Available now: A History of British Rail Engineering Limited (Pen and Sword Books). A new book on one of Britain's biggest and shortest-lived engineering companies. Provides new insights from recently released official documents and company records.
Mud! The common perception of the First World War is of mud, foetid shell holes, broken remains of trees and villages, soldiers wading up to their knees in water in trenches, or climbing out to go ‘over the top’ and walk into hails of machine gun fire. If this was true, how did ‘Tommy’ get time to play football?
Book coming in 2024: The Wantage Tramway (Pen and Sword Books). A new history of the company created in 1875 to carry passengers and goods between Wantage and the nearby Great Western Railway.
Avro Lancaster (2015) Osprey Publishing. This book tells the story of the iconic Lancaster in full, providing a comprehensive account of the design, development and operational history of the aircraft and its evolution into successor aircraft.