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BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FLIGHT IN PROFILE
Chris Sandham-Bailey • FORMAT: HARDBACK 232MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-45-0 • PRICE: $39.99 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 4TH, 2021 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: JWMV3 The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) is a standing reminder of the heroism and sacrifice of countless British and Commonwealth aircrew who flew and fought during the Second World War. Formed at RAF Biggin Hill on July 11, 1957, as the Historic Aircraft Flight, today the BBMF’s incredible collection of aircraft includes six Spitfires, two Hurricanes, one of only two airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers in the world, a Douglas C-47 Dakota and two de Havilland Chipmunks. The Flight’s Second World War aircraft have survived against the odds to exist in flying condition today and this book charts each of their careers over the last seven decades or more. Author and illustrator Chris Sandham-Bailey has meticulously reproduced every known paint scheme worn by each of the aircraft – as well as gathering together an unrivalled collection of photographs to show how the appearance of the aircraft has changed. Never before have all of the BBMF aircraft liveries from the war’s end to the present day been catalogued and illustrated in one publication. This book is a must for anyone with an interest in the BBMF aircraft and their histories. • Charts the history of each aircraft in the famous flight • More than 300 profiles and rare photographs • Based on years of meticulous research by author Chris Sandham-Bailey
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BEECHING - THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE SIXTIES RAILWAY CLOSURES
Robin Jones
About the author: Robin Jones is the founding editor of Heritage Railway magazine, a monthly title devoted to railway preservation. A railway enthusiast since his early years, he was taken trainspotting at Widney Manor station in Solihull - on the Western Region route from Birmingham Snow Hill to Leamington Spa - during the last years of British Railways steam locomotives. Robin has had many books published, on subjects ranging from railways to history and travel.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 165MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-14-6 • RELEASE DATE: APRIL 10TH, 2020 • PRICE: $22.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: WGF Described as the most hated civil servant in Britain, it was half a century ago that Dr Richard Beeching was appointed as chairman of British Railways with one key directive - to cut the soaring losses. The 1950s had seen the start of a mass shift from public to private transport, as lorries, cars, buses and motorbikes replaced trains as Britain’s most popular means of travel. So often pilloried by the press and public for closing numerous picturesque and romantic country branch lines, leaving even many large towns cut off from the railway network, Beeching might also be seen as merely streamlining a process that was already under way. Back in the early Sixties, there were many who thought that not only were the days of steam locomotives numbered, but those of railways too, as mankind, leaping towards the first lunar landings, looked toward hovercraft and hovertrains as the transport of the future. Against the dynamic background of the greatest decade of change of the 20th century, Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones looks back at the forces that were shaping the railway’s fortunes, the Beeching Axe, its critics, aftermath and its repercussions today. Was Dr Beeching the villain of popular legend - or was he a hero who made Britain’s railways into a slimmer, leaner machine far more capable of tackling the challenges of the future? You decide! A complete account of the 1960s railway line closures and the man responsible. • Authoritative writing from Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones • Discover how Dr Richard Beeching shaped British railways • Critical analysis of a crucial turning point in the history of Britain’s rail network
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BEFORE ROCKET Anthony Dawson
About the author: Anthony has a life-time interest in history. He is a graduate of the University of Bradford (B.Sc Hons Archaeology) and was for three years a research student at the University of Leeds where he earned an M.Res. He has written nearly a dozen books on early railways as well as several books and papers on the Crimean War. He has worked in museums, and was a college lecturer (local history and archaeology). Anthony was also part of the team which operated the replica of Robert Stephenson’s Planet (October 1830) at the Science & Industry Museum, Manchester. He is now a freelance writer, and is a member of the Railway & Canal Historical Society. In his spare time volunteers at the National Railway Museum.
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK - 184MM X 248MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-25-2 • RELEASE DATE: MARCH 7TH, 2020 • PRICE: $19.99 • PAGES: 90 • BIC: WGF Rocket is perhaps one of the best-known railway locomotives in history. Entered by George and Robert Stephenson and Henry Booth for the Rainhill Trials of October 1829, Rocket was the outright victor and paved the way for the dominance of the steam railway as the major means of communication for the next hundred years or more. But Rocket was not ‘the first’ locomotive – that honour goes to the work of Cornishman Richard Trevithick, while the Middleton Railway saw the first commercial use of steam locomotives in 1812. This book sets out to chart the development of the steam locomotive from its birth with Richard Trevithick up to the momentous year of 1829, showing just how far the locomotive had come in a quarter of century, to go on to be the world-changing invention it became. • Discover the engines that ran before Stephenson’s famous Rocket was built • Chronicles the rivalry and competition between Britain’s earliest steam innovators • Fully illustrated with period drawings and modern photographs
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BREAKING THE LUFTWAFFE
ULTRA AS A WEAPON OF THE USAAF
BREAKING THE LUFTWAFFE:
ULTRA AS A WEAPON OF THE USAAF Dan Sharp
About the author: Dan Sharp studied history at the University of Liverpool before beginning a career in journalism. Having spent several years as the news editor of a regional daily newspaper, he switched to motorcycle magazines. His previously published works on aviation have covered subjects ranging from German Second World War projects to Concorde. He lives in Nottinghamshire with
his wife and two children.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 165MM X 240MM
DAN SHARP
• ISBN: 978-1-911658-10-8 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 21ST, 2021 • PRICE: $22.99 • PAGES: 400 • BIC: JWMV3
The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park cracked the German Enigma code but how did the information they deciphered win the war? Breaking the Luftwaffe shows how the deciphered messages, known as ULTRA intelligence, informed almost every move of the USAAF’s Eighth Air Force bomber fleet from 1943 to the end of the war. Timely transmission intercepts told the Americans where and when Luftwaffe reinforcements would arrive so their airfields could be bombed, it revealed the exact location of hidden factories building the Me 262 jet fighter, it showed what targets the Germans would defend to the death and what they would allow to be destroyed. The fury and desperation of the Germans as the daylight bombing raids steadily throttled the Luftwaffe is graphically revealed in their own words via ULTRA intelligence. Historian Dan Sharp assesses the impact of the American bombing campaign as it followed the guiding light of ULTRA to the Luftwaffe’s ultimate destruction. • Offers a unique insight into the motivations of the USAAF wartime bombing campaign • Based on original archival research • Includes text of German secret communications
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BRITISH RAILWAY DISASTERS Robin Jones
About the author: Robin Jones is the founding editor of Heritage Railway magazine, a monthly title devoted to railway preservation. A railway enthusiast since his early years, he was taken trainspotting at Widney Manor station in Solihull - on the Western Region route from Birmingham Snow Hill to Leamington Spa - during the last years of British Railways steam locomotives. Robin has had many books published, on subjects ranging from railways to history and travel.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 165MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-01-6 • RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 3RD, 2019 • PRICE: $22.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: WGF
This is the story of how Britain’s railway disasters, horrific though they may be, change the network for the better through the crucial lessons that are learned. It starts with fatalities on early mining tramways before the dawn of the steam age and takes the story up to the present day. While many of Britain’s worst tragedies are covered in depth, such as Quintinshill in 1915 and Harrow & Wealdstone in 1952, the book also looks at others that had resounding consequences for safety. • Full history of Britain’s deadliest rail crashes • Discover how rail network safety improved through crucial lessons learned • Authoritative writing from Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones
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BRUNEL’S BIG RAILWAY Robin Jones
About the author: Robin Jones is the founding editor of Heritage Railway magazine, a monthly title devoted to railway prreservation. A railway enthusiast since his early years, he was taken trainspotting at Widney Manor station in Solihull - on the Western Region route from Birmingham Snow Hill to Leamington Spa - during the last years of British Railways steam locomotives. Robin has had many books published, on subjects ranging from railways to history and travel.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK - 165MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-19-1 • RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 13TH, 2021 • PRICE: $22.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: WGF Engineering genius Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway was not only bigger, wider and faster than any other of its day, but linked London to New York via his great steamships from Bristol. His unique broad gauge ‘super railway’ also connected Paddington to Plymouth and Penzance, and for decades was one of the wonders of the world. More than two centuries on, many of his historic structures along the route have been given listed building protection so future generations can admire and enjoy them. This book looks at the history of the railway from London to Bristol and Brunel’s Great Western legacy that was to lead the company to even dizzier heights. • Authoritative writing from Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones • Discover the historic structures along the ‘super railway’ given listed building protection • Re-examines the history of the railway from London to Bristol
