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.

When the first Tiger Moth lifted off from de Havilland's Stag Lane Aerodrome in 1931, few could have thought that this fabric-covered biplane would become an iconic airplane in its own right, recognized all over the world and still in widespread flying service more than 80 years later. Designed to meet a British Air Ministry specification for a completely new basic training aircraft, the 'Tiger', as the Tiger Moth soon became known, was a popular and versatile aircraft. Although Tiger Months were fitted with machine guns and even bombs, and also flew on skis and floats, it was as a wartime trainer that the aircraft found fame. Over 8,700 Tiger Moths were built and tens of thousands of WWII British and Commonwealth air force pilots learned their trade on the type. Remarkably the Tiger Moth remained in military service as late as the 1960s. During the austerity years following WWII the ready supply of surplus ex-military Tiger Moths which could be put into operation for a few hundred pounds, meant that Tiger Moths quickly became the stalwart of flying schools and clubs through the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The aircraft was also used as a crop sprayer, glider tug, wing walker platform, joy rider and air ambulance. Even today, there are at least 600 airworthy Tiger Moths around the world and they remain an everyday sight in the summer skies above many an airfield. Written by the acknowledged world expert on the type, Tiger! is the most comprehensive and readable account of this remarkable and versatile aircraft, a fitting tribute to a true aviation icon.

A second selection of unpublished photographs from the E Wallis collection of the Southern railway in its heyday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

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.