Key Books

Lynx: The Final Year in French Service When introduced in 1978, the Westland Lynx offered a massive improvement over the helicopters then in servi...

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 ...

York Independents Eastern Operators This book, containing over 150 photographs, many in colour, tells the story of stage bus companies, including ...

Allied Aircraft of D-Day The 1944 Allied invasion of France was a combined effort with land- and sea-based forces supported by a huge aerial task f...

The Forgotten American Volunteer Group While volumes have been devoted to the legendary Flying Tigers, the ultimate American Volunteer Group, anoth...

International Passenger Locomotives Since 1980 As traditional locomotive haulage declined in the UK and many enthusiasts’ favourite classes were wi...

Daimler Coaches in Colour The Daimler Company was one of the oldest established builders of PSV chassis in the United Kingdom and enjoyed a reputat...

British Ground-Attack Aircraft of the 1970s and ’80s The SEPECAT Jaguar and Hawker Siddeley Harrier played critical ground-attack and tactical reco...

British Aircraft of World War One A photographic guide to modern survivors, replicas and reproductions. During the course of the World War One, the...

F-111: Fort Worth Swinger At the time of its introduction into service, the F-111 was a revolutionary aircraft and was, without doubt, extremely p...

The World's Last Steam Trains China was the last country in the world to manufacture and operate steam locomotives. By the early 1980s, there were ...

Land Rover Series II/IIA A highly illustrated portrait of the Land Rover Series II/IIA of 1958–71, by the editor of Classic Land Rover magazine. ...

Buses Yearbook 2021 Buses Yearbook is an annual publication linked to the monthly Buses Magazine and has been published in various guises every yea...

Cornish Railways: Saltash to St Austell This, the first of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the changing ...

Loco-Hauled Passenger Trains Since the 1980s This highly illustrated look at locomotive-hauled trains across four decades features a wide variety o...

Dassault Super Etendard The Dassault Super Etendard had a remarkable career. It was a humble aircraft that was often faced with thankless and diff...

Land Rover Series III The Series III Land Rover, an updated Series IIA, was launched in 1971 and offered an amalgamation of cosmetic and engineeri...

Air-to-Air Refuelling Aircraft Modern strategists talk about force multipliers, and for air operations, air-to-air refuelling is without doubt the...

RAF Aircraft of the Cold War 1970–90 A unique illustrated look at the Cold War aircraft flown by the RAF as seen from the cockpit. The Cold War saw...

Germany’s Railways Germany was re-unified in 1990. For the country’s rail system, the complex task of unifying two networks with very different rol...

Diesels in East Yorkshire This photographic journey illustrates East Yorkshire’s fascinating passenger and freight trains, railway infrastructure,...

De Havilland Comet NOTE: This is a new edition of Aeroplane magazine’s De Havilland Comet   In the latter half of World War Two, the War Cabinet sa...

Jet: The Engine that Changed the World The invention of the jet engine had a profound effect on the world. Commercial jet aircraft revolutionised t...