Description
| Product ID: | 9783631818299 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | Studies in History, Memory and Politics |
| Title: | Polish State Railways as a Mode of Transport for Troops of the Warsaw Pact |
| Subtitle: | Technology in Service of a Doctrine |
| Authors: | Author: Zbigniew Tucholski, Marek Ciesielski |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Military history, Transport industries, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, The Cold War, Military history, Railway transport industries, Poland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The book deals with the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. The author analyses both technical and operational issues related to railway military transportation in a historical perspective. The subject of the book is the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. Analysing both technical and operational issues related to railway military transportation in a historical perspective, the author presents the history of the military transportation service of the Polish Army and provides a detailed characteristics of the organizational structure, equipment and tasks of the military transportation units and railway troops. The book also deals with rail transports of the Soviet Army on the Polish State Railways. The work is not only the result of archival queries and interviews with retired officers of the military transportation service but also field research of railway infrastructure. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-15 |
