Military, Military Railways

Mark Smithers    [Publisher:  Pen and Sword  2016]    Hardback    214 pages

A well researched and comprehensive history and description of the Woolwich Arsenal railway network, from inception up until its final demise in 1967. Locomotive matters are particularly wel covered, both standard and narrow gauges, the well produced book including many photographs and scale drawings.

Nick McCamley    [Publisher:  Folly Books  2014]    Softback    302 pages

Originally published by Leo Cooper in 1998, this was Nick's first book to describe the development of large underground ammunition storage depots before the Second World War. Built on an enormous scale, locally within a network of interconnected Bath stone workings below the Wiltshire countryside, part of which remained in use into the Atomic Age.

L G Warburton    [Publisher:  Crecy  2012]    Hardback    184 pages

An account of the LMS as an organisation as it entered and went through the war, describing the various measures taken, the operational difficulties, new railway works, the damage sustained and the huge build up of men ans materials that preceded D day. Well illustrated throughout and much more than a regurgitation of previous accounts and 1944 booklets, slightly let down by some absolutely howling typos on the rear cover blurb though, as far as I can see the written text is not similarly afflicted.