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Binding: Hardcover

Pages: xiii + 400 + maps

Top Ten Award Winner

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See also other edition(s):
   John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2002 - Hardcover
   John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2003 - Softcover
   Harvard University Press, 2004 - Softcover

See also more books from:
   Jon Latimer

See also more books on the same topic(s):
   Agheila to Gazala to Alamein, 1942
   Second Battle of Alamein, 1942

See also references to this book:
   Reference in news archive June 2002
   Reference in news archive October 2002
   Reference in book review/survey January 2003
   Reference in news archive November 2003
   Reference in book review/survey January 2005

Feedback from visitors

Feedback from Nick Beale on Saturday, 14 December 2002

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I really hesitate to criticise this site's reviews, which are always good (and incredibly well-informed) reading.

However, I think you misjudged John Latimer on one small point: the
British rail gauge. The distance between the two rails of a pair is the same in Britain as on the continent but the "loading gauge" is narrower. As I dimly understand it - I have NO expertise in railway matters - this means that there is less clearance between two trains passing on adjoining tracks and less space provided in tunnels and on bridges to permit the passage of wide loads.

I gather that this gives mainland European railways a great deal more flexibility and potential than British ones when it comes to the transport of large loads (includingtanks).

It all sounds a bit like the wingspan of the Short Stirling bomber being specified as a few inches less than the door width of the standard pre-war RAF hangar.

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