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• Great Continental Railway Journeys: Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £12.95   |  Saving you £17.04 (131.58%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo journeys through a prosperous pre-war Europe of emperors and kings, pomp and elegance. A continent whose industrialists, factories and mines had created wealth, whose scientists and engineers were discovering and constructing the marvellous and whose artists were challenging old ways, whilst intellectuals plotted revolution. This early 20th century handbook opened up an exotic world to the Edwardian tourist; fr.

• Railways of The Great War with Michael Portillo | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £21.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this five part series for BBC2, Michael Portillo marks the centenary of the First World War by discovering the central role the railways played in securing victory, repatriating the dead and wounded, and feeding the insatiable appetite for weaponry and supplies that the theatre of war demanded. This is a story of how a British invention that brought trade, travel and prosperity in peacetime became an engine of war. Michael will track down the fascinating, emotional and sometimes tragic s.