SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT

By September 1944 the Third Reich was under constant attack by Allied bombers and suffering an on...

Wyndham Ward grew up with a determination to fly whatever the odds. Starting out as boy mechanic ...

Since the early days of motoring, car owners with an engineering background have customised produ...

There is still some romance attached to the idea of sea travel; cruising the world's oceans in lu...

A complete guide to the art of railway photography, written by an expert with 40 years of experie...

Written by his son-in-law, with unique access to personal records, this is the exciting biography...

For over twenty years the battlecruiser HMS 'Hood' toured the world as the most iconic warship in...

Prince Alfred, who was created Duke of Edinburgh in 1866 and became Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gothain 1...

The Panavia Tornado was designed as a multi-role combat aircraft to meet the needs of Germany, It...

Shellac and Swing! tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' from 1900-1955, when it hel...

The story of train operating company First Great Western whose performance rose from being the wo...

This series tells the story of all 7,364 men who were awarded the Knight's Cross, including the d...

The story of one of Britain's most distinguished RAF stations. Not as well-known as Biggin Hill, ...

The gripping story of 500 Squadron which was at the forefront of operations against the mighty Lu...

The de Havilland Vampire was the second of the RAF's first-generation post-WWII jets. It began as...

In the late 1930s the RAF constructed a new airfield, near the village of Acklington, Northumberl...

Formed in 1962, Status Quo first hit the charts in 1968 with `Pictures of Matchstick Men'. A run ...

In the early 1950s the United States wished to concentrate its defence resources on the developme...

The single-engine Junkers Ju 52 first flew in 1930. Designed and built by the Junkers Aircraft Co...

Canadian Pacific Steamships was a worldwide travel network that included great passenger ships. T...

This book follows the evolution of ocean liner design, its grandeur and occasionally its lower-cl...

41 Squadron is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons still in existence and has seen service from the F...

Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children ...

Soviet bombers were a varied lot during the Second World War, ranging from single-engined biplane...

This is the story of the British horror film, with biographies of the stars, directors, and film ...

On 12 August 1915 the 1 5th Battalion Norfolks advanced on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on the Suvla Plain...

An extensive and highly detailed account of the Reign of King Henry VI. Over, 1,000 pages of scho...

My Eyes Have Seen the Glory is a match-by-match, blow-by-blow, superbly illustrated account of Ma...

There is a great parallel between the great ocean liners and the great skyscrapers-a fascinating ...

This fascinating new history follows the course of Japan's ultimately unequal struggle against th...

'ABBA Song by Song' takes a detailed look at every single song by Swedish supergroup ABBA. All of...

In its heyday a journey over the Ruabon to Barmouth line was officially described by the Great We...

Yards, crofts, ginnels and lanes are found in many northern towns. Kendal's yards are special and...

The definitive history of this famous Kent air fair

This highly detailed, yet accessible battlefield guide takes the reader on a fascinating journey ...

Known for the London bomber of WW1, Gotha also built successful seaplanes. During WW2, Gotha buil...

This book covers the period between the creation in 1936 of Fighter Command and the end of WWII. ...

A compelling, fresh account of the battle of Rorke's Drift, featuring an array of previously unpu...

The Lavochkin fighters remain little known in the West, although with the Yakovlev fighter series...

RAF Liberators over Burma provides an insight of operational flying in the Far East, including an...

Founded in 1925 in Warnemünde, Arado-Flugzeugwerke, from the outset, produced civil aircraft as w...

During the plunging temperature of the early Cold War years the RAF found itself increasingly in ...

Women have had a significant presence in the circus since Patty Jones first performed in 1768 wit...

Fighters of the Dying Sun

Imperial Austria weathered the year of revolutions in 1848 when Ferdinand abdicated in favour of ...

The 3rd century was a turbulent and testing time for the Empire. This work looks at the new style...

An informative and personal account of a young man's flying experiences during WW2. Growing up in...