Format:
1 Online-Ressource (443 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783631829660
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9783631829677
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9783631829653
Series Statement:
Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in history, memory and politics Volume 35
Uniform Title:
Polskie Koleje Państwowe jako środek transportu wojsk Układu Warszawskiego
Content:
developing the concept of military railway use; Red Army military transport in the final stages of the Second World War – transport-based security for Red Army operations in Belarus and the Vistula-and-Odra Region; reconstructing, organizing and developing the headquarters of military transport in the years 1944–1962; preparing the Polish State Railways network for a military conflict as part of Warsaw Pact strategic plans; military transports; military railway sidings and military railways
Content:
The subject of the book is the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. Analysing both technical and operational issues related to railway military transportation in a historical perspective, the author presents the history of the military transportation service of the Polish Army and provides a detailed characteristics of the organizational structure, equipment and tasks of the military transportation units and railway troops. The book also deals with rail transports of the Soviet Army on the Polish State Railways. The work is not only the result of archival queries and interviews with retired officers of the military transportation service but also field research of railway infrastructure
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 413-422. - Register
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631818299
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3631818297
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 9783631818299
Language:
English
Keywords:
Polskie Koleje Państwowe
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Organisation des Warschauer Vertrages
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Militärtransport
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Geschichte 1944-1962
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Hochschulschrift
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Author information:
Tucholski, Zbigniew 1975-
