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nuclear weapons. 310pp in large paperback with 20 pages of colour and b/w photos plus maps. £16.99 NOW £5


70963 FORD MOTOR CARS 1945-1964 by Alan


Earnshaw and Robert Berry Containing entirely period photographs (in b/w), a golden age of British motor vehicle manufacturing is captured. The book tells the story of Ford’s golden


age in post-war Britain with such famous models as the Ford Pilot V8, the Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac, the Anglia, the Prefect, the Consul Classic and Classic Capri and, of course, the Cortina and Corsair. 46 large pages. Softback.


£5.99 NOW £2.75 67894 STEAMING THROUGH BRITAIN: A


History of the Nation’s Railways by Chris Ellis and Greg Morse


Chapters deal with innovative design, nationalisation of the network and the giant administrative entity that was British Railways, identifying key factors such as the drive for modernisation and standardisation that heralded the end of steam in favour of diesel locomotives and, ultimately, nationwide electrification. The final section is devoted to the nation’s preservation railways. 192 large pages, archive and colour artworks, iconic advertising photos and maps. £20 NOW £4


68447 FLIGHT TEST LAB: Helicopters by Paul Beck


Build and launch four different helicopters or create your own designs. Mix and match the parts to assemble a Black Hawk, a search-and-rescue ‘copter, a helitanker and a police chopper. The kit includes 20 mix and match plastic parts in bright colours, a power launcher with rip cord and a 32 page illustrated softback detailing the science and technology of flight. Designed for children aged eight to adult. $17.95 NOW £3.50


68919 MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109 RECOGNITION MANUAL: A Guide to Variants, Weapons and Equipment


by Marco Fernández-Sommerau, Jean-Pierre Van Mol and Eric Mombeek


This aircraft formed the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter force during the Second World War, fighting on all fronts from the frozen far North of Europe to the deserts of North Africa. During the process of continuous improvement to performance and combat requirements, the aircraft underwent modification to such an extent that identifying a particular variant or sub-type has often meant hours of research and uncertainty. By using hundreds of operational photos and aircraft handbook drawings, this volume sets out to describe production variants. The B, C, D, E, T, F, G and K are all illustrated, as well as the lesser-known Spanish J. The research is based exclusively on original German Air Ministry and manufacturer’s records and documentation, combined with data drawn from wartime photos as well as archaeological studies of various Bf 109 wrecks. 224 very large pages. £35 NOW £14


68971 ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF STEAM AND RAIL


by Colin Garratt and Max Wade-Matthews Subtitled The History and Development of the Train and an Evocative Guide to the World’s Great Train Journeys. Super pictures and gasp-provoking details are provided, from Trevithick’s historic first steam locomotive to the fastest regularly scheduled train in the world (Tokyo’s Nozomi 500, which carries an average of 1,000 passengers, and travels at 186 miles per hour). The first half of the book contains The World Encyclopedia of Locomotives and the second half of the book (Great Railway Journeys of the World) is no less exciting. 512 pages, 1500 photos, mostly in colour. ONLY £4


69124 SHEFFIELD ON THE MOVE - BYGONE


TRANSPORT edited by Alan Powell This amazing collection of archive photos documents the saga of Sheffield’s public transport from the late 19th century up to the late 20th. A horse-drawn tram on the road to Heeley advertises “Lewis’s 2/- Tea” while a Stagecoach at Hunter’s Bar in 1898 is reminiscent of Wells Fargo. Many of Sheffield’s electric trams are preserved in working order in the nearby tram museum at Crich. Road transport finally dominated, with Pond Street bus station being renamed a “transport interchange”, but the popular Supertram shows no sign of giving up. 128pp, b/w and colour photos. £14.99 NOW £5


