Motor

Did Sgt Salvatore 'Bud' Walcott, an American who served as a Spitfire pilot with the RAF in 1942, avoid flying to Malta, the most bombed place on earth - did he desert?

John Dedman examines the coaching stock found on Britain's railways through an intriguing collection.

How a small British caravan firm became one of the UK's biggest producers of leisure vehicles.

A great historian's masterful account of the origins of air power in the RAF.

In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of US law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar's letters from the 1850s, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities.

Perfect for coffee tables, lakefront cabins, and boat lovers' bookshelves, Queen of the Lakes tells the story of each of the ships that has been honoured with the title "Queen of the Great Lakes".

'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic circle.

Featuring an array of previously unpublished images Royston Morris documents the world of railway maintenance vehicles and equipment.

In this book, aviation historian David Oliver covers the little-known flying-boat legacy of the Second World War.

Britain's narrow gauge railways are host to some of the oldest, most charming, varied and extraordinary locomotives to be found anywhere. This book is a fascinating survey of these appealing engines.

The rip-roaring autobiography of Steve Parrish, champion motorcyclist, truck racer and motorsport commentator.

Dscribes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. Alfred Mierzejewski presents a broad-based, original study of German wartime industry and transportation, and of Allied air force planning and intelligence, including the first complete analysis in English of the German National Railway.