Train travel always leads to great adventures; the countryside, like a moving picture show, unrolls itself before one's eyes. One is transported to the wild places of earth - forest, mountain, desert; and always there is the counterpoint between life within the train and life without. Train travel, being both constrictred in time and space, magnifies character, intensifies relationships, unites the disparate. Ordinary people become extra-ordinary, larger then life; and in the knowledge that they will not meet again, expansive, confiding, intimate. A BOOK OF RAILWAY JOURNEYS is a collection of Ludovic Kennedy's favourite train-journey literature. The anthology takes us on a round-the-world tour, through 155 years of train travel. It conjures up grand old trains and historic journeys; recalls horrific wartime adventures and spectacular crashes; and dwells on the romance of rail travel - its most unlikely encounters and unexpected events.

A Book of railway journeys

Business & Money

Kennedy, Ludovic

Industries

Collins

Re-creates the social and political climate of the time and dramatically re-evaluates the roles of the police, the judiciary, and others

The AIRMAN AND CARPENTER: The Lindbergh Case and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

HarperCollins, Publishers

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismark, then the most formidable fighting ship afloat, escaped into the Atlantic, posing a terrible threat to the convoys that kept Britain supplied. This book gives a first hand account of the pursuit and sinking of the Bismark.

Pursuit The Sinking of the Bismarck

Fontana

A Book of Railway Journeys

Naval officer, historian, Liberal politician, newscaster, television presenter and interviewer, documentary-maker, writer, campaigner against miscarriages of justice, all these aspects of Ludovic Kennedy's career are covered in his autobiography.

On My Way to the Club

Professionals & Academics

Re-creates the social and political climate of the time and dramatically re-evaluates the roles of the police, the judiciary, and others

The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptman

Penguin??Books

The kidnapping and murder of airman Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindbergh's infant son stunned the nation in 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, an illegal alien from Germany with a criminal record, was tried, convicted, and executed for what came to be known as "the crime of the century." Ludovic Kennedy's detailed account of the investigation and trial reveals a shocking array of perjury, cover-up, manufactured evidence, and inept legal work, pushed through in a lynch-mob atmosphere. His compelling book leaves readers with grave doubts about the American criminal justice system and little doubt as to the wrongful conviction of Hauptmann.

Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann (HBO movie tie-in)

History

Americas

All in the Mind: A Farewell to God

Ludovic Kennedy is one of our most distinguished writers and broadcasters. In his new book he explores the question being asked as we approach the end of the second millennium of Christianity - are we any longer justified in interpreting what we call God as an autonomous, independent, sentient being? Or has the time come to recognise him in the way we recognise all history's gods, as images created and sustained by the human mind to meet human needs? The author examines the origins of gods from the earliest times, questions the reliability of both Old and New Testaments, and records the growth of European atheism from before the Reformation to the present day. Interspersed with this, Ludovic Kennedy offers revealing and often witty insights into how his own upbringing affected his thinking; and in a final, moving chapter, tells how he has found his own way to spiritual fulfilment.

World

Hodder&Stoughton

Ludovic Kennedy explores the question of whether we are any longer justified in interpreting what we call God as an autonomous, sentient being, or whether the time has come to recognize him as we do all history's gods - as images created by the human mind to meet human needs.

Great Railway Journeys of the World

PALIN, Michael

Robson, Eric

Thompson, Brian

Wood, Michæl

Frayn, Michael

E.P. Dutton, Inc.

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A Book of railway journeys

The AIRMAN AND CARPENTER: The Lindbergh Case and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann

Pursuit The Sinking of the Bismarck

A Book of Railway Journeys

On My Way to the Club

The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptman

Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann (HBO movie tie-in)

All in the Mind: A Farewell to God

All in the Mind: A Farewell to God

Great Railway Journeys of the World