Key Books

The Hornby Magazine Yearbook has become the go-to annual for the model railway enthusiast. This Collector's Edition hardback version of the 16th a...

Air France At 90: France’s Largest Airline Founded in 1933, Air France is that country’s largest airline with 211 aircraft at its disposal, compris...

Railways of Central Scotland: 40 Years of Change The last 40 years have witnessed wholesale upheaval in terms of motive power, rolling stock and in...

Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines is one of the world’s longest serving and most successful carriers. With a fleet of more than 900 aircraft serving ...

El Al The history of El Al, the Israeli national flag carrier, dates back to September 1948, when a former Israeli Air Force C-54B-15-DO Skymaster ...

Rossendale Transport to Rosso: The Last 10 Years of Municipal Buses Motor bus operation in the Rossendale Valley boroughs of Haslingden and Rawtens...

Britain’s railways have arguably never faced more uncertainty. With rail reform still on hold, the cancellation of HS2 announced, and passenger rev...

London Buses: Review of 1998 A quarter of a century ago, the red bus fleets of the former London Buses Ltd (LBL) were privatised. By 1998, the resu...

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 McDonnell Douglas was formed in 1967 when the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, the company that produced the F-4 Phantom sup...

Luftwaffe Bombers of World War Two A handful of German manufacturers dominated the market to design and build bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe of ...

Railways of Asia: Singapore and Malaysia During the last quarter of a century, the railways of Singapore and Malaysia have experienced extensive ch...

The Glacier Express: An Iconic Railway Journey Through the Swiss Alps Travelling a distance of 180 miles across the central Swiss Alps, this iconic...

RAF FIGHTERS IN THE FAR EAST: 1945–50 Despite the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the RAF was required to engage in further combat operations in...

Emirates Established four decades ago, Emirates is now the largest airline in the Middle East and widely recognised as one of the safest in the wor...

Air Forces of Latin America: Brazil As the largest country in Latin America, Brazil has a correspondingly extensive military aviation capability, w...

Viking Armies 840–1100 Setting out from their overpopulated homelands to find new places in which to live and farm, Scandinavian farmers, already e...

AC Electrics: 86, 87, 90 and DVTs Built in 1965–66, the 100 Class 86 electric locomotives worked passenger and freight trains on the newly electrif...

The British Rail Network, 1974–78 A decade on from the extensive changes to the rail network that were set in motion in the 1960s, Britain’s railw...

Behind the Cordon Air Raid Precautions/Civil Defence, Emergency Services and Civilian Interactions with Unexploded Bombs in World War Two World Wa...

Armoured Vehicles of the First Gulf War In 1990, Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded Kuwait in an unprovoked attack. He was motivated by Kuwait’s wealt...

Boeing 727   Two years before the introduction of the Boeing 707 into service in 1958, designers at Boeing began to work on a short-/medium-range a...

FV4005: Including Development of the FV215 and Anti-Tank Guided Missiles In September 1945, the unexpected appearance of heavily armoured Soviet JS...

USAAF Antisubmarine Operations in World War Two Historic Military Aviation Series German submarines were spotted surfacing on the East Coast of th...

Late Roman Army: AD 284-565 During the third century, the vast Roman Empire began to fracture and its once tightly controlled and exemplary civic, ...