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COLD WAR INTERCEPTOR
Dan Sharp
About the author: Dan Sharp studied history at the University of Liverpool before beginning a career in journalism. Having spent several years as the news editor of a regional daily newspaper, he switched to motorcycle magazines. His previously published works on aviation have covered subjects ranging from German Second World War projects to Concorde. He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 222MM X 288MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-03-0 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 20TH, 2019 • PRICE: $39.99 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: HBTW The West was stunned when the Soviet Union dropped its first atomic bomb in August 1949 and a year later the Korean War showcased Russia’s incredible technological progress in the form of the MiG-15 - a fighter capable of besting anything the RAF had to offer at that time. In the wake of the Second World War, funding for the RAF’s Fighter Command had fallen away dramatically but now there was an urgent need for new jet fighters to meet the threat of Russian bombers head-on. Britain’s top aircraft manufacturers, including Hawker, English Electric, Fairey, Vickers Supermarine, De Havilland, Armstrong Whitworth and Saunders-Roe, set to work on designing powerful supersonic aircraft with all-new guided missile systems capable of meeting a Soviet assault and shooting down high-flying enemy aircraft before they could unleash a devastating nuclear firestorm on British soil. The result was some of the largest, heaviest and most powerful fighter designs the world had ever seen - and a heated debate about whether the behemoths should be built at all as guided weapons became ever more advanced. This is the story of Britain’s secret cold war fighter jet designs, fully illustrated with a host of drawings, illustrations and photographs. • Based on research from British wartime documents and archives • Lifts the lid on cutting edge 1950s jet and rocket fighter development • More than 200 rare photographs and drawings plus original artwork
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19 36 -20 20
The machines The magic The man Celebrating an industry great
COLIN SEELEY
James Robinson
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK - 169MM X 238MM • ISBN: 9781911658399 • RELEASE DATE: APRIL 1ST, 2020 • PRICE: $11.99 • PAGES: 50 There are some people who’ve done little. There are some people who’ve done a lot. There are others who’ve done more than that. Then there was Colin Seeley. He’d done more than pretty much everyone. Colin passed away just after his 84th birthday. He packed so much into his life, which began on January 2, 1936, when he was born in Kent, the only child of Percy and Hilda. By 20 Colin was running his own business, soon after he was racing, and just two years into his career, was a podium finisher at the IoM TT. Aged 30, he was a motorcycle manufacturer, then going on to all manner of other disciplines, including running car racing Formula One teams. Post that, he was a successful ace team manager and mentor to young riders, before going on to work for auctioneers Bonhams becoming one of the company’s foremost and most trusted consultants. During recent years, Colin had been a popular figure at classic events far and wide, often demonstrating period machines, eyes twinkling and lips smiling, enduringly positive, endearingly modest, and always full of enthusiasm. He pretty much did it all.
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DESIGNING THE T-34 Peter Samsonov GENESIS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOVIET
TANK
About the author: Peter Samsonov is a Canadian tank historian who runs the renowned Tank Archives blog. • FORMAT: SOFTBACK 184MM BY 248MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-30-6 • RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 6TH, 2019 • PRICE: $19.99 • PAGES: 90 • BIC: JWMV1
When the German army launched Operation Barbarossa – the invasion of the Soviet Union – on June 22, 1941, it was expecting to face and easily defeat outdated and obsolete tanks and for the most part it did, but it also received a nasty shock when it came up against the T-34. With its powerful gun and sloped armour, the T-34 was more than a match for the best German tanks at that time and the Germans regarded it with awe. German Field Marshal von Kleist, who commanded the latter stages of Barbarossa, called it ‘the finest tank in the world’. Using original wartime documents author and historian Peter Samsonov, creator of the Tank Archives blog, explains how the Soviets came to develop what was arguably the war’s most revolutionary tank design.
• Based on research from wartime documents and archives • Fascinating designs and photographs of the T-34 tank • Written by historian Peter Samsonov, curator of the Tank Archives blog • New profile artwork
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EAGLES OF THE LUFTWAFFE: FOCKE-WULF FW 200 CONDOR Matthew Willis • FORMAT: SOFTBACK 248MM X 184MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-65-8 • PRICE: $19.99 • RELEASE DATE: : SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2021 • PAGES: 116 • BIC: JWMV3 The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was conceived for peace but turned to a warlike purpose savaging convoys bringing vital supplies to Britain. The aircraft Churchill called “the scourge of the Atlantic” became synonymous with the struggle to supply the Allies by sea. As a truly long-range reconnaissance bomber, the Condor acted as the eyes and ears of the Kriegsmarine, while packing a powerful punch itself. As the Allies stepped up their efforts to address the vulnerability of their convoys to aerial reconnaissance and attack, however, the Fw 200’s weaknesses became ever more apparent. Naval aviation author Matthew Willis tackles the career of the feared aircraft, from its beginnings as a cutting-edge airliner, through its early development into a military transport and a maritime bomber and ‘spyplane’, including the addition of ever more armament and technology such as radar and the carriage of radio-controlled glider bombs. From the expanses of the Atlantic, via the freezing Arctic seas to the heat and dust of North Africa, the operational history of the Fw 200 is examined.
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The story of Germany’s infamous ‘scourge of the Atlantic’ maritime patrol aircraft Illustrated with rare photographs and new profile artwork Authoritative writing from naval aviation historian Willis
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EAGLES OF THE LUFTWAFFE: FOCKE-WULF FW 190 A, F AND G Dan Sharp
About the author: Dan Sharp studied history at the University of Liverpool before beginning a career in journalism. Having spent several years as the news editor of a regional daily newspaper, he switched to motorcycle magazines. His previously published works on aviation have covered subjects ranging from German Second World War projects to Concorde. He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 184MM BY 248MM
• ISBN: 978-1-911658-05-4
• RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 22ND, 2021 • PRICE: $19.99 • PAGES: 90 • BIC: JWMV3 When it appeared in the skies over Europe in 1941, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A was the best fighter in the world. It was more than a match for the best Spitfires the RAF could field and began shooting them down in ever-increasing numbers. Only the introduction of the Spitfire IX with its two-stage supercharged Merlin overturned its supremacy. Alongside the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Fw 190 is the iconic fighter of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. It was hugely adaptable and fought on nearly all fronts, proving to be a formidable opponent. The Fw 190 F and G fighter-bombers effectively replaced the Ju 87 Stuka in the ground-attack role in the west and provided the Luftwaffe with much-needed additional capability. The Fw 190 was used for the Mistel flying bomb combination and as a test aircraft for the Ruhrstahl X-4 wire-guided air-to-air missile, and in its Fw 190 A-8 and A-9 forms fought on the front line right until the bitter end. This book tells the story of the legendary fighter with previously unseen drawings and photos which shed new light on the aircraft’s origins. • Features unseen drawings and photos on the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 • Covers the complete wartime history of this front line fighter • Based on research from German wartime documents and archives around the world
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EAGLES OF THE LUFTWAFFE:
JUNKERS JU 87 STUKA Andy Saunders
About the author: Andy Saunders has been involved with historic aviation for over forty years and is well known in the world of aircraft preservation and restoration. His specialist area of interest is in the air war over Europe, 1939-1945. One of the cofounders of Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, and its first curator, Andy is also respected as a serious researcher, author, and editor and is a prolific contributor to the aviation press. He is passionate about flying and history, regularly travelling in search of historic aircraft and artefacts. He also acts as adviser or consultant to film and television companies, sometimes as on-screen contributor, and is editor of the German military history magazine, Iron Cross.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK - 288MM X 222MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-33-7 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 17TH, 2021 • PRICE: $19.99 • PAGES: 90 • BIC: JWMV3 The Junkers Ju 87 ‘Stuka’ was an aircraft with a single purpose – dive bombing the enemy. Attacking in this way had several advantages: it made the attacking aircraft more difficult to hit, it allowed pinpoint accuracy in the delivery of bombs and it struck terror into the hearts of anyone on the receiving end. After its early successes in the West, the Ju 87 went on to become a vital part of the war on the Eastern Front right up until the war’s end. In Eagles of the Luftwaffe: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, historian Andy Saunders offers a detailed profile of this famous warbird. • Detailed profile of the infamous dive-bomber • Discover how the 1930s Ju 87 remained on the front line throughout WW2 • Based on archive research by renowned type expert Andy Saunders