69145 HARRIER THE V/ STOL WARRIOR by John


Dibbs with Tony Holmes We confess to having fallen for both the photographs and the informative captions in this loving tribute to the only really practical solution to combining the versatility of the helicopter with the performance of a


high speed combat aircraft. Apparently, the secret is in the nozzle selector lever. The Harriers of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force flew with distinction in the Falklands conflict, gave a good account of themselves in the Gulf as part of Operation Desert Storm and supported the evacuation of US civilians from Liberia, as well as remaining in Belize as a deterrent to Guatemalan aspirations. These experiences have confirmed that the Harrier, as a flexibly based multi-role weapon system offers defence chiefs maximum options with which to counter any future threat. 128 pages, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £5


69302 MORE AMAZING AND


EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY FACTS by Julian Holland


We travel along the overgrown branch lines of transport history to learn about such obscurities as oil-burning steam locomotives, bogus insurance claims for non- existent injuries from over 100 years ago (plus ça change...), the early model railways from Hornby and Tri-ang, André Michelin’s pneumatic rubber-tyred trains, the difference between a “navvy proper” and a “tramp navvy”, and the two clergymen, other than the celebrated Rev W. Awdry, who famously loved and wrote of the railways. Over 60 entries. 128pp with many b/w illus. £9.99 NOW £2.75


69283 AN A-Z OF RAILWAYS by Paul Atterbury


Antiques Roadshow pundit Paul Atterbury has assembled a wonderful collage of photos, memorabilia and detailed research. A is for Architecture, and the station buildings on show range from the elaborate Gothic of St. Pancras, just as sensational now as in the 1870s to the classical columns of Bath Green Park, closed in 1966 (B is for Beeching). Royal trains include the elegant ultra-modern Edwardian designs created for Queen Alexandra, and several other sections have fascinating period details - for instance Signals, Tickets, Tunnels and Turntables. Spectacular Viaducts are a Yorkshire speciality, with superb photos of the Settle and Carlisle, Lockwood and Knaresborough viaducts. 176pp, colour and b/w photos. £14.99 NOW £5.50


69448 WOMEN AT WORK ON LONDON’S


TRANSPORT 1905-1978 by Anna Rotondaro An evocative collection of images charting the history of women at work from a typist employed by the District Railway in 1905 to the first women bus and Tube drivers in the mid 1970s. After the Second World War ended, women were recalled to continue in the jobs they had been doing so well. Here an assembly worker puts the finishing touches to the section of a Halifax at Leavesden Works in 1941. 200 b/w archive photos and other contemporary posters and memorabilia. 128pp in large paperback.


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70455 CHAPMAN’S CAR COMPENDIUM: The Essential


Book of Car Facts and Trivia by Giles Chapman We are transported along the highways and byways of the automotive world, making intriguing detours in pursuit of lesser-known facts and fascinating motoring trivia from around the globe. Here are lists, anecdotes, league tables and trivia, things which have made the


author laugh and other issues he has found galling. An example from a car insurance claim: ‘An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished.’ Queries include: What is the brake horsepower of the 10 most powerful production cars of all time? What is the difference between nerf bars and wheelie bars? 188pp. £9.95 NOW £3.50


69524 MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield Today, 50 years after its launch, the Mini continues to make headlines and inspire devotion in those who own it. The author has interviewed 38 of the people who actually made it or who are Mini fanatics. They range through Alex Issigonis a car designer, Frank Stephenson a cool designer, Lord Snowdon a Mini enthusiast, Cedric Scroggs an old-school marketing director, Jean Cummings a trim machinist and Jim McDowell an American vice president to Gabrielle Hummelbrunner an advertising and promotional film coordinator. Their forthright opinions reflect how a car became a symbol of the age that created it. 286 pages illus in colour and b/w. £16.99 NOW £4.50


69538 DECLINE OF SOUTHERN STEAM by Michael Welch


At 17:45 on 9 July 1967 the 14:07 from Weymouth, pulled by Pacific Class No.350030 Elder Dempster Lines, arrived at Waterloo. 40 minutes later, the engine reversed out of the station and parked up at Nine Elms shed, as it had done hundreds of times before. The driver shut down the engine, and there ended 130 glorious years of steam traction on Southern Region. Many of the enthusiasts who witnessed those events may not have realised it, but in reality the run-down of steam had begun 58 years ago, with the electrification of the South London Line, and if two world wars had not intervened, steam would probably have been history two decades earlier. One by one the much-loved classes succumbed to the relentless advance of modern motive power. Michael Welch has an extraordinary network of railway photographers to draw upon, and an equally remarkable knack of finding that perfect image. This album was published to commemorate 40 years since 350030’s final journey. All colour photos are captioned. 112pp, 9"×10".


