Stile Ducati: A Visual History of Ducati Design
Various authors
The book celebrates the 90th anniversary of a firm that has been making bikes for more than half a century. Nineteen are featured here, mostly in detail photos.
1 of 1 Muscle Cars: Stories of Detroit’s Rarest Iron
by Wes Eisenschenk
Some cars were only ever built as a singular specimen, others ended up solo acts because no other survivors are known. Either way, chances of seeing one in the wild are slim so this book brings 37 examples to you.
Rising Ground and No Room to Turn, A Biography
by Vivien Eyers
When you design, build, and fly your own aircraft—especially if they were never certified—you’ll have some stories to tell. While the protagonist really had no inclination to do that he left enough material behind for his sister to give it a whirl.
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.
The Evolution of Automotive Technology: A Handbook
by Gijs Mom
Different cultures produce different tech. What?? That’s just one of the points this academic text makes, enlisting 125 years of global automobile history to describe the mutually dependent development of technology and society. From engineering to driver behavior, nothing escapes scrutiny.
The Avro Shackleton: The Long-Serving ‘Growler’
by Jason Nicholas Moore
The Shack is indeed named after the polar explorer because they both went on far-away and long-lasting missions to inhospitable places. It entered service in 1951 and stuck around for 40 years and of all the books about it, this is the most comprehensive.
McLaren: The Road Cars, 2010–2024
by Kyle Fortune
Most carmakers build road cars to finance their racing effort. McLaren went the other way. With full access to their archives and personnel, along with driving impressions by automotive journalists, this book seems to tick so many boxes that even company insiders say they learned something.
Trophy Girl
by Marlis Manley
A historic novel, centered around the first national race for stock cars at Taft Stadium in Oklahoma City in July 1957, written by an author whose dad really was the first Grand National Champion.
American Eagles, A History of the United States Air Force (2nd Ed.)
by Daniel Patterson & Clinton Terry
It’s the 75th anniversary of the USAF and the 100th of the NMUSAF so of course there needs to be a book! This is an update of the 50th anniversary book that had been written by a high-ranking British RAF officer.
The Last Enemy
by Richard Hillary
After being shot down in the Battle of Britain this Spitfire pilot endured pioneering plastic surgery to rebuild his face and hands. While recovering, he wrote this memoir, then returned to flying again. Two months later was shot down again, at 23. This time he died.
The Graham-Bradley Tractor, A History
by Michael E. Keller
The Graham Bradley was was considered a rich man’s tractor in the late 1930. Less than 2300 were built over its 3-year production and no more than 500 survive. Here the story is told in the context of American agriculture and overall industrialization.
Formula 1 Portraits: Gli anni sessanta/The Sixties
by Gianni Cancellierii
Drumroll: photos that have never before been published! And really good photos they are too. What can be said about the 1960s that hasn’t been said before? This author weaves candid shots into his overall exposition of a wild time in racing.