Paul Frère, My Life Full of Cars: Behind the Wheel with the World’s Top Motoring Journalist

by Paul Frère

He drove in eleven F1 GPs. Teamed with fellow Belgian Olivier Gendebien, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Ferrari in 1960. He had an influence on three generations of automotive writers and here you can read why and how.

Walter Röhrl Diary: Memories of a World Champion

by Röhrl, Müller, Klein

“I didn’t really know why I was so fast and it didn’t really interest me.” Not exactly the words one would expect from the 1980 and 1982 World Rally Champion, a veritable legend in his field who was voted by his peers Driver of the Millennium (2000).

The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft

by David Myhra

WWII left the world with a number of very technologically advanced German twin-jet aircraft designs. The young Hortons were right there and made a mighty contribution.

Flying Freestyle: An RAF Fast Jet Pilot’s Story

by Jerry Pook

This is a book for real flying enthusiasts. Jerry Pook has that ability as a writer to describe his remarkable flying experiences in a dramatic way that puts you in the cockpit with him during his many varied missions.

Yesterday We Were in America: Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-stop

by Brendan Lynch

“Yesterday We Were in America!” Imagine saying that at a cocktail party—in 1919. This is the phrase pilot Alcock kept repeating to the crew of the Marconi radio station near which he had landed, and who simply would not believe him!

The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs

by Richard H Campbell

Nicknamed after the codeword for the project, B-29 Superfortress bombers in Silverplate configuration were the first planes ever to carry nuclear payloads. Here’s the complete story.

Automobile Design: Twelve Great Designers and Their Work

by Ronald Barker, Anthony Harding (Editors)

The book is a collection of biographical essays of 12 designers of whose work the authors say “the current state of the art owes a lot to the knowledge which other designers have absorbed from them.”

Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything

by Stephen Bayley

Everything about this book, inside and out, is “designerly”. It is not an automotive history, nor is it in any way “nuts-and-bolts” as both author and publisher attempt respectively to make clear in the book’s introduction and press material.

Bristol Cars: A Very British Story

by Christopher Balfour

Bristols are rarely mentioned by people outside of GB and especially in the same breath with other luxury British marques. However the firm does rank right up there in the lofty heights as makers of hand-built, limited-production, super luxury machines.

Wheels of Dreams: Vintage Cars and the People Who Love Them

by Tom Strongman

Strongman is a semi-retired newspaperman and his ability to get the story proves the value of such training. Beyond his words however, are the images of his color photography, which is beautifully and artfully displayed throughout the book’s 123 pages.

Peking to Paris, 100th Anniversary Edition

by Luigi Barzini

Barzini was a newspaper reporter by profession and war correspondent, but more than that—as this book attests—he’s a terrific storyteller with a terrific story to tell. He was along on every one of the 8,000 miles on two roadless continents in 1907.

Edoardo Bianchi, 1885–1964

by Antonio Gentile

Bicyclists will instantly relate the Bianchi name to famous professional racing and mountain bikes. Artists may remember that Picasso had a Bianchi bicycle in his studio and thought of it as “one of the most beautiful sculptures in the history of art.”

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