Alvan Macauley of Packard: Detroit’s Forgotten Automotive Pioneer
by Charles E. Flinchbaugh
So much went right at Packard for so long—surviving the Depression and once outselling Cadillac—and then the company went under anyway, and during the greatest car-buying boom the US had ever seen.
Porsche Decades: An Introduction to the Porsche Story
by Jay Gilotti
So you have twenty feet of Porsche histories already . . . give this one a whirl anyway. Very well thought out, hits all the essential talking points, current up to 2023.
The 102nd Ambulance Company in World War I
by Andrew W. German
The US entered the war late but right away stood up medical services and set up hospitals that would be located many miles behind the front and accessible by ambulance trains. As if trench warfare and gas gangrene wasn’t bad enough, there’s also the influenza epidemic of 1918. Fortify yourselves.
Razzle Dazzle, United States Navy Ship Camouflage in World War I
byJames H. Bruns
You may look at a bedazzled ship and wonder, What’s the Point? Doesn’t it draw more attention now? Unlike straight-up camo, it’s not about blending in but obscuring the target’s distance and shape as well as speed and heading.
Nash-Healey, A Grand Alliance
by Nikas and Chevalier
If you know the marque, you know that there has not been a prior book. If you don’t, this one will take you into a much deeper rabbit hole than just those cars. And if you appreciate intelligent writing and good design you will see here just how much is achievable.
Sea Flight: The Wartime Memoirs of a Fleet Air Arm Pilot
by Hugh Popham
The first published memoir by a British WW II fighter pilot. Not a story of fly-boy derring-do but quiet reflection.
101 Hours in a Zeppelin
Ernst August Lehman and the Dream of Transatlantic Flight, 1917
by Robert S. Pohl
Primarily based on a large trove of letters by a civilian scientist who field-tested new concepts on military airships this book explores a familiar subject from a new angle.
Duchamp, A Biography
by Calvin Tomkins
The guy who displayed a urinal at an art gallery opening? The righteous godfather of postmodernism in the visual arts? The quintessential enigmatic artist? Yep, it’s Marcel Duchamp and here’s his story!
Flying and Preserving Historic Aircraft, The Memoirs of David Ogilvy
by David Ogilvy
Can’t tell roll from bank? Ever put a fuel-soaked rag into your carb intake to encourage combustion? Ever piloted a 1910 triplane, or the first British jet? Ogilvy’s highly polished prose will transport you into the cockpit.
Airway to the East 1918–1920 and the Collapse of No.1 Aerial Route RAF
by Clive Semple
The Arab-Israeli conflict is in the news every day. This book revisits a story related to it but buried since 1919 and deals with early long-distance flying in general.
The Diesel Odyssey of Clessie Cummins
by C. Lyle Cummins Jr.
Cummins is not only the name behind the ubiquitous Cummins Diesel truck engine but also a world speed and endurance record holder. Readers with historical awareness will recognize in the publisher’s name a clever homage to Sadi Carnot, the brilliant young French scientist who is considered the father of thermodynamics.
Tales of Studebaker, The Early Years
by Jan B Young
Thirty-eight historical vignettes from Studebaker’s earliest years provide a look at life in America 1852 to 1930 and the then-nascent automobile industry and more.
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