Citroën DS: The World’s Most Beautiful Car

by Daniel Denis & Thibaut Amant

Even a car as large as the DS probably can’t hold all the books written about it. This one is different! Photos you haven’t seen before and taken by someone who “gets” the car accompany a solid model history.

Le Mans: The Bentley and Alfa Years 1923–1939

by R.M. Clarke & A.D. Clausager

Hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles capture the early Le Mans exploits of two storied marques. They are written in gripping prose for an audience that didn’t know TV or often even radio.

4 Group Bomber Command, An Operational Record

by Chris Ward

It’s difficult when dealing with numbers and statistics and lists and more lists not to forget that all these data points involve real people and real pain. Chris Ward does well on both counts.

Surviving Bomber Aircraft of World War Two

by Don Berliner

Where are they now, the bombers that returned home? This book points you in the right direction and tells you something about them.

Museo Ducati: Six Decades of Classic Motorcycles of the Offical Ducati Museum

by Chris Jonnum, Photography by Peter Harholdt

About 600,000 people visit this museum every year. This book shows why or will prepare you for your own visit.

Rockin’ Garages

by Tom Cotter and Ken Gross

The music and car culture/s seem particularly and almost inevitably connected which is why this book gives us a look at twenty stars from the popular music world who are also car enthusiasts.

Bodyguard, and Four Other Short Science Fiction Novels from Galaxy

H.L. Gold (editor)

Founded by an Italian company and aimed at the American market, Galaxy was published from 1950–1980 and its stories focusing on social issues rather than technology made it one of the leading science fiction magazines of its time.

Alfa Romeo 916 GTV and Spider: The Complete Story

by Robert Foskett

This popular and competent car never made it to American shores but at last there is now a really good book about it. With Alfa’s imminent (?) return to the US its time for a new generation of enthusiasts to see what’s what.

Reincarnation: Car Parts Reborn

by Lou Carvell

Some cars have parts that have such strong lines that their sculptural qualities can stand on their own. Carvell takes this idea further, much further.

British Experimental Combat Aircraft of World War II

by Tony Buttler

In many ways, aircraft that do not get built or become household names play just as large role in the advancement of knowledge: they show what doesn’t work or isn’t feasible or is ahead of its time. This book is full of them.

Airstream, The History of the Land Yacht

by Bryan Burkhart & David Hunt

Where has the “aluminum-skinned, gleaming silver bullet” aka “The Silver Twinkie” not been to on this planet?? At its prime it wasn’t just a trailer but a subculture whose practitioners crisscrossed the globe en masse.

Rolls-Royce 17EX, a Fabulous Destiny/ein Stück Geschichte

by Gautam Sen

For a carmaker as conservative as Rolls-Royce this 1928 experimental car was quite the statement. But why was it necessary? Is being able to go 100 miles really that important?

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