Ottawa: Service Publications, 2008. — 75 p. Used in World War I, after the re-introduction of formation badges by the British Army in 1941, the Canadian Army followed suit. The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division used a "battle patch" system of geometric shapes identifying individual brigades and battalions, similar to that used by the 2nd Canadian Division in the First World War,...
Parma: Ermanno Albertelli Editore, 1989. — 143 p. Gli Alpini sono le truppe da montagna altamente specializzate dell'Esercito Italiano, come lo erano per il Regio Esercito. Costituiti il 15 ottobre 1872 a Napoli, gli Alpini propriamente detti sono il più antico Corpo di Fanteria da montagna attivo nel mondo, originariamente creato per proteggere i confini montani settentrionali...
Madrid: Aldaba Militaria, 1990. — 201 p. La Guardia Civil es un instituto armado español y una de las dos fuerzas de seguridad de ámbito nacional, junto con el Cuerpo Nacional de Policía. Como gendarmería, tiene naturaleza militar y cumple, entre otras, funciones de policía, dependiendo de los Ministerios de Interior y de Defensa. La historia de la Guardia Civil en España...
Nantes, France: Bertrand Malvaux, 2009. — 220 p. A well-illustrated and annotated sales catalogue of primarily French militaria, with an emphasis on the Napoleonic era. Swords, buttons, powder flasks, firearms, accoutrements, uniform items, prints of uniforms, and even a regimental dog collar.
Nantes, France: Bertrand Malvaux, 2009. — 220 p. A well-illustrated and annotated sales catalogue of primarily French militaria, with an emphasis on