Doctor Who? The Atomic Bomber Beeching and his War on the Railways.
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CJJJD6C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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TS said Cracking book, must read. As a fan of Cottrell's work on Gladio I approached this book with some curiosity because the subject matter is so different, but I was not disappointed or underwhelmed in any way. Cottrell's style flows so easily from acerbic to sardonic to languid that he could probably write about anything and make it interesting, amusing and significant.It would be cliche and inaccurate to say that this book veers from the sublime to the ridiculous, as there is very little of the sublime in the story. It is mostly a tale of rank incompetence and self-destruc
Cottrell brings in the long standing fatwa of British Airways and partner airlines to block high speed rail connections between the UK and much prized airline destinations in Europe.He makes the contrast between the French way of get up and go and the British method of muddle and confusion which led to the utterly botched model of railway privatisation. A key figure in this scheme was Doctor Who? - Doctor Richard Beeching - a physicist who it is revealed in this book for the first time helped to design the British A Bomb during his wartime work at top secret weapons establishment. The railway that he saw at death's door is now carrying more passengers annually than its entire previous history.So Beeching was wrong? Of course. Cottrell uses the Beeching cipher to explore the disasters of British airship adventures, the draw out motorway development saga, why t