In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys...
This book analyzes how the transformation of the European political economies - stretching from the crisis after German re-unification and through the Great Recession - has influenced the social models, employment, and inequality in Western Europe.
"Delivers many a valuable insight. Indispensable reading for everybody interested in the recent history of European labor." · Labor History"Anyone looking for an in-depth, up-to-date and balanced account of trade unions in Europe,...
Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, with a roving brief to inspect security arrangements, would not be the working...
A true tale for happy disciples of adventure, history and the elephant. Tells of the wartime Burmese rescue of Indian Army soldiers, British civilians and their Indian servants from the pursuing Japanese, by a 53yr old decorated WW1 pilot and 20 elephants...
The Off-Broadway hit musical Godspell became a worldwide cultural phenomenon in 1972 when, just over a year after its award-winning emergence on stages around the world and with the Top 20 Billboard hit "Day by Day," Columbia Pictures decided...
New railway mystery set in 1911 and featuring detective Jim Stringer. The fifth in the series, which increases in sales with every new volume. 'The period detail is wonderful, the resourceful Stringer and the strong-willed Lydia are appealing characte...
A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling Edwardian railway detective, Jim Stringer. Jim's faltering career in the railway police...
In York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He tells Jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a...