Key Books

Soviet-Era Airliners When the Soviet Union fell in December 1991, there were close to 3,500 assorted Soviet-built airliners that could be deemed o...

Class 47s: From Inverness to Penzance 1982–85 The Class 47 diesel locomotives were a mainstay of British Rail with 512 built in the 1960s. They wer...

Cornish Rail: St Austell to Penzance This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the beautiful ...

The Railways and Britain’s Nuclear Industry This book is about the important role played by the nation’s railways in Britain’s nuclear industry and...

Bristol Lodekka NOTE: This book is a re-issue of the much-loved title Bristol Lodekka in colour. Lodekka buses first appeared in service in the l...

The Last of the Welsh Coal Trains Despite the substantial decline of coal mining in the UK over the last three decades, until recently, coal was s...

London Transport 1949–74 NOTE: This is a paperback reissue of the much-loved Twenty-Five Years of London Transport: 1949–74. London Transport was f...

Su-57 Felon In December 2020, the first Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed Felon by NATO, entered service with the Aerospace Forces, making it Russia’s most ...

Britain’s Military Helicopters A key component in any armed force, helicopters operate in a range of roles. Thanks to their ability to go anywhere...

Rail Freight: Wales and the Borders The changes to rail freight in Wales and the Borders since the 1980s have been dramatic and often the result o...

Surviving D-Day Tanks in Normandy This guide examines the surviving World War Two tanks, tank turrets and other armoured fighting vehicles current...

Avro 748 The 748 was a highly successful commercial airliner, and since the 1960s had been the go-to aircraft to open new air routes in many corner...

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

The Go-Ahead Group: The First 25 Years NOTE: This is a paperback reissue of the much-loved The Go-Ahead Group. Go-Ahead began life as the Gateshea...

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

Railways of Central Scotland 2016–20 The last two decades have seen many changes to the railways of Central Scotland with different ownership of p...

Western Class Locomotives Unusually for a large class of locomotives, all Western Class locomotives had the same prefix. They were designed by and...

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...

Land Rover Series One 1948–58 The Land Rover was a post-war marvel, a vehicle that helped change the face of motoring on and off-road around the w...

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-...