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Fall of Eagles, Airmen of World War One

by Alex Revell

By portraying the men at the controls, and using their own voices real and imagined, this book hits a nerve that dry stats do not.

Fleetwood, The Company & the Coachcraft

by James J. Schild 

If all you associate with the name “Fleetwood” is “Cadillac” you are overdue for this book! That connection did not come about until after the Fisher brothers bought Fleetwood in 1925 and made it part of the GM empire.

Shelby Cobra Fifty Years

by Colin Comer

50 years ago, Carroll Shelby contacted British specialist manufacturer AC Cars to build him a car, but with an American V8 engine he was going to supply. This book recaps the history of an American icon.

Custom Motorcycles

by Miquel Tres with Claudia Matheja

A custom motorcycle is a very visible, and often very expensive, way of telling the world you’re different. In a world full of mass-market, cookie-cutter consumer goods anything custom is certainly worth a closer look.

Surviving Fighter Aircraft of World War Two: A Global Guide to Location and Types

by Don Berliner

Some 4000+ of around 750,000 aircraft built for WWII survived—this first of three books offers a guided tour of what they are and where they are.

Form Follows Function: The Art of the Supercar

by Stuart Codling & James Mann

There are stacks of “supercar” and “dream car” books that stitch together superficial words and random photos of sexy cars as an excuse to inflict yet another vapid book upon the world. Not this one.

The Automotive Bibliography

by Denis Veilleux

This book catalogs monographs, theses, biographies, encyclopedias, company and government publications; even buyers’, collectors’, spotters’, and identification guides relating to every aspect of motorization.

Ferrari: 25 Years of Calendar Images

by Günther Raupp 

For more than a quarter of a century Ferrari has offered an “official” calendar, and for the whole of that time one single photographer has had the privilege of being The Man. This book uses select images from Raupp’s calendars to illustrate the story of Ferrari cars.

Ferrari: 2012 Official Scuderia Ferrari Calendar

Highlights from Ferrari’s most recent F1 season, captured in images by three of the big names in motorsports photography. There’s really not much more that needs to be said, but there is always a useful bit of background to further enlighten the viewer.

Ferrari Myth 2012: The Official Ferrari Calendar

by Günther Raupp 

Imagine standing in front of this cover, in all its 27˝ x 19˝ eyeball-searing grandeur. If you do not feel something stirring inside there’s something wrong with you—and you do not deserve to look at it anymore. Only 5000 of these things exist so move over!

The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane

by Piers Bizony

In the summer of 2011 NASA’s only sustained space flight program came to an end after three decades and 135 flights. This book is essentially a lavishly illustrated retrospective of the missions and orbiters.

Porsche by Mailander

by Karl Ludvigsen

Anyone with an interest in photography, and, of course, Porsche 356 race and road cars (especially 550 sports-racing Spyders) will find the many previously unpublished photos in this book irresistible.

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