ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Fire and Steam' tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. Reviews A marvellously informative, entertaining and rightly partisan book... that has given me more pleasure than any I can remember in quite a while.Sunday TimesExpertly explored and explicated, Wolmar never forgets the human dimension... A beautifully written, detailed (but never anoraky) history of two centuries of life on the iron road.Daily Telegraph - Judith FlandersChristian Wolmar brings the...Read More