Key Books

Classic British Motorcycles: An Illustrated History From its origins at the turn of the 20th century, British motorcycle manufacturing developed to...

Canadian Pacific in the Rockies The Canadian Pacific Railway was built to unite all the Canadian Provinces with a transcontinental line running fro...

B-17G Flying Fortress The B-17 Flying Fortress was conceived by the well-known US aviation designer and manufacturer Boeing during the 1930s, princ...

Class 70s In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and fuel-efficient locomotives. The new...

Czech and Slovak Railways: Three Decades of Change, 1990–2020s The Czech Republic and Slovakia emerged as independent countries in 1993, as joint ...

Hungarian Arms and Armour of WW2 Between the world wars, Hungary was a relatively small country aiming to recover territory lost because of World W...

Aircraft of Red Flag: The Ultimate Air-to-Air Combat Exercises Red Flag is the world’s premier air-to-air combat exercise. Run by the US Air Force ...

Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by the Ethiopian government with the assistance of western airlines. With a fleet of war-...

Mustang: The Untold Story The North American Mustang is one of the most well-studied aircraft. However, much of what is commonly understood about i...

Fall of the Luftwaffe in Colour Meticulously researched over the course of 20 years, this colour rendition of the Luftwaffe’s Eagles in defeat accu...

HSTs: The Western Region From the late 1970s, for more than 40 years, the High-Speed Train (HST) was the mainstay of express services for many tra...

Avro Vulcan: The Early Years, 1947–64 Advances in aerodynamics and jet engine technology after World War Two led to the RAF requesting a bomber tha...

BR: From Green to Blue A fascinating but much overlooked era for the modern traction enthusiast is the changeover from the old British Railways gr...

German Tanks of World War Two In World War Two, the German army deployed a wide variety of tanks in many different variants and with many forms of...

Garuda Indonesia On 26 January 1949, Garuda Indonesia was officially established as Indonesia’s government-owned flag carrier. To begin with, the ...

Highland Railways: Four Decades of Diesel Traction North of Perth Set against a backdrop of Scotland’s Highlands, this book illustrates the area’s ...

Hawker Typhoon Although first designed as a fighter, during the fighting in and over Europe during 1944 and 1945, the Hawker Typhoon gained a trem...

Fairey Firefly A portrait of one of the Royal Navy’s most effective aircraft; the Fairey Firefly, two-seater, strike-fighter, emerged from a troub...

British Multiple Units Multiple units are the unsung heroes of the modern railway system. Their many advantages include higher capacity, less trac...

British Bombers of the 1970s and ’80s The mainstays of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) bomber force in the 1970s and ’80s were the distinctive Avro Vu...

Class 60s The Class 60 was the last British-built diesel locomotive design and 100, in total, went to Railfreight. Privatisation saw the class bei...

British Fighters of the 1970s and ’80s Two of the RAF s most memorable aircraft are the English Electric Lightning and the McDonnell Phantom. The ...

Devon’s Railways: North and East of the County Following the routes of the two main lines that enter Devon from the east, as well as exploring the ...