On The Prowl, The Definitive History of the Walkinshaw Jaguar Sports Car Team

by Neil Smith

TWR was associated with several marques, not to mention a great variety of privateer efforts, but the relationship with Jaguar was a particularly bright one and very much deserving of a book as exceptional as this.

The Heroes We Needed

The B-29ers Who Ended World War II and My Fight to Save the Forgotten Stories of the Greatest Generation

by Trevor McIntyre

This is not another color-within-the-lines aircraft history. If you have an imagination, it’ll hit you were it hurts. And, sure, you’ll learn plenty.

Curtiss Aerocar, 1928–1940

by Andrew Woodmansey

The “aero” in the name has nothing to do with Curtiss’ main claim to fame, aeroplanes, but alludes to the slippery shape that lets this “Motor Bungalow” cruise at a higher speed than some cars of the day could reach.

Mustang: 60 Years

by Donald Farr

Now in its seventh generation, the Mustang has been in continuous production since 1964. More importantly, it has remained the “type” of car it started as—although it did have its bloated periods—with only the Mach-E departing entirely from form.

The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain: Watson Watt, Henry Royce, Sydney Camm & RJ Mitchell

by David Coles & Peter Sherrard

Radar, airframes, and aero engines played a key role in this predominantly aerial engagement. This book presents bios and work histories of four of the men in the design offices in the years before the war.

Curtiss Motorcycles: 1902–1912

by Richard Leisenring Jr

If you know your contemporary exotic machinery you know niche maker Curtiss Motorcycles—but that’s not the Curtiss of this book, the champion bicycle racer most remembered as an aviation pioneer contemporary with the Wright Brothers.

Porsche Racing Cars: 2006 to 2023

by Brian Long

The latest installment in this trilogy picks up the story when Porsche resumed motorsports activities after a few low-profile years and considers both works and customer contenders.

The Saga of the Willys Aero

From Second Fiddle to the Jeep to Proudly Wearing the Ford Badge, 1952–1971

by Mark L. James

How an obscure American compact car was built by four different automakers, over twenty years, on two continents, and helped launch the Brazilian auto industry.

When Wedge had the Edge

by Gautam Sen

Not every car design that is pointy on one end and thick on the other qualifies as a wedge. If this is news to you, or if you thought wedge styling had its moment half a century ago and was then relegated to the margins of history, read this book.

Art of the Automobile in Miniature

by Gerald Amery Wingrove

It’s not surprising to learn that this master model maker started out as a lathe operator. What is surprising are the heights he reached, and the prices his work commands.

Motorcycle Passion

by Michael Köckritz, editor

A big, juicy book. Lots of photos. Interesting layouts and typefaces. It’s easy to put this book down and think, Why? As in Why Bother? Not so fast.

I Worked on Spitfires

The Memoirs of a Member of RAF Groundcrew and his Part in the Victory in Europe

by Ronald L. Chapman

Even after all these decades since WWII ended there are still new voices to shed light on increasingly forgotten things, in this case the foreign pilots who fled countries that had fallen to the Germans offering their services to the RAF.

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