David Wragg has published several highly praised books on railway
history, and he produced a textbook for the old Chartered Institute
of Transport. He has also written on railways for the Sunday
Telegraph, The Spectator, The Scotsman, and the Yorkshire Post. His
Wartime on the Railways was reviewed by Rail as 'very readable' and
by Railways Illustrated as 'as a fascinating insight and also an
important record', and Railways Illustrated chose his Southern
Railway Handbook as 'Book of the Month'.
One of his most recent publications is The Historical Dictionary of
Railways in the British Isles. He is also well known as a writer of
military history and provide the British, Australian, Canadian and
New Zealand material for On Seas Contested- The Seven Great Navies
of the Second World War, published in 2010 by the Naval Institute
Press in the United States and which won the Stonebooks award for
The Best Non-Fiction book on World War II to have been published
that year.'
"Important for those interested in Naval Aviation, the Royal Navy and sea power in the twentieth century."-- "The NYMAS Review"
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