SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT

2016 Nominee - Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Rec...

'Transatlantic Liners 1950-1970' is a glorious reference of a grand but bygone age to those passe...

During the Second World War German intelligence had deployed wireless teams throughout occupied E...

Elizabeth Foster, 'Bess' is one of the larger-than-life characters that occasionally flits across...

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

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

Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser's Marshals and Generals, 1847-1955 covers...

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...

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

The development of aviation engines in Germany was revolutionary during closing stages of the War...

Impossible to detect by radar or intercepted by fighters, the Luftwaffe embarked on top secret pr...

Passengers is a social history of Britain between 1790 and 1840. This is the period of the Napole...

A comprehensive, highly detailed, and highly illustrated history of Soviet-built fighters used du...

This book depicts all known designs of all Axis suicide airplanes and panic fighters. Just about ...

From the end of the Second World War through three decades, to the 1970s, traditional port-to-por...

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...

Throughout most of the twelve years between their formation and disbanding after the death of dru...

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 volume carries on where FIRST OF THE FEW finished, in the same style and format. 10 July--th...

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

'In this state of mind, which excludes any falsehood, I declare that not a single word of what I ...

England, Their England is an affectionately satirical inter-war comic novel first published in 19...

Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to have ascended the English throne and the only English ki...

National league glory last visited Manchester City in 1968, when the likes of Bell, Lee and Summe...

No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most ...

The story of the Great Liners begins on the Atlantic route between the Old World and the New, bet...

Celtic: Changing Faces is a montage of team groups and player profiles from 1888 to the present d...

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

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

Born in Birmingham, Steve Winwood was already a semi-professional musician, playing keyboards and...

610 (County of Chester) Squadron was formed in February 1936 as a bomber squadron. With personnel...

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

Philip Astley first pegged out his circular 'ride' on the banks of the Thames in 1768 and so laid...

This is the story of Britain's elite special force in Italy during the Second World War. In the s...

The story of James VI & I and his notorious favourites involves sexual politics, sodomy, pederast...

Sir Bob, former chair of Shell UK among much else, lost his right hand aged 9, learned to write w...

Singer-songwriter Kate Bush's eclectic style with its diverse lyrical themes defies easy categori...

In the summer of 1956, while on shore leave from the Merchant Navy, Thomas Hicks was spotted play...

This book covers Bomber Command from creation in 1936 to 1945. In parallel with Fighter Command's...

Churchill's Little Redhead is the autobiography of much-travelled author and television presenter...

Rodolfo Graziani, Marshal of Italy, Viceroy of Ethiopia and one of Mussolini's most valued genera...

During the Nazi regime in Germany, all police forces were centralized under the command of Reichs...