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ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING GENESIS AND PROJECTS Tony Wilson
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 248MM X 184MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-40-5 • PRICE: $19.99 • RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 6TH, 2021 • PAGES: 116 • BIC: JWMV3 Progress on the English Electric Canberra was the main topic of a report written by W E W ‘Teddy’ Petter on June 17, 1948, but a final paragraph headed ‘High Speed Fighter’ said, ‘Requirements for a high speed fighter are being sent to us ... There would probably be two or three prototypes attached to a successful design and a reasonable chance of production orders. Supersonic speeds would be required for short periods.’ This marked the beginning of the effort leading to production of the legendary Lightning fighter. English Electric Lightning Genesis and Projects examines how that effort evolved – focusing on the procurement process and the factors that drove decisions about the aircraft configuration and its weapon system. In particular, author Tony Wilson looks at how other procurement programmes influenced choices about the Lightning for good or ill. Between English Electric project numbers P1 and P34 there were 15 project numbers associated with the Lightning. Some refer to development steps in the aircraft’s core programme but others were studies to extend the aircraft’s capabilities. These designs are explored too along with proposed developments that were never given ‘P’ numbers. • The English Electric Lightning is one of Britain’s best-loved and most famous post-war jet fighters • Based on new research in the extensive English Electric archives held by BAE Systems • Includes previously unseen drawings from the Lightning’s development history
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F-15 EAGLE Bertie Simmonds
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-53-5 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JUNE 3RD, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: JWMV3
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is the undisputed king of fighter aircraft, scoring around 105 kills for zero losses in air-to-air combat. Designed as a pure air superiority machine, the Eagle has since become one of the best fighter-bombers in its class: the Strike Eagle. Since it entered service in 1976, around 1600 F-15s have been built for six air forces around the world. Fast and agile, the Eagle has been the defensive tip of the spear for the Free World. The Israelis blooded the Eagle in the Middle East when they first took delivery in 1979. Since then both fighter and strike versions have been in almost constant action, through Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and beyond in the war against terror. • The complete history of the USAF’s iconic cold war fighter • Fully illustrated throughout with rare photographs and drawings • Features interviews with F-15 pilots
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F-16 FIGHTING FALCON
Bertie Simmonds • FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-56-6 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: JWMV3 Sleek, futuristic and deadly – the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon was born from the crucible of the air war over Vietnam and the need for cheaper, simpler and more manoeuvrable fighter aircraft with which to combat the many thousands of Soviet-bloc supplied aircraft sold around the world. Back in the early 1970s the F-16 was the pinnacle of modern design, integrating a powerful turbofan engine and offering unrivalled manoeuvrability – thanks to its relaxed static stability and fly-by-wire system with computer control. Today’s F-16 Viper is light years away from the simple, lightweight point-defence fighter first envisaged, but it has evolved and matured into the finest and most exported fourth-generation combat aircraft around the world. This is its story. • The complete history of the American multirole fighter • Fully illustrated throughout with rare photographs and drawings • Features interviews with F-16 pilots
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FIFTH GENERATION FIGHTERS David Baker
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-59-7 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JULY 7TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: JWMV3
The latest jet fighters deceive, evade, confuse, lock-on to their targets and kill them without being seen, heard or detected. Pilots can increasingly put themselves outside their cockpit, peering far beyond visual range, leaving the aircraft to keep them out of harm’s way while they manage the mission. In Fifth Generation Fighters, author David Baker explains how net-centric warfare and sensor fusion takes the fight into the very heart of the weapons systems computer, tracking up to 100 hostiles and downing many beyond visual range. He also looks at how future fighters will connect to satellites, control swarms of unmanned combat air vehicles and plan the end-game for an air battle that has yet to begin. The clock is ticking – a fifth generation fighter war is coming! • Comprehensive overview of the latest jet fighters and their equipment • Author David Baker, editor of Spaceflight magazine, specialises in advanced defence technology • Fully illustrated throughout
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FLEET AIR ARM LEGENDS: FAIREY SWORDFISH Matthew Willis
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 248MM X 184MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-49-8 • PRICE: $19.99 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 19TH, 2021 • PAGES: 116 • BIC: JWMV3 Few aircraft encompass as many contradictions as the Fairey Swordfish – the legendary ‘Stringbag’ naval torpedo bomber was approaching antiquation at the start of the war yet struck mortal blows against some of the most powerful battleships in the Axis fleets. Naval Aviation historian Matthew Willis explores how modern technology such as radar kept the Swordfish effective in the early years of the war and enabled it to find and hit the Italian fleet at Taranto, and the Bismarck in the Atlantic, in circumstances where no other aircraft could have succeeded. When it was finally superseded in its main role with the Fleet, the Swordfish fulfilled vital roles protecting convoys from the U-boat menace. The story of the Swordfish’s service across the majority of theatres in WW2, from the hunt for the Graf Spee to the beaches of Normandy, is told here with never-before-published accounts from veteran aircrews. Includes 100+ historic photographs and unique images of the Royal Navy Historic Flight’s preserved aircraft. • The story of Britain’s most famous WW2 naval combat aircraft • Illustrated with rare photographs and new profile artwork • Authoritative writing from naval aviation historian Matthew Willis
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FLYING N A SCBROIANTSM SHARPE
FLYING SCOTSMAN Brian Sharpe
About the author: Former deputy editor of Heritage Railway magazine, Brian Sharpe is a railway photographer and writer based in Lincolnshire.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 165MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-02-3 • RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 16TH, 2019 • PRICE: $22.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: WGF
No 1472 was the third of a class of steam locomotives that was eventually to number 79 engines, and did not originally even carry a name. The Great Northern Railway A1 4-6-2 though, was the biggest express steam engine ever to have been seen in Britain at the time. It was chosen to be displayed at a major exhibition at Wembley in 1924, and for this it was given the name Flying Scotsman. It hauled the London & North Eastern Railway’s first King’s Cross-to-Edinburgh nonstop express in 1928. It was the first steam engine in the world to officially break the 100mph barrier. Flying Scotsman has now become the one steam engine in the world of which everyone knows the name, and which most people would even recognise. It was briefly the only main line steam engine running in the whole of Britain, and it has travelled across the Atlantic and across America. It has circumnavigated the globe, steamed across Australia, broken the record for a nonstop run with steam (again), and been sold for easily the highest price ever paid for a steam engine. In 2004, its ongoing 40 years of fame finally earned it a place in the National Railway Museum collection and, after an unprecedented fundraising campaign and a National Heritage Memorial Fund grant, the museum was able to clear the enormous debts of the engine’s then owning company and acquire Flying Scotsman for the nation, and for a British public which clearly holds the engines in high esteem. If it had not acquired fame, largely as a result of its name, in the 1920s and 1930s, then maybe Alan Pegler would not have had the enthusiasm to purchase it in 1963. If it had been scrapped, what would then have become Britain’s most famoust steam engine? And now it’s back. No-one expected it to take ten years of toil, but the National Railway Museum finally has an engine to be proud of. This book tells the story of the legend that is Flying Scotsman - the ultimate in British express steam design elegance.
FLYING SCOTSMAN
• Discover the story of the record breaking steam locomotive, the Flying Scotsman. • Authoritative writing from former Heritage Railway deputy editor Brian Sharpe • Stunning photographs of this historic engine
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HISTORY OF THE GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY Robin Jones
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 240MM X 165MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-61-0 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JULY 21ST, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGF The Great Central Railway is the only double track preserved steam railway in the world and its main focus is on the hugely popular modern day line running between Loughborough and Leicester North. Author Robin Jones, editor of Heritage Railway magazine, uses an incredible collection of images from Britain’s top railway photographers to showcase the very best of preserved steam running in an authentic setting. History has its place too with the formation of the original Great Central Railway, built in 1899 to connect the cities of Manchester, Sheffield and London, being explained and examined. Preservation sites set up elsewhere on the former Great Central line are also detailed including those at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Elsecar Heritage Railway and Dinting Railway Centre in Glossop.