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69539 SLAM DOORS ON THE SOUTHERN by Michael Welch


See fine woodwork incorporating the Pullman coat of arms, the plush interior of trailer first kitchen car ‘Gwen’ (1969), spacious two-a-side seating and second class ‘Brighton Belle’ cars. A fascinating view of Waterloo station taken in 1957 gives an insight into operations at the terminus at that time. Coverage of the whole UK takes us to places forgotten and captions like ‘The photographer would probably have been able to smell the new paint as ‘4 EPB’ No. 5601 whisked past Earlsfield station’ takes us to the trackside. Some 140 of the best available colour images show all the different types (32 in all) of Southern’s slam-door electrics from 1955 to 2005, a fleet which totalled well over 1,000 in its heyday. 122pp, 9"×10", all colour. £16.95 NOW £7.50


69599 BRITISH STEAM ENGINES by O. S. Nock


The introduction to this book is an expanded version of the bestselling title British Steam Locomotives, first published in 1964. It has been brought up to date by Jon Mountford. Here is detailed information on specifications, classes, development, construction, the engines and the tracks they ran on. It begins with how a steam locomotive works, early high-pressure steam engines, the Rainhill trials, the Stephenson’s success, Brunel and the Great Western Railway, the Armagh disaster, the first underground train and the Metropolitan railway, the Big Four, railways in wartime, nationalisation, both standard guage and narrow guage heritage railways, preserved steam locos, steam centres, museums and works. Colour photos, 304 large pages. £14.99 NOW £5


69939 CHAPMAN QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE


TO NAUTICAL FLAGS by Dan Fales Flags of importance, types of flags (national, yacht, state, yacht club and cruising, organisational), size of flags, personal pennants, distress, courtesy, code flags, race flags, battle flags, flags of rank, other special flags plus where to fly, when, flag etiquette, flags ashore, raising and lowering, folding a flag, half mast, weather


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71086 EXPLORERS OF THE NILE


by Tim Jeal


The 21 years between 1856 and 1877 were possibly the most exciting in the history of African exploration as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton, Speke and Grant, together with the lesser-known expedition of Samuel Baker and his mistress Florence von Sass, were all caught up in the age-old race to find the


source of the Nile. Not even the indigenous Africans knew the source of the White Nile, which joins the Blue Nile at Khartoum to form a single massive waterway with no tributaries. The Blue Nile is subject to seasonal fluctuation so from an agricultural and geopolitical point of view it was important to establish whether the White Nile might dry up, but mid-century explorers were also motivated by a passionate drive to push back the horizons of the known world and establish the facts in the interests of science, braving tough terrain, famine and hostile peoples. Speke, Burton and Baker claimed to have reached, if not the source, then at least one of the river’s main reservoirs, and in 1865 Livingstone, whose wife and many team members had died on a previous expedition, found the huge Lualaba River and was convinced it was the Nile. His way downstream was blocked and a subsequent expedition, when he met Stanley, led to his death from disease. When Stanley finally got through in the 1870s, finding that the Lualaba was not the Nile and vindicating Speke against Livingstone, half of his team died in the attempt. 510pp, photos in black and white and colour. £25 NOW £8


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flags, sport fishing flags and more. For each there is a big colour picture on the glossy card pages of this 24 page spiral bound softback. £9.99 NOW £3


