At the library, this book was on the new arrival shelf, and I immediately checked it out. I especially remember the train scenes, both from Zhivago's long journey with his family - in a cattle car and through the Russian winter - and from the armored train the Trotsky-type-character used.
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The movie Dr Zhivago came out when I was in high school, I saw it at the theater, and images from that film have stayed with me ever since. Like the author's previous railway histories, it focuses on the personalities, as well as the political and economic events, that lay behind one of the most extraordinary engineering triumphs of the nineteenth century.more He also explores the crucial role the line played in both the Russian Civil War -Trotsky famously used an armoured carriage as his command post - and the Second World War, during which the railway saved the country from certain defeat. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of the vastness of our world and hints at the hardships that were endured in its construction.Ĭhristian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of the vastness of ou It is the world's longest railway line.
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