• Authoritative writing from Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones • Features a collection of superb photographs • Explores the history of the railway up to the present day
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JOHN BURTONRACE THE MAN THE MAGIC AND THE MAYHEM Micheal Cowton
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 240MM X 165MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-41-2 • PRICE: $29.99 • RELEASE DATE: MARCH 27TH, 2020 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: WBB BG
JOHN
BURTON-RACE THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY
A prodigious talent stalked by controversy, celebrity with Michael Cowton chef John Burton-Race has always lived life on the THE MAN, THE MAGIC & THE MAYHEM edge, and remains nothing if not pragmatic. “I wear people down. I’m a bit of a basket case.” Born in Singapore in 1957 to a British diplomat father, BurtonRace helped the family chef while being exposed to global tastes and flavours that still influence his style of cooking. He worked under renowned chef Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons and when Blanc opened Le Petit Blanc in Oxford, he turned to Burton-Race to head the kitchen. Here the young, aspiring chef would win his first Michelin star. Three years later he opened his own restaurant, L’Ortolan in Berkshire. Awarded two Michelin stars, the achievement was repeated in 2000 at John Burton-Race Restaurant at London’s Landmark Hotel. Television viewers, however, bore witness to his mercurial nature in the fly-on-the-wall series French Leave and Return of the Chef, and an appearance on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here ended in disaster when his second wife closed his Devon restaurant while he was in the Australian bush. Possessed of an innate talent for self destruction, John Burton-Race is still driven, still complex, still controversial, still living life at 100 miles an hour. This is his story. • • • •
Details how John Burton-Race made his way to the top, becoming a Michelin-starred chef Biography about John’s personal life from his troubled childhood to his celebrated television shows and living life on the edge Includes a number of stand-out recipes from throughout John’s career Features rare photographs of the renowned chef
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LAMBRETTA & VESPA STREET RACERS Stuart Owen
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-60-3 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JULY 14TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGC Young scooter owners of the 1960s had a seemingly insatiable appetite for speed and power. Shops appeared offering performance tuning services for the first time and a new era of scootering dawned. The scene went underground in the 1970s but the release of Quadrophenia inspired a new wave of devotees going into the 1980s. The introduction of the TS1 cylinder kit for the Lambretta and the T5 Vespa by Piaggio took the tuning scene in a new direction. Now the pure Lambretta and Vespa street racer came to the forefront. Owners blew huge budgets and their stunning creations took these machines to a new level. Today the Lambretta and Vespa Street racer scene continues to thrive. Author Stuart Owen traces the development of Lambretta and Vespa tuning down the decades using dozens of rare period images and highlighting every significant technological milestone along the way. • Comprehensive guide to scooter street racer development from the 60s to the present • Fully illustrated throughout with rare period photographs • Detailed look at the key components and features that pushed street racer evolution
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LIFE AFTER COVID-19 LESSONS FROM PAST PANDEMICS
Bob Gordon FORMAT: HARDBACK 240MM X 165MM ISBN: 978-1-911658-77-1 PRICE: $22.00 PUBLICATION DATE: AUGUST 27TH 2020 PAGES: 200 There have been pandemics throughout the course of human history; they have savaged countries, undermined empires and killed countless individuals – often with drastic and unexpected consequences for the survivors. Life After COVID-19 investigates past epidemics and their aftermath, seeking to draw parallels with the world of today and examine how the world could look when this new contagion has finally receded. Author Bob Gordon starts by studying the Black Death (1347-1351), a bubonic plague pandemic that killed a third of Europe’s population, and traces its periodic re-emergence over the course of several centuries including, famously, in London in 1665-1666. He goes on to look at how Napoleon’s imperial ambitions were laid waste by yellow fever in Saint Domingue and typhus in Russia. Next ‘King Cholera’, the bane of the 19th century, is considered. A disease of immigration, it stalked across North America for decades causing untold horror. A century ago, the Spanish influenza pandemic ravaged a world already reeling after four years of conflict. Studying the course and aftermath of this disastrous pandemic offers the greatest insights into how a future COVID-19 endemic world might look. Recent pandemics mercifully averted, such as SARS, MERS and ebola, are also considered. The final chapters look at the current pandemic, its etiology and symptomatology. The current state of the search for therapeutics and vaccines is examined, while the aftershocks of COVID-19 are considered in a variety of fields – including the impact on retailers, the entertainment industry, airline travel, education and more.
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LOCOMOTIVES OF THE NATIONAL COLLECTION Robin Jones
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 240MM X 165MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-57-3 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JUNE 17TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGF Legendary steam railway locomotives such as Flying Scotsman, Mallard, Stephenson’s Rocket and City of Truro have been household names for generations and are now owned by the public. These are the locomotives that not only shaped global transport history but steered the evolution of the modern world, shrinking continents and making rapid transit between one-time faraway places an everyday occurrence affordable to all. The National Collection was amassed largely in the face of modernisation of the British railway network, when the introduction of diesel and electric locomotives in the Fifties led to the mass withdrawal and scrapping of many classic steam locomotive types. Officialdom decreed that examples should be preserved for posterity thus creating a fantastic legacy of locomotives big and small for future generations to relish. Locomotives of the National Collection, written by Heritage Railway magazine editor Robin Jones, looks at both the big named engines and the lesser-known workhorses, which richly deserve their place alongside them, all with their own stories to tell. • Authoritative writing from Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones • Profiles the National Collection’s famous engines including Flying Scotsman and Mallard • Explores the collection’s origins and looks ahead to its future
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MISSION TO MARS David Baker
About the author: David Baker worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle programmes between 1965 and 1990. He has written more than 100 books on space flight, aviation and military technology and is the former editor of Jane’s Space Directory and Jane’s Aircraft Upgrades. In 1986 he was made a member of the International Academy of Astronautics by NASA manned flight boss George Mueller and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the US Air Force Association. He received the 1998 Rolls-Royce Award for Aerospace Journalist of the Year and in 2005 he was a recipient of the Arthur C Clarke Award. In October 2017 he received the American Astronautical Society’s Frederick I. Ordway III award “for a sustained excellence in space coverage, through books and articles, as well as engagement in the early US space program”. David is currently the editor of Spaceflight, the monthly space news magazine of the British Interplanetary Society, of which he is also a Fellow, a lecturer and consultant.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 165MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-07-8 • RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 24TH, 2021 • PRICE: $25.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: PGS For as long as humans have gazed up at points of light in the night sky, the mysterious red planet Mars has held an irresistible fascination. As the planet in our solar system most likely to be capable of supporting life after Earth, many questions about its origin and evolution have arisen alongside speculation about its potential as a new home for migrating human colonists. Since 1964, Mars has been a magnet for fly-by spacecraft, orbiters, landers and roving vehicles. Plans have been laid to send astronauts on these routes pioneered by robots too - but the questions remain. Just what do we know about the Red Planet? Where has this knowledge come from? Can we really live there? This book tells the exciting story of the spacecraft sent to explore an alien world that has fascinated humans for centuries and determine whether life might be found there. Mars is humankind’s next great goal in space. The new Space Race has begun! • Offers a fresh perspective on the race to put the first man on Mars • Authoritative writing from former NASA scientist David Baker • Simple, no nonsense explanations of high tech space research equipment
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MODS & ROCKERS Gareth Brown
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-38-2 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JULY 6TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGC An unparalleled moral panic gripped the people of Britain during the spring of 1964 as two bitterly opposed domestic factions, the like of which had not been seen before, clashed in the nation’s seafront towns. The Mods and the Rockers had grown in numbers throughout the decade’s early years and by Easter ’64 their ranks and their differences had become so great that they could no longer be ignored. The overt hostility these two groups displayed toward each other rose until conflict was inevitable. The ominous signs of this impending explosion were spectacularly missed by the authorities until it was way too late. In Mods & Rockers, author Gareth Brown explains the genesis of both movements right through from their conception to the cell splitting that separated them. It closely studies their development, and most importantly, highlights their enduring impact on the popular culture of today. • Charts the rise of two of British pop culture’s most iconic factions • From the author of Scooter Boys – The Evolution of the Species • Fully illustrated with rare period photography
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MURDERS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD - 70S Michael Cowton
About the author: Michael Cowton honed his journalistic skills on national newspapers as a features writer, columnist and chief sub-editor, working variously for the Daily Express, The Observer and Mail On Sunday. As a published biographer, his writing credits include works on the bands Level 42 and Pet Shop Boys. A former magazine editor and visiting lecturer in media studies, he is currently employed as a production editor for a major publishing house. Married with two children, he lives in Lincolnshire. ramblings and learn a little about the lore of the cut.