69992 LEGENDARY GERMAN CARS by Peter Ruch


The Mercedes 300SL with its gull-wing doors (W194) was probably the last European dream car of the 1950s. It was one of the first race cars to be used on regular roads. Here are all the obvious names from the Automotive Hall of Fame of famous Germans including the Opel Company founded in 1862 in a firm which first built sewing machines and bicycles. The first German manufacturers included Horch, Auto-Union and Maybach and later with brands like Audi, are still today considered amongst the most prodigious for quality, style and performance. Our huge book celebrates the very best and measures 10½” x 12", 300 pages of glossy colour photos and line art, original advertising and posters and many double page spreads to pore over in admiration of these glossy, sleek machines and record breaking race cars seen on the new autobahns built by the Third Reich. Heavyweight hardback. ONLY £18


69993 LEGENDARY ITALIAN CARS by Enzo Rizzo


It was in Italy that the first internal combustion engine was invented in 1853 and the first mass-produced eight cylinder engine in 1919. In 1922 the Lancia Lambda was the first vehicle in the world with independent wheels and a bearing body and structure and the 1947 Cisitalia 202 became the standard for sports cars. And then you have the first Formula 1 World Championship won by Alfa Romeo in 1950, and the world’s first expressway the Milano-Laghi built in 1923. There is an incredible group of Italian personalities whose names are immediately identifiable - Enzo Ferrari, Vincenzo Lancia, Nicola Romeo, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Alfieri Macerati and Ettore Bugatti to name a few. This wonderful book tells the story of the Italian automobile through men, vehicles and ever-changing conditions. The chapters follow a chronological format that reviews social, economic and political factors like the dark years of the oil crisis and international competition of the 1980s and 1990s. Each car is featured in a huge colour photograph, many across double page spreads, 300pp 10½” x 12". ONLY £20


70469 FIGHTER: Technology, Facts, History by Ralph Leinburger


This book includes a chronology of all the major fighters, from World War I through to modern fighters, shown with technical specifications, illustrations and photographs. The fascination with flight is timeless, and just as true of the eccentric-looking flying crates of 1914 - constructed of wire, wood and fabric - as of the technological marvels bristling with weapons of today. Explore the world of the fighter pilot, both past and present. The Bristol Scout, Fokker E I, Sopwith Camel, Supermarine Spitfire, Junkers JU 88, Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, De Havilland Vampire, Hawker Hunter, Lockheed F-104 Starfighter are among those listed. 320 page softback. Colour illus. £7.99 NOW £4.50


70677 ALONG COUNTRY LINES by Paul Atterbury


This journey back into a more leisurely age investigates closed and disused lines and recreates their charm with photos, postcards and old tickets. The Devon and Somerset Railway from Taunton to Barnstaple was built on the cheap with only three passing-places, and nowadays sections of the route have been lost to farming, road building and people’s back gardens. Despite its remote location, Ely was the meeting point for six lines, five of which are still in operation, with the rural westwards branch of the Haddenham and Sutton Railway closing in 1931. Shrewsbury to Swansea, Ruabon to Barmouth and Blaenau Ffestiniog, Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh, the magnificent Settle to Carlisle and the less famous Carnforth to Carlisle - 24 lines are lovingly recreated with contemporary and archive photography, maps and memorabilia. 256pp, paperback, numerous colour and archive photos. £15.99 NOW £6.50


Transport 33 71041 DAWDLING BY THE


DANUBE by Edward Enfield A regular writer for The Oldie and father of Harry, Edward Enfield takes us on a journey through Bavaria and Poland on an enjoyable cycling trip. Determining the route he should take from recommendations scrawled on a napkin, Edward starts by following the undulating Romantic Road through the woods and cornfields of


Bavaria, closely pursued by fellow countrymen in the form of a television camera crew. After a solo jaunt around the rural back roads of the Mazurian Lakes of Poland, stopping to enjoy the delights of Krakow, it is on to Austria where he rides along the pleasant banks of the Danube from Passau to Vienna, taking in castles and Baroque churches and sampling splendid wine en route. 238pp in paperback with pen and ink drawings. £7.99 NOW £3


