Product Description: Steam engines and steam railways have a long, fascinating history, with many exciting areas to explore. Whether you are visiting a steam railway, or simply want to know more about how steam railways helped to develop the modern world, this is the book for you...read more

Product Description: Reading has been transformed in the last century or so. It has gone from being a Victorian manufacturing town to a major centre for service industries and cutting-edge technology. It was, and still is, an important railway town, but both its appearance and its operation have been dramatically changed by the motorcar and the aeroplane...read more

Product Description: The Little Book of the 1970s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from the swinging sixties to the punk-rock seventies. Here are dramas, tragedies, scandals, and characters galore, all packaged in an easily readable "dip-in" format...read more

Product Description: Stuart Hylton looks at the way that Britain has undergone fundamental changes since the beginning of the railway age, and the contribution the railways have made to those changes. Over the last 170 years their impact has not just been on the physical landscape, but also on the social landscape...read more

Product Description: The Little Book of Berkshire is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people, and events in the city, from its earliest origins to the present day. Here you can read about the important contributions Berkshire has made to the history of the nation, and meet some of the great men and women, the eccentrics, and the scoundrels with which its history is littered...read more

Product Description: The Great War of 1914-1918 was the world’s first total conflict. It drew the whole population into the war effort as never before. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labor market...read more

Product Description: The Little Book of the 1950s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from post-war austerity to the swinging sixties. There are dramas, tragedies, scandals, and characters galore, all packaged in an easily readable "dip-in" format...read more

Product Description: Reading: The 1950s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from post-war austerity to the swinging sixties. There are dramas, tragedies, scandals and characters galore, all packaged in an easily readable 'dip-in' format...read more

Product Description: Inspired by true events, D. C. Wiggins tells a story of disappointment, pain, temptation, and betrayal. Emotional depravity and the lack of communication threaten to drive Malik and Desiree completely apart as he endures a long, hard recovery from a brain surgery that removed a benign tumor...read more

Product Description: Reporting the Blitz takes a fresh look at the home front during World War Two, using local newspaper archives from around the country to throw light on some relatively neglected aspects of those years. It explores the unspoken attitudes and values of those wartime communities; the ways in which local firms sought sometimes unexpected business opportunities from the hostilities; how officialdom and the local media sought to jolly the community along, and to keep bad news from them...read more

Product Description: John Betjeman said no town hides its history better than Reading, but history there is in abundance, and it has been richly documented since the dawn of the photographic era. Reading was one of the first towns in the world to be photographed: William Henry Fox-Talbot, the inventor of modern photography, set up his workshop here and the streets of the 1840s town became the test-bed for the new technology...read more

Product Description: The emergence of the motor car transformed the 20th century. This illustrated book examines the earliest history of the motor age, explaining the first attempts to develop a self-propelled road vehicle. Often these early pioneers employed strange and dangerous tactics in their quest for the motor car, but nonetheless by 1914 and the outbreak of World War I, the broad outlines of the modern car were firmly in place...read more

Product Description: In June 1940 Britain's front-line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel Hitler's all-conquering forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of Dunkirk...read more

Product Description: The traditional image of the Home Front in the Second World War is of cheery Londoners, singing along to Vera Lynn on the radio and making do and mending as bombs burst all around them. But there was another side to life in wartime Britain, a side many would like to forget...read more

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Product Description: For those who had the misfortune to miss out on the decade, this is their chance to find out what all the fuss is about.

Product Description: Taking a nostalgic yet irreverent look at Britain in the 1950s, this book begins in the drab atmosphere of the early post-war years. It ends with the brash new world of the swinging sixties, which brought the Beatles, the miniskirt and Mini car...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Reading: The 1950s Stuart Hylton gives a fascinating account of the town and its people during a decade of rapid and memorable change. The book recalls how television and labour-saving appliances revolutionised the home, and how the motor car began to dominate travel and to alter the character of the town...read more