
Combat Trains
Date de parution : 26 novembre 2015
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Nazi Railways Nazi Germany boasted that its locomotives were faster and more innovative, and this programme examines that claim by looking at the "flying trains".... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | The Death Railway Veterans and historians of the Thai-Burma railway tell the story of its construction. Built to supply Japan's invasion of India, it cost thousands... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Ambulance Trains In the 19th century weapons became more sophisticated and more deadly, and the results were higher casualties with devastating wounds. Trains were... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | The First Railroad War During the American Civil War the nature of conflict changed fundamentally. Both Union and Confederate Generals used trains to bring thousands of... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Precious Cargo Four railway journeys that changed modern history: 24 year-old Winston Churchill boarded an armoured train during the Boer War hoping for a... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Secrets & Lies The strategic importance of trains has resulted in many elaborate schemes and methods being devised to destroy them. Historian Neil Faulkner tells... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | World War One The story of the trench warfare of the First World War is well known. What is less well known is that the efficiency of the railway networks of both... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | World War Two: The Home Front Between 1939 and 1945 war came to Britain's railways. By now an established technology, in the Second World War trains operating in Britain came... |