70968 HONEY AND DUST: Travels in Search of Sweetness


by Piers Moore Ede


After being seriously injured in a hit- and-run, Piers Moore Ede goes to an organic farm in Italy to recuperate. There a beekeeper shows him the magic of the bee hive and Piers, depressed since his accident, realises that honey might be his salve and salvation. Acutely sensitive to landscape, light, people


and mood, like honey itself, the book has a quiet healing property. It is a story of his quest to seek out the most wondrous honeys in the world, from the terracotta bee jars of the Lebanon to the clay cylinders of Syria. Slowly his personal tribulations fall into perspective against the dwindling traditions of the honey farmers. Hunting wild honey from cliffs with Gurung tribesmen in Nepal, and in the vast jungle trees with Veddah tribesmen in Sri Lanka, Piers finally finds his own sense of regeneration. 294pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


71147 TERRA NULLIUS by Sven Lindqvist


‘The most original work on Australia and its treatment of Aboriginals I have ever read.’ - Phillip Knightley. Sven Lindqvist travels 7,000 miles to Australia, lyrically describing its landscape while telling the history of its country and the shocking treatment of its Aboriginal people. It is his latest instalment in confrontations with the genocidal consequences of Western


advancement. The landscape is brilliantly rendered by this master of worldly insight and stylistic precision who is not afraid to uncover the racism, violence and hatred, political manoeuvring, propaganda and revisionist history. With many maps, line drawings, rock carvings, a description of a boab tree and a satirical cartoon on the effects of desert life on humans in 1903 on page 25. Wide ranging and fascinating. 248pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


70889 GHOSTS OF SPAIN by Giles Tremlett Subtitled ‘Travels through a Country’s Hidden Past’, this edition includes a new chapter which brings the book up-to-date to the 2011 elections. Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe’s most forthright people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War and the rule of General Franco? This apparent ‘pact of forgetting’ inspired Guardian journalist Giles


Tremlett to embark on a journey around his beloved Spain and explore its history further. He found ghosts everywhere, almost always arguing. Who caused the Civil War? Why do Basque terrorists kill? Why do Catalans hate Madrid? Did the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dream of a return to Spain’s Moorish past? Tremlett’s curiosity led him down some strange and colourful byroads and brought him unexpected insights into the Spanish character. We are skilfully transported from the medieval atmosphere to tragic events of modern times. 468pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4.50


71029 IN AN ANTIQUE LAND


by Amitav Ghosh


‘1980, I was in Egypt, installed in a village called Lataifa, a couple of hours’ journey to the south-east of Alexandria. Ghosh moved into a converted chicken coup on the roof of a house in the tiny village in Egypt. During the day he poured over medieval letters sent to India from Cairo by Arab merchants and in the evenings, he shut out by the


bellowing of his fat landlord by turning up the volume of his transistor radio. He wrote stories on what he had seen in the village - of Khamees the Rat, the notorious impotent; of Zaghloul the Weaver determined to travel to India on a donkey and of one-eyed Mohammed, a part time witch, and about himself, known in the village as the Indian doctor, the uncircumcised, cow-worshipping kaffir who would not convert to Islam. The book is the story of his decade of intimacy within the village community, mixing conversation and research, imagination and scholarship. 393pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4


71131 BUDAPEST: Granta City Guide by Michael Jacobs


Encouraging us to discover the city on foot, Budapest was once the elegant second city of the Austro- Hungarian empire, the Queen of the Danube, now one of the liveliest and most attractive destinations in Europe. Equipped with this guide we will discover the distinct characters of the city’s ‘two halves’ - Buda, set on gently rolling hills and, across the river, the energetic, modern Pest. Enjoy the best of its almost 100 thermal springs and 12 medicinal baths, Margaret Island, leafy park in the centre of the Danube where you can cycle or play tennis, and the many cafés and restaurants,


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