance. The part whic...

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