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Railways in the First World War, Volume 2 book cover

1st Edition

Railways in the First World War, Volume 2

Edited By Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin Copyright 2026
240 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book, the second in a two- volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective. Although the First World War (1914– 1918) has been studied extensively from virtually every angle, the... Read more

Part 1: On the Fronts

1. The Role of the Railways in the German Army’s Operations on the Eastern Front (September to November 1914)
Jan Szkudliński

2. Reassessing the Means of Transport Behind the Habsburg Frontlines: From Arteries to an Infrastructural Network of Transport Lines
Thomas Edelmann

3. Trains on the Balkan and Eastern Fronts: Front Lines in Hungary During the Great War Between 1914 and 1916
Csaba Sándor Horváth

4. The Military Railways of the Salonika Front
Henry Jacolin

Part 2: Beyond Europe: Global Railway War

5. Railway Defensive Measures in Egypt in World War I
Walter Rothschild

6. The Grand Trunk Canadian’s US Rail-Sea Transportation Hub During World War I
George S. Carhart

Part 3: In the Trains

7. The Role of the Officers of the Hungarian Royal State Railways (MÁV) Between 1914 and 1920
Katalin Péterffy-Cserháti

8. The Burden on the Railways and the Repatriation of the Dead During the Great War: The Experience of the Russian Empire
Nikolai Rodin

9. A Perspective of the Romanian Railways in the Commemorative Literature of the First World War: The Disaster of Ciurea, 13 January 1917
Dorin Stanescu

10. Railways and the Everyday Life of Prisoners of War in the Russian Empire During the First World War
Olga Zaslavskaya

Part 4: After the War

11. The Superintendent for the Return of Railway Materials
Dirk Hainbuch

12. Railway Changes and Its Effects Along the Austrian-Hungarian Border After WWI
Péter Kalocsai

13. Getting Czechoslovakia on Track: Gaining Control of the Railways in the Border Regions of the Czech Lands After Independence in 1918
Tomáš Nigrin

14. The Reconstruction of the Steam Engine Terminals in Northern France After the First World War
Laura Lalana Encinas, José Luis Lalana Soto, and Luis Santos y Ganges

Part 5: Aftermath: A Long Run View

15. In the Wake of the First World War, a New Framework for Railway Unification in Europe: From a German-Led Central European Railway Association to the Foundation of the Union International des Chemins de Fer (UIC) Under French Umbrella
Paul Veron

Biography

Andrea Giuntini teaches Economic History at the Marco Biagi Department of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). His publications include La Grande Guerra e le ferrovie in Italia (2017). He is the President of the International Railway History Association.

Henry Jacolin has served as a French diplomat throughout the world and was ambassador in Bosnia- Hercegovina between 1993 and 1995 during the war. His publications include L’ambassadeur et le siège: Sarajevo 1993– 95 (2018) and many journal articles about railways in Eastern Europe. He was the President of the International Railway History Association from 2008 to 2019.

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