The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0306831988 ISBN13: 9780306831980 Release Date: May 2024 Publisher: Hachette Books Length: 368 Pages Weight: 1.27 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2" The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert on trains and transportation They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomotive drivers, track-workers, conductors, porters, signalmen, and engine cleaners, they knew how to run trains. And their job was to bring them back to life.   The Liberation Line tells the thrilling story of the British and American railway engineers who, in the months after D-Day, worked around the clock and in great danger to rebuild the ravaged railways of Europe and keep the Allied forces fueled as they pushed on into Germany.  As territory was ta