With a foreword from former Chief of the Defence Staff, Lord Jock Stirrup, new book Reader’s Digest War Stories (RRP £9.99; ISBN 978-1-78020-101-6) brings together personal recollections of the war and more, to tell the story of World War II from every angle. More than 20 facsimile articles from the archives of Reader’s Digest magazine mix first-person stories with individual profiles of wartime leaders, a feature on Winston Churchill’s War Rooms, Cornelius Ryan’s Untold Stories [...]

With a foreword from former royal correspondent Jennie Bond, new book Reader’s Digest & the Royals (RRP £9.99; ISBN 978-1-78020-100-9) celebrates the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a commemorative collection of articles chronicling history as it happened. From the Royal tour of 1954 to the Queen and Prince Philip’s Golden Wedding anniversary, the magazine’s royal correspondents have charted the Queen’s journey from young sovereign to modern matriarch.  A nostalgic memento, the book carefully reproduces original Reader’s [...]

More than just trains, respected transport author Julian Holland explores the full scope of the steam engine’s contribution to the industrial age in new book Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: The Steam Age (ISBN: 9781446301937; RRP £9.99). Each page delves into the intriguing world of steam, revealing absorbing facts and figures on subjects ranging from Cornish beam engines, steam railway locomotives and road vehicles through to ships, traction engines, and steam rollers and the people who [...]

The office is all a flutter with excitement about the next instalments of Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys on BBC2. So far Portillo’s covered some of Britian’s most beautiful stretches of rail and were looking forward to even more this week. Fwmedia’s  David and Charles titles have been leading in illustrated great British railway printing for more 60 years.  We’ve gone through the vaults to find fabulous photos of these wonderful journeys through the [...]