Books published by Crecy Publishing

During World War II, many pilots of both Allied and Axis aircraft met their fate in the peaks of the high mountains across Wales. This book covers the various such aircraft crash sites found in the area south of the latitude of Brecon, which from east to west includes the Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons, to south of Llandoverty and the Presceli Hills in the west. Appendices include a full list of high-ground military losses and memorials to those who perished, as well as a bibliography.

A second selection of unpublished photographs from the E Wallis collection of the Southern railway in its heyday

This is a comprehensive guide to the rolling stock in the current London Underground fleet, produced in the same style as the Ian Allan 'abc' guides to Britain's main railway network

The last years of steam on the South Western railway lines have been brilliantly captured in this collection of colour photographs from the camera of Mark Warburton.

Mike King, a renowned expert in the field of Southern rolling stock, turns his attention to wagons and provides a comprehensive record ideal for modellers and enthusiasts

A chance opportunity in late 2008 enabled the author to access several hundred hitherto unseen views of the Southern Railway in the period 1939-45. A collection which taken as a whole reveals damage and destruction on a scale it is hard to imagine. Yet through all this the railway continued operating, providing a vital link in a national system, which had it failed, could well have been the precursor to unimaginable horror. The Press cameras of the period recorded what they were allowed to take; these photographs show what actually occurred.The book presents no romantic approach. Graphic scenes of damage together with contemporary records of tragedy and heroism blend together to reveal what can only be described as ''The British Spirit.'' The photographs are unbelievable, the story breathtaking. Wartime Southern looks in greater detail at the railways in this period than ever before.

The first of renowned artist David Shepherd''s collections of colour slides - An Artist Among the Ashes: A Photographic Record of the Very End of Southern Region Steam - was published in January 2012. To produce the title, Noodle Books was privileged to be able to access the author''s extensive collection of slides taken during the 1960s when he was travelling around Britain recording the final years of main-line steam operation and producing the iconic works of art for which he is renowned. The first volume dealt solely with the end of steam on the Southern but David Shepherd also recorded steam elsewhere and, published in spring 2013, this collection continues with the story ''north of the Thames'' into the industrial Midlands and North-East where steam traction lasted until 1968. As with the earlier volume, the book includes David''s moving comments about the very end of steam on BR. This is not an ordinary type of railway book. The artist''s eye is ever present to capture scenes and colours so often overlooked and revealing details of light, shade, night and day that make the pictures mesmerising and memorable.

The third and final volume of the Meon Valley series details the last days of the Hampshire branch line