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Synopsis
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England.
Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
About the Author
Terry Coleman is a historian, novelist, and award-winning reporter. His books include biographies of Olivier, Nelson, and the history of British and Irish emigration, Passage to America. His novel Southern Cross was a worldwide bestseller.