William Lowell Putnam Livres

Focusing on the engineering feats of major railroad tunnels across North America, this book chronicles their development from the 1850s to the early 1960s. It highlights significant projects such as the Hoosac Tunnel and Moffat Tunnel, examining the motivations behind their construction and the engineers involved. Enhanced by over 50 photographs and a glossary of railroad construction terms, the narrative offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and innovations in tunnel building during this pivotal era in transportation history.

Germany's merchant Marine fleet--the second largest in the world prior to 1914--played an unintended but decisive role in that nation's defeat in World War I. There were those ships that went to war for the Kaiser on the high seas, those that stayed at home or otherwise played no significant part in the conflict, and those which were commandeered (mostly in 1917 and by the United States) and used against Germany. This is a well illustrated history, both practical and romantic, of the association each ship may have had with famous people and events of the war, and of the fates of the ships that comprised that fleet.