Valentines Books

RAF Aircraft of the Battle of Britain A photographic guide to the surviving planes from the Battle of Britain. The number of restored and preserved...

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

British Sports Cars Britain has been responsible for some of the greatest sports cars ever built – the ‘Blower’ Bentleys of the 1920s, diminutive M...

The Blitz NOTE: This is a reissue of The Blitz bookazine. For months ‘The Few’ had defended Britain against the might of the Luftwaffe. Then, on Se...

Railways of Central Scotland: 2006–15 The years between 2006 and 2015 saw many changes in Central Scotland’s railways with projects such as the re...

Contact! Early Naval Aviation The development of US naval aviation was slow to start – the lack of interest and money threatened to end it before i...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

Lie in the Dark and Listen Book Often quoted as the model for the Steve McQueen character in "The Great Escape", by age 21, Ken had already trai...

The Modern Railway 2021 Produced annually by the team from Modern Railways the leading monthly rail magazine, The Modern Railway 2021 offers a comp...

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

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

Eagle's War Book Aircraft Carrier HMS Eagle 1939-1942 HMS Eagle was already old when war was declared in September 1939 and her new Swordfish b...

No Moon Tonight Book A Bomber Command classic depicting the deep feelings associated with the human cost of the air war in World War II. This is t...

If the Gods are Good Book The sacrifice of HMS Jervis Bay This is the enthralling account of one of the greatest and most heroic naval battles of W...

Military Aircraft Markings Book First published in the 1970s, Military Aircraft Markings has become an indispensable annual publication for any ...