Aston Martin
The Entire Story
Published on 30. October 2025
Book
Hardback
704 pages
978-1-910505-60-1 (ISBN)
Description
Aston Martin is the Great British survivor among
car manufacturers. Created
as Bamford & Martin in 1913, Aston Martin's subsequent century-long
existence has seen the company go bust seven times,
win the Le Mans 24 Hours and become indispensable transport for a certain movie
spy. This comprehensive and timely two-volume study by Russell Hayes covers
Aston Martin's adventure from the very beginning, setting the cars in context
with the changing automotive world and rivals, and adding insights from contemporary
road tests and first-hand accounts from recent company personalities. Fourteen
chapters make sense of every Aston Martin for both the cognoscenti and the
uninitiated, supported by a lavish array of photographs. This major book is the
last word on Aston Martin.
car manufacturers. Created
as Bamford & Martin in 1913, Aston Martin's subsequent century-long
existence has seen the company go bust seven times,
win the Le Mans 24 Hours and become indispensable transport for a certain movie
spy. This comprehensive and timely two-volume study by Russell Hayes covers
Aston Martin's adventure from the very beginning, setting the cars in context
with the changing automotive world and rivals, and adding insights from contemporary
road tests and first-hand accounts from recent company personalities. Fourteen
chapters make sense of every Aston Martin for both the cognoscenti and the
uninitiated, supported by a lavish array of photographs. This major book is the
last word on Aston Martin.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sherborne
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
600 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 289 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 61 mm
Weight
3808 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910505-60-1 (9781910505601)
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Person
Russell Hayes
is a freelance writer with a broad motoring background in magazines, television
and books. Aston Martin is one of his specialist subjects and with this
two-volume masterwork he achieves a long-held ambition to write the complete
history of the company and its cars, following on from a previous book about
the V8 models from 1969 to 2000 (Palawan, 2019). His other books include
histories of Alpine, Lotus and TVR, and close-up studies of the Volkswagen Golf
and Ford Cortina. Between 2003 and 2019 his writing became a spare-time
activity while he pursued a different career path in the press offices of the
Crown Prosecution Service, the Attorney General's Office and the High Court's
Judicial Office. He lives in London.
is a freelance writer with a broad motoring background in magazines, television
and books. Aston Martin is one of his specialist subjects and with this
two-volume masterwork he achieves a long-held ambition to write the complete
history of the company and its cars, following on from a previous book about
the V8 models from 1969 to 2000 (Palawan, 2019). His other books include
histories of Alpine, Lotus and TVR, and close-up studies of the Volkswagen Golf
and Ford Cortina. Between 2003 and 2019 his writing became a spare-time
activity while he pursued a different career path in the press offices of the
Crown Prosecution Service, the Attorney General's Office and the High Court's
Judicial Office. He lives in London.