Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing

by Ben Hunt

Motorsports revolves around a vast multitude of unknowables, making the hand of fate a fickle one. Money buys many things but not guaranteed success, but without money, nothing is easy. From the Foreword all through the book the common theme is overcoming self-doubt and committing to the mission.

USS Massachusetts (BB-59), From World War II to Battleship Cove 

by David Doyle 

Commissioned in May 1942, USS Massachusetts was the largest ship ever from that particular boatyard. She saw action within months, sinking several ships and today survives as a National Historic Landmark.

Fast, Faster, Fastest: The Bill Sadler Story

by John R. Wright

He designed, built, and raced his own cars, but also aircraft, engines, and drones. Before that he was a guided missile tech—never mind that he had dropped out of school. Smart people lead busy lives, this book covers it, and Sadler lived just long enough to bless it.

Lockheed Constellation: A Legends of Flight Illustrated History

by Wolfgang Borgmann

A fine book with which to start your Constellation discovery, and also to appreciate big-picture factors such as how different the playbook for air travel once was—and how difficult it was to have to deal with Howard Hughes.

USS Arizona (BB-39), From Keel Laying to Pearl Harbor Memorial  

by David Doyle

One of the most powerful warships in the world when commissioned in 1917, Arizona was already slated for replacement when its sinking at Pearl Harbor made it an indelible part of US history.

Fords of the Sixties 

by Michael Parris

The list of famous Fords from this decade is long, with the year 1964 representing a particular high point for quality, durability, and styling—and not just because the Mustang came out that year.

Baldwin Locomotives

The title is straightforward enough, but what do you expect will be in this book? It will almost certainly surprise you; whether it’s a good surprise depends on where you are in your loco knowledge.

Ronny Bar Profiles: Spitfire, The Merlin Variants

by Ronny Bar

The book intentionally omits any sort of technical or operational detail—because that’s already been covered any which way elsewhere. Instead Ronny Bar does what he does best: show hundreds of examples in profiles to keep modelers busy for years.

Fifty Years of Ford F-150, A Pictorial History of the F-150

by Robert C. Kreipke

You may see F-150s everywhere but not the photos in this anniversary book as they are rarely seen or never before published images from Ford’s archive.

Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale

by Patrick Dasse

Leave it to this author to keep finding topics that have been neglected in the literature, or, in this case, by history altogether. Hundreds of pages, hundreds of photos, and an odd case of Alfa’s in-house model playing second fiddle to an outside offering.

Riley & Wolseley Cars of the 1950s, 1960s & 1970s, A Pictorial History

by David Rowe

The cars of the era covered by this book are hardly of the same appeal as the ones that had made the names of these marques. Once illustrious they descended into such obscurity that they are rarely covered in other books.

Fords of the Fifties

by Michael Parris

There was a lot of movement in the US auto industry in the 1950s. Even a behemoth like Ford had to struggle to get out of the doldrums. This book will be followed by one about the 1960s and together they show how Ford did it.

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