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK - 128MM X 198MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-28-3 • RELEASE DATE: MARCH 7TH, 2020 • PRICE: $11.99 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: BTC The 1970s saw some of the worst mass killings and murders in recent history. Fanatical cult leader Jim Jones was responsible for the deaths of hundreds, while serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy each had dozens of victims. The chilling crimes of murderers including the Yorkshire Ripper – Peter Sutcliffe – and the Hillside Strangler stunned the world when the details were made public. In Murders That Shook the World – 1970s, author Michael Cowton investigates the decade’s worst murders and murderers. • Examines the most horrific murders and the most deranged murderers of the 1970s • Includes the chilling crimes of serial killers such as Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper and Ted Bundy • Follows the investigation of each crime in thorough detail
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MURDERS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD: CASES FROM THE 1980S Michael Cowton
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 198MM X 128MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-46-7 • PRICE: $11.99 • RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 4TH, 2021 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: BTC Any murder is an horrific crime, but some homicides are so shocking, so grisly or so unusual that they grab headlines all over the world. The most horrendous murders that took place during the decade of New Wave and permed hair are detailed in Murders That Shocked the World – 1980s. Among those profiled are serial killers Andrei Chikatilo, Fred West, Dennis Nilsen and Bobby Joe Long, while the unsolved murders of Margaret and Seana Tapp, and Swedish politician and statesman Olof Palme, also are investigated. • Examines the most horrific murders and the most deranged murderers of the 1980s • Includes the chilling crimes of serial killers such as Fred West, Dennis Nilsen and Andrei Chikatilo • Follows the investigation of each crime in thorough detail
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MURDERS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD: CASES FROM THE 1990S Michael Cowton
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 198MM X 128MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-55-9 • PRICE: $11.99 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 7TH, 2021 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: BTC There are monikers that chill to the bone. The ‘Green River Killer’, The Beast’, ‘The Chessboard Killer’, ‘Dr Death’, infamous serial killers such as Gary Ridgway, Luis Gavarito, Alexander Pichushkin and Harold Shipman, who spread fear throughout neighbourhoods, towns and cities. Murders That Shocked the World – 1990s covers these and more in a gripping narrative, relaying disturbing stories of people who murdered for abnormal psychological gratification, alongside unsolved crimes like those of television presenter Jill Dando, and American rapper and actor Tupac Shakur. • Examines the most horrific murders and the most deranged murderers of the 1990s • Includes the chilling crimes of serial killers such as Harold Shipman and Gary Ridgway – and unsolved murders including those of Jill Dando and Tupac Shakur • Follows the investigation of each crime in thorough detail
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ONE MAN ON A BIKE
Richard Georgiou About the author: Richard lives in a small village in East Sussex with his wife Flowie, Newfoundland dog Nelly and his two cats Frodo and Kiri. He came to biking rather late in life after watching an episode of Long Way Down. A career change from computer chap to business owner allowed him a freedom that he uses to indulge in his two passions; being an idiot and writing about it. Long may it last.
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 128MM X 198MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-13-9 • RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 17TH, 2019 • PRICE: $11.99 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: WGCK Take one self-deprecating idiot with a sense of adventure and a sense of humour but no sense of direction, add a vindictive GPS, and you have One Man on a Bike. This book is a record of author Richard Georgiou’s month-long solo trip from England to Greece and back on his motorbike. With his incredible propensity for disaster, he bumbles through Europe in his own special style attempting to absorb his surroundings while keeping his inner Mr Angry at bay. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he really doesn’t. Follow Richard through his 6000-mile, little boy’s adventure. You might be laughing with him or (more likely) at him, but by the end of the book you’ll understand a little more about what it’s like being someone who struggles to reach the dizzy heights of average. • Real life account of a month-long solo trip from England to Greece on a motorbike • Comical account of Richard’s adventure • Colour photographs from the journey
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ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL Lisa Jansen
About the author: Lisa Jansen lives in New Zealand. Born in Germany, she moved to New Zealand during her University years. She graduated with a Master of Commerce with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland in 2009. Since then, Lisa has been working as a marketing professional and a writer. She is a regular contributor for a New Zealand magazine and also writes for blogs and publications, including her own popular blog Life Done Differently. Lisa loves to explore the outdoors and enjoys all water sports, especially surfing and kitesurfing.
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK - 128MM X 198MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-00-9 • RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 25TH, 2019 • PRICE: $14.99 • PAGES: 300 • BIC: VSPM Lisa Jansen offers a new and fresh perspective on a very popular topic: finding happiness. Instead of providing generic, one-size-fits-all advice and tactics, Lisa guides readers through an empowering journey and process that helps them design their own strategy for a happier life-based on their unique personality, values, and strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on extensive research and the author’s personal experience of turning her life around, this book offers a real-life, jargon-free perspective on finding happiness. Written in an easy to understand, engaging way and incorporating numerous practical and fun exercises, it will be extremely attractive to anyone who is looking for new insights in finding happiness and who wants practical advice on how to live their best possible life.
• Design your own strategy for a happier life using practical advice • Incorporates practical and fun exercises throughout • Written in an easy to understand format
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PARKWAY RAILWAY STATIONS
Mark Chatterton • FORMAT: SOFTBACK 248MM X 184MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-44-3 • PRICE: $19.99 • RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 20TH, 2021 • PAGES: 116 • BIC: WGF Parkway railway stations are found scattered all over England and Wales and play an important role in Britain’s railway network with their emphasis on the ‘park and ride’ model of keeping cars out of our town centres and off our motorways – demonstrating that it really is quicker and easier by train. Bristol Parkway, opened in 1972, was the first of this new breed and is now the busiest of all Parkway railway stations having doubled in size since it first opened. Since then another 20 have opened, some as newly built stations, some at existing stations. Author Mark Chatterton has visited them all and in this unique book profiles each one, focusing on its location, its facilities and its history. • The first and so far only book covering Parkway Railway Stations • Detailed description and photographs of each station • Provides useful travel and transport details
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RAF COLD WAR JET AIRCRAFT IN PROFILE Chris Sandham-Bailey
About the author: Leicestershire-based father of two Chris Sandham-Bailey comes from a family with strong ties to aviation and grew up in Somerset to the sound of Sea Harriers from Yeovilton (an aircraft he still has a passion for). An artist from an early age he has a degree in art/ history of art, combining these two to produce several thousand profiles over the last decade for books and magazines along with commissions for the Luftwaffe and RAF. He has covered all aspects of aviation from the pre-war years to the latest, both civilian and military. When time allows he has also authored the text for articles and books. He claims his job is ‘just colouring in aircraft’ but this belies the huge amount of research and effort he puts into every one of his detailed and accurate designs.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 240MM X 232MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-11-5 • RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 23RE, 2021 • PRICE: $37.99 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: HBTW Written and illustrated throughout by renowned aviation artist Chris Sandham-Bailey, RAF Cold War Jet Aircraft in Profile covers 14 different aircraft types designed and built by British companies and operated by the RAF between 1945 and 2010. Featuring profiles, text and diagrams of frontline and trainer jets from the Gloster Meteor during the closing stages of the Second World War to the Bae Harrier which was finally retired in December 2010, it has everything in between, including the iconic Avro Vulcan and English Electric Lightning. Offering dozens of different colour schemes, scale plans, scrap views and detailed notes, this is indispensable reading for enthusiasts and modellers alike. Types included in Cold War Jets are: Gloster Meteor, de Havilland Vampire, de Havilland Venom, English Electric Canberra, Supermarine Swift,Hawker Hunter, Vickers Valiant, Gloster Javelin, Handley Page Victor, Avro Vulcan, Blackburn Buccaneer, English Electric Lightning, Hawker Siddeley Harrier and SEPECAT Jaguar. • • •
Covers 14 different aircraft types from 1945-2010 Fantastic reading for enthusiasts and modellers alike with scale plans, scrap views and detailed notes Written and illustrated by renowned aviation artist Chris Sandham-Bailey
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RAF SECOND WORLD WAR FIGHTERS IN PROFILE
Chris Sandham-Bailey About the author: Leicestershire-based father of two Chris Sandham-Bailey comes from a family with strong ties to aviation and grew up in Somerset to the sound of Sea Harriers from Yeovilton (an aircraft he still has a passion for). An artist from an early age he has a degree in art/history of art, combining these two to produce several thousand profiles over the last decade for books and magazines along with commissions for the Luftwaffe and RAF. He has covered all aspects of aviation from the pre-war years to the latest, both civilian and military. When time allows he has also authored the text for articles and books. He claims his job is ‘just colouring in aircraft’ but this belies the huge amount of research and effort he puts into every one of his detailed and accurate designs.
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• ISBN: 978-1-911658-06-1
• RELEASE DATE: MARCH 10TH, 2021 • PRICE: $37.99 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: HBWQ RAF Second World War Fighters in Profile features more than 200 highly detailed profiles of 15 different aircraft types flown by the Royal Air Force between 1939 and 1945. Full specifications and histories are included for British and Commonwealth fighters operated on all fronts during the conflict, from the iconic Supermarine Spitfire to US lend-lease types such as the Bell P-39 Airacobra and Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, and everything in between. Written and illustrated throughout by renowned aviation artist Chris Sandham-Bailey, this book offers exquisitely drawn profile views and scale plans of aircraft such as Hawker’s Hurricane, Typhoon and Tempest, plus the Westland Whirlwind, Boulton Paul Defiant and more. Covering all of the RAF’s high-performance wartime machines, this is indispensable reading for enthusiasts and modellers alike.
• Written and illustrated throughout by renowned aviation artist Chris Sandham-Bailey
• Covers all RAF high-performance wartime machines • Features more than 200 highly detailed profiles of 15 different aircraft types flown by the RAF between 1939-1945
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RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVE COLLECTION 1930S Peter Kelly
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 169MM X 238MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-51-1 • PRICE: $11.99 • RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 3RD 2021 • PAGES: 50 • BIC: WGF WQN The last great age of steam in Britain is revisited in this new collection of superb photographs from the extensive archive of the Railway Magazine. Author Peter Kelly, editor of The Railway Magazine Guide to Modelling, looks back to a time when streamlined steam express trains charged headlong through the English countryside every day of the week. The 1930s would see a host of iconic engines constructed – such as the legendary LNER A4s, the beautiful LMS Coronation Class locos, the rare LMS Princess Royal Class and the workhorse LNER Class V2 engines. This new volume collects images offering a glimpse of the days when these incredible engines could be found hard at work all over Britain. • Huge selection of rare photos from the archive of The Railway Magazine • Focuses on the dawn of the high-speed train age • Compiled by Peter Kelly, editor of The Railway Magazine Guide to Modelling
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RONNY BARR PROFILES BRITISH TWO SEATERS OF THE GREAT WAR Ronny Bar
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 232MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-43-6 • PRICE: $39.99 • RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 24TH, 2021 • PAGES: 136 • BIC: JWMV3 Artist Ronny Bar, a member of director Sir Peter Jackson’s New Zealand-based Wingnut Wings team, presents the first collection of his astonishingly detailed First World War aircraft profiles – British Two-Seaters of the Great War. Two-seater aircraft were the workhorses of the Royal Flying Corps and from 1918 the Royal Air Force, operated in a wide variety of roles such as training, artillery spotting, reconnaissance, communications, coastal patrol and even bombing. Some, such as the B.E.2c and R.E.8, became notorious while others such as the Bristol F.2B fighter proved popular and reliable. What they lacked in glamour and aesthetic appeal, these aircraft made up for with their purposeful looks, practical design and do-it-all usefulness over the battlefield. This book features 260 meticulously researched profiles of the war’s most important and iconic British two-seaters: the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2a to B.E.2g, F.E.2b, F.E.2d and R.E.8; Avro 504, Vickers F.B.5, Sopwith 1½ Strutter, Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8, Bristol F.2B and Airco DH.4, DH.9 and DH.9A. • Author Ronny Bar is the official profile artist for Lord of the Rings director Sir Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Wings aircraft modelling company. • 260 accurate and highly-detailed artworks depicting aircraft from the pioneering years of military aviation. • Features more than a dozen different aircraft types flown by the Royal Flying Corps and RAF during the Great War.
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SCOOTER BOYS Gareth Brown
About the author: Gareth Brown has a BA in Social History, specialising in post-Second World War 20th Century Youth Culture. He has had more than 1000 articles published in the field of youth culture in the national press and presented a segue on scooter culture on BBC TV’s Top Gear (1986). Having been an A-Level history and psychology lecturer, and a guest speaker at many events, he has featured on BBC Radio 4 as a youth culture/scootering expert a dozen times, and lectured on the subject to undergraduates on a number of occasions.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK (265MM X 240MM) • ISBN: 978-1-911658-37-5 • RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 11TH, 2019 • PRICE: $22.95 • PAGES: 150 • BIC: WGC Thirty years have passed since Gareth Brown’s homage to a two-wheeled, two-stroke way of life was published. The first edition of his acclaimed book Scooter Boys, highlighting youth culture spanning half a century, was first published when Margaret Thatcher’s reign as the Eighties Iron Lady was drawing to a close. Now, three decades on, Brown’s book is back to enlighten and entertain a new generation – and rekindle memories for those who were scooter boys and girls back in the day. His informed knowledge of the initial Scooter Boy era has resulted in the 30th Anniversary Edition of Scooter Boys being refreshingly updated and published by Mortons, the home of Scootering and Classic Scooterist magazines. Brown has been a ‘face’ on the scooter scene since the 1970s, when he was legally able to ride a motor scooter on the road, and scooter ownership and riding scooters has been a passion ever since. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the scooter rally correspondent and later editor of Scootering magazine, which led to his book – a unique take on the Scooter Boy movement, history, traditions and culture. Scooter Boys charts the development of the early scooters and the post-Second World War arrival of the Italian scooters from Vespa and Lambretta, followed by the chronicling of the rise of 1950s teenage consumerism which led to the Mod versus Rocker riots of the 1960s. It outlines the intervening years before the massed Mod revival of 1979 onwards, when the Northern Soul scene kept the scooter movement alive, and traces the emergence of the unsung street heroes of the late 20th century and beyond. • Celebrates the 30th anniversary of author Gareth Brown’s acclaimed account of 80s scooter boy culture • Fully updated and revised text, including more than 150 images • Covers the rise of the nomadic scooter boy lifestyle in all its glory - the rallies, the scooters and the music
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SECRET PROJECTS OF THE LUFTWAFFE IN PROFILE Daniel Uhr and Dan Sharp
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 232MM X 240MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-62-7 • PRICE: $39.99 • RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 11TH, 2021 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: JWMV3 The Second World War was a time of tremendous technological progress in aviation with innovations such as jet engines and swept wings being brought in as engineers on all sides desperately sought every possible performance advantage. In Germany the quest for better aircraft resulted in some astonishing designs – everything from bombers with forward-swept wings to ramjet fighters and disposable rocket-propelled interceptors. In Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe in Profile, renowned aviation artist Daniel Uhr has brought the original German construction sketches and three-views of these designs to life like never before – offering a whole new perspective on images previously only seen as black and white line drawings. Accompanying Daniel’s artworks is a full description of the competitions and requirements which produced such a huge number of innovative and unusual designs during the war, as well as descriptions of the designs themselves, written by German Second World War aircraft development specialist Dan Sharp and based on the latest historical research.
• More than 200 highly detailed profile artworks • Based on original wartime drawings and documents • Text written by German WW2 aircraft development specialist Sharp
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SECRET PROJECTS OF THE LUFTWAFFE VOL 1 - JET FIGHTERS 1939 -1945
Dan Sharp
About the author: Dan Sharp studied history at the University of Liverpool before beginning a career in journalism. Having spent several years as the news editor of a regional daily newspaper, he switched to motorcycle magazines. His previously published works on aviation have covered subjects ranging from German Second World War projects to Concorde. He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 222MM X 288MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-08-5 • RELEASE DATE: JULY 29TH, 2020 • PRICE: $39.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: JWMV3 Germany’s air ministry was quick to grasp the potential of the jet engine as early as 1938 and by 1939 several German aircraft manufacturers were already working on fighter designs that would utilise this new form of propulsion. Rocket engines too were seen as the way of the future and companies were commissioned to design fighters around them. As the Second World War began, the urgent need to bring these advanced new types into production saw a host of innovative aircraft designs being produced which would eventually result in Messerschmitt’s Me 262 jet fighter and the Me 163 rocket-propelled interceptor. And as the war progressed, efforts were increasingly made to find better ways of utilising jet, rocket and latterly ramjet engines in fighter aircraft. Aviation companies from across Germany set their finest minds to the task and produced some of the most radical aircraft designs the world had ever seen. They proposed rotating wing ramjet fighters, arrowhead-shaped rammers, rocket-firing bat-winged gun platforms, sleek speed machines, tailless flying wings, tiny mini fighters and a host of others ranging from deadly-looking advanced fighters to downright dangerous vertical launch interceptors. Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe Volume 1: Jet Fighters 1939-1945 by Dan Sharp, based on original research using German wartime documents, offers the most complete and authoritative account yet of these fascinating designs through previously unseen photographs, illustrations and period documentation from archives around the world. • Based on research from German wartime documents and archives around the world • Fascinating designs of Luftwaffe aircraft from unseen photographs, illustrations and documentation • Offers the first comprehensive history of German jet fighter development during the war
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SECRET PROJECTS OF THE LUFTWAFFE VOL 2 - BOMBERS 1939 -1945
Dan Sharp
About the author: Dan Sharp studied history at the University of Liverpool before beginning a career in journalism. Having spent several years as the news editor of a regional daily newspaper, he switched to motorcycle magazines. His previously published works on aviation have covered subjects ranging from German Second World War projects to Concorde. He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 222MM X 288MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-09-2 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 20TH, 2021 • PRICE: $39.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: JWMV3 Dozens of top secret bomber designs were drawn up by the Germans during the Second World War, including gigantic flying wings, sleek jet bombers, asymmetrical bombers with the cockpit and weapons turrets on the ends of their wings and even enormous carriers for single-seat suicide bombers. Starting with Heinkel’s He 177, the most advanced bomber design of its day in 1936, author Dan Sharp looks at the huge variety of bomber projects produced during the days of the Third Reich, uncovering a host of original and previously unseen documents to offer an unrivalled look at bombers such as the Arado E 470, E 555 and previously unknown Arado types, Junkers Ju 488, Focke-Wulf Ta 400 and Fw 300, Blohm & Voss P 163 and BV 250, Messerschmitt P 1107 and P 1108, He 343 and the so-called Daimler-Benz projects. Secret Projects of the Third Reich Volume 2: Bombers 1939-1945 is a companion volume for Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe Volume 1: Jet Fighters 1939-1945 and includes numerous new and period illustrations. • Based on research from German wartime documents and archives around the world • Fascinating designs of Luftwaffe aircraft from unseen photographs, illustrations and documentation • Offers the first comprehensive history of German bomber development during the war
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SETTLE & CARLISLE REVIVAL THE LINE THAT REFUSED TO DIE Brian Sharpe
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-54-2 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JUNE 10TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGF WQN The Settle & Carlisle railway runs across the roof of England, reaching the highest point on any main line railway in the country, and carries both passenger services and freight traffic. But it has also been fortunate enough to survive two attempts to close it and in fact should probably never have been built at all. There could now be a 72-mile abandoned trackbed passing through such places as Blea Moor, over Dent Head and Arten Gill viaducts and the legendary Ais Gill summit, but sufficient people felt strongly enough to campaign successfully to stop this happening. This is the story of the revival in the fortunes of the Settle & Carlisle. Many closed stations have reopened and been restored to their former glory, freight traffic has returned and steam-hauled excursions over the line have gone from strength to strength. • Authoritative writing from former Heritage Railway deputy editor Brian Sharpe • Learn how the Settle & Carlisle endured a desperate battle for survival • Fully illustrated throughout with rare and stunning photographs
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SHERMAN TANKS OF THE RED ARMY
Peter Samsonov • FORMAT: SOFTBACK 248MM X 184MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-47-4 • PRICE: $19.99 • RELEASE DATE: APRIL 14TH, 2021 • PAGES: 116 • BIC: JWMV1 More than 4000 examples of the famous diesel-fuelled M4A2 Sherman tank were sent to the Soviet Union during the Second World War under the Lead-Lease programme. These American-built vehicles were operated by Red Army crews against the Germans during some of the bitterest fighting on the Eastern Front – yet despite serving with distinction and being well-liked by their crews, relatively little has been written about these vehicles until now. Tank expert Peter Samsonov looks at the origins of the M4A2 in Soviet service and the machines that were received from the US as well as providing a detailed assessment of how they fared in combat on the front line. • Includes dozens of rare photographs of the Sherman in Soviet service • Covers a previously little-known chapter in the famous tank’s history • Author Peter Samsonov runs the highly-rated TankArchives.ca blog
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SPITFIRES OVER BERLIN
Dan Sharp
About the author: Dan Sharp studied history at the University of Liverpool before beginning a career in journalism. Having spent several years as the news editor of a regional daily newspaper, he switched to motorcycle magazines. His previously published works on aviation have covered subjects ranging from German Second World War projects to Concorde. He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 222MM X 288MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-04-7 • RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 20TH, 2019 • PRICE: $37.99 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: JWMV3 As British and American forces closed in from the west, the Russians pushed in hard from the east, and the RAF and USAAF bombed Germany every night and day, the beleaguered Luftwaffe went all-out in a last effort to defend the Fatherland during the last months of the Second World War. Spitfires Over Berlin tells the story of the desperate battles that took place over the Western Front from January 1 to May 8, 1945. True stories of aerial combat, courage and daring from all sides of the conflict illustrate the dramatic tale of the war’s closing chapter - from the battle between the Spitfire XIV pilots of 350 Squadron and Fw 190s over the western fringes of Berlin to the murder of a downed P-51 Mustang pilot by civilians and carefully planned ramming attacks on American bombers. Also featured are the ‘dogfight’ between a Piper L-4H Grasshopper and a Fieseler Storch, what led a disgraced Luftwaffe pilot to fly the lethal BP 20 Natter rocket-powered interceptor, the French aces who flew for the Soviets, the fate of the US pilots who shot down a flight of Mistel combinations and much more. • True stories from the final days of the Second World War • More than 300 rare photographs • Based on original archival research
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STEAMING OVER THE NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS Robin Jones
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 240MM X 165MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-64-1 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 25TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGF Author Robin Jones tells the full story of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway: its beginnings in 1836 as the Whitby & Pickering Railway, its conversion to a steam railway, its years under the London & North Eastern Railway and British Railways, and its closure by Dr Beeching – with the accompanying protests. The line would later be saved by volunteers and reopened step by step. Eventually services were extended back over the main line to Whitby. Today the line regularly receives upwards of 350,000 visitors a year from across the UK, and indeed the world. It is now by far the most popular steam railway in Britain, not only because of its stunning moorland scenery and magnificent locomotive fleet, but also because it featured in the prime time ITV 1960s police drama Heartbeat for 18 years, fans of which are still drawn to it today.
• Authoritative writing from Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones • Discover the fascinating history of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway • Examines how a closed railway line was reopened and became a huge success
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STRATFORD DEPOT LOCOMOTIVES Roger Rounce
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-42-9 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JULY 13TH, 2021 • PAGES: 100 • BIC: WGF Engines from every region could be found at Stratford TMD during the 1980s and 90s – making it an ideal hunting ground for the rail enthusiast. Photographer Roger Rounce presents a collection of his own images of diesels and electrics from those days when Stratford used any Class 47 to hand for Norwich trains and journeys between Chelmsford and Liverpool Street could just as easily be hauled by an Eastfield Class 47 as one shedded at Stratford. Visiting Class 37s were also used on empty stock and Cambridge trains. Stratford Depot Locomotives includes Class 08s, 31s, 37s and 47s alongside less common classes such as 20, 58, 60, 86 and 87. Details of each locomotive pictured include when it was built, when it was scrapped, names currently and previously held, other numbers carried, historical notes and dates. • A nostalgic look back at the diesels and electrics of the 1980s • Features dozens of the author’s own photographs covering the engines of the period • Detailed notes are provided for each locomotive pictured
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE CUSTOM SCOOTER Stuart Owen
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-48-1 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2020 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGC Lambretta and Vespa scooters dominated the British two-wheeled market from the 1950s into the 1960s. Functional commuter machines gave way to chrome mirrors and lights then extravagantly painted murals of the 1980s. Owners began using their scooters as canvases upon which to express themselves. Rivalries sprang up and as competition between owners grew, so too did the outrageousness of their creations. Today the custom scooter scene thrives and is a strong as it ever has been – with fresh creations showcasing the talents and imaginations of their owners like never before. More and more people are reminiscing about the iconic scooters of yesteryear and the movement shows no signs of waning. This book goes right back to the beginning to look at how it all started, the different styles each decade produced and the most famous machines ever built. • Detailed history of scooter customization from the 60s to the present • Fully illustrated throughout with rare period photographs • Scooter historian Owen is the founder of the 100mph Lambretta Club
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THE OPIUM EATERS Stephen Carver
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK 198MM X 128MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-66-5 • PRICE: $11.99 • RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: JFFH1 When the brilliant Oxford drop-out and freelance journalist Thomas De Quincey published his seminal article Confessions of an English Opium Eater in 1821, he was following the old adage ‘write about what you know’. Writing in coffee shops to avoid debt collectors, the 36-year-old proto-Romantic had been addicted to opium for almost 20 years. If produced today, his Confessions would read more like Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting; with illicit drug deals, the constant threat of arrest and the whole miserable, sordid world of the outcast addict, demonised by politicians and mass media. But in the 19th century laudanum, a tincture of opium dissolved in alcohol, was as ubiquitous and legal as aspirin is today. With the notable exception of William Wordsworth, all the English Romantics and many Victorian artists and writers were users. In the wider political context, the opium trade was the mainstay of the East India Company and therefore at the heart of the British economy to the point that the Empire fought two wars with China, the major buyer, when its rulers tried to outlaw the trade. In The Opium Eaters, cultural historian Dr Stephen Carver examines the impact of opium abuse on the literature and politics of the 19th century – from Lord Byron sipping laudanum out of a crystal decanter to the opium dens of London’s East End. He tells the story of the writers, the ‘psychonauts’ of their age, from De Quincey and the Romantics to the late-Victorians and earlyModernists, as well as looking at literary works which used opium as a major plot device, such as The Moonstone, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Uncle Silas, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In parallel, he covers the history of the scientific development of opium into morphine and heroin, changing societal views, and drug-related crime. • Reveals how the finest Victorian writers were inspired and in some cases destroyed by their opium addictions. • Explores and explains a time when doctors proscribed hard drugs for a toothache and drug wars were fought with China. • Author Dr Stephen Carver specialises in researching the crime, culture and literature of 19th century England.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF KING COAL Nick Pigott
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-63-4 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 18TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: KNBC Deep-mined coal is no longer produced in the United Kingdom – the last of the country’s collieries was closed at the end of 2015, causing the sun to set on a vast industry that at one time boasted 3,000 mines and employed well over a million workers. The Rise and Fall of King Coal tells the fascinating story of coal… from its origins in prehistoric swamps to its early primitive mining methods and to its role as the mineral that fuelled the Industrial Revolution and put the ‘Great’ into Britain. It explores the history and operation of the collieries and their railways, explains the location of the coalfields and examines the hazards, hardships, disputes and tragedies that were part of every miner’s life. Finally, with Britain now possessing only a handful of opencast and tiny drift mines while still importing millions of tons of coal from overseas, the UK’s energy policy is examined at a time when many Britons are worrying whether it is sufficiently fit for purpose.
• Authoritative writing from former The Railway Magazine editor Nick Pigott • Covers the complete history of coal mining in Britain – from beginning to end • Fully illustrated throughout with rare photos and drawings
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THE STEAM ENGINES OF WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE Philip Horton
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 169 X 238MM • ISBN: 978-1-857945-69-0 • RELEASE DATE: MARCH 24TH, 2021 • PRICE: $39.99 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGF Few events had a greater influence on Europe’s railways in the 20th century than the Second World War. As described in this book, thousands of steam engines were produced for the conflict by all sides. Although many were damaged during the war, most survived. Indeed, many of the British and American engines arrived in Europe too late and were immediately put into store. They and their German contemporaries were to form a mainstay of the peacetime railways of Europe and Great Britain, in many cases until the end of steam. Many other ex-war engines found employment on the Continent’s heritage railways. The author first encountered these engines while trainspotting in the late 1950s. At the end of GB steam he extended his interest to the Continent. With the help of like-minded enthusiasts this book records his pursuit of these engines, when they were still at work and in preservation.
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TRIUMPH: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT BRITISH MARQUE James Robinson
• FORMAT: HARDBACK 250MM X 190MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-58-0 • PRICE: $22.99 • RELEASE DATE: JUNE 24TH, 2021 • PAGES: 144 • BIC: WGCK Triumph is truly one of the most enduringly popular names in motorcycling. The word itself literally means to win and Triumph the motorcycle maker has, for the most part of its 100-plus years, been a world-class winner. Author James Robinson, editor of The Classic MotorCycle magazine, delves into the recesses of the Mortons photographic archive to find rare images of beautiful Triumph machines from every era of the company’s history – from the early days in the late Victorian age to the Great War, the Vintage period (1918-1930), the 30s, the Second World War, the 1950s boom years, the cool 60s, the difficult 70s, the death and rebirth of Triumph in the 80s and beyond – right up to the present day. • Authoritative writing from The Classic Motorcycle editor James Robinson • Excellent selection of rare photos from Europe’s largest collection of motorcycle photography. • Charts the history of Britain’s most iconic motorcycle manufacturer.
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WE DON’T GO FAR BUT WE DO SEE LIFE Keith Harris
About the author: Keith loves canals and has been fascinated by them for most of his life. He was born and brought up in the English seaside town of Hastings, many miles from the nearest canal. He has always been drawn to the sea however, and joined the local Sea Cadets when he was 13. Most of his summer holidays were spent at the ‘Unit’ – learning from his mistakes and finding himself. In the 1970s he discovered that there was an extensive and fascinating network of more than 2000 miles of canals in Britain and began to explore them. He bought his own narrowboat in 1986 and in 1998 acquired the beautiful replica Dutch Luxemotor, Saul Trader. Writing began as a way to document his travels for his own satisfaction but today he writes to spread the news further afield and hopes readers will find some enjoyment from his ramblings and learn a little about the lore of the cut.
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK - 128MM X 198MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-16-0 • RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 3RD, 2020 • PRICE: $11.99 • PAGES: 250 • BIC: WGGN Follow Dutch barge Saul Trader on her voyages through the canals of Europe. Author Keith Harris and his merry crew journey from England to Belgium and Holland through the centre of France to the Southern extremities of the extensive French canal system. There are stories and anecdotes about the people that they meet along the way, and the amusing and sometimes frightening incidents that occur during their epic jaunt. • Discover the extremities of the French canal system • Join Dutch barge Saul Trader on her scenic journey through Europe • Top travel tips for those looking for a European canal adventure
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WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE HERE Kevin Taylor
About the author: Kevin Taylor was born Winchester, Hampshire in 1965, lived most his life in Swindon, Wiltshire before moving to the Philippines to be with his wife Charlene Taylor and their two daughters. This is where Kevin ended up in a Philippine prison. Kevin’s interests are his family, reading, writing, music - particularly 1960s soul, scooters and 1960s fashion. He has been in the Philippines for 14 years and is looking forward to coming home.
• FORMAT: SOFTBACK - 128MM X 198MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-31-3 • RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 12TH, 2021 • PRICE: $11.99 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: BTC British former recruitment firm boss Kevin Taylor was arrested on fraud charges in the Philippines in May 2009 and held for five years without trial. In prison he faced fights and flooding but worse was to come. In 2014, he and his wife Charlene were both convicted of fraud and sentenced to 12 years. This time he was subjected to constant searches, violence, corruption, rampant drug abuse and was even witness to the murder of fellow inmates. Changes in the law meant he was released early in 2018 – only to find himself held indefinitely in a deportation centre. We’re All Going to Die Here is a vivid cautionary tale of life of British man’s life within one of the most notorious prison systems in the world. • Harrowing story of former recruitment boss Kevin Taylor’s imprisonment in the Philippines • Lifts the lid on a brutal world of violence, drugs and deprivation in one of the world’s worst prison systems • A riveting first-hand account of survival against the odds in the most difficult of circumstances
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WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE HERE
TEN YEARS INSIDE A PHILIPPINO PRISON THE TRUE STORY Kevin Taylor • FORMAT: SOFTBACK 198MM X 128MM • ISBN: 978-1-911658-31-3 • PRICE: $11.99 • RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 12TH, 2021 • PAGES: 200 • BIC: BM BTC British former recruitment firm boss Kevin Taylor was arrested on fraud charges in the Philippines in May 2009 and held for five years without trial. In prison he faced fights and flooding but worse was to come. In 2014, he and his wife Charlene were both convicted of fraud and sentenced to 12 years. This time he was subjected to constant searches, violence, corruption, rampant drug abuse and was even witness to the murder of fellow inmates. Changes in the law meant he was released early in 2018 – only to find himself held in a deportation centre. Fresh changes were laid in 2019. We’re All Going to Die Here is a vivid cautionary tale of a British man’s life within one of the most notorious prison systems in the world. • Harrowing story of former recruitment boss Kevin Taylor’s imprisonment in the Philippines • Lifts the lid on a brutal world of violence, drugs and deprivation in one of the world’s worst prison systems • A gripping first-hand account of survival against the odds in the most difficult of circumstances
TO PLACE AN ORDER, CONTACT: Address: 1950AN Lawrence Road, Havertown, PA 19083 Harbour TO PLACE ORDER, CONTACT : Rupert
•• Tel: 610.853.9146 • Email: casemate@casematepublishers.com Tel: 610.853.9131 07733 104992 • • Fax: Email: harbourpubservices@gmail.com Website: www.casemateipm.com Distributed by Orca Book Services Ltd, Unit A3, Fleets Corner, Poole, Dorset BH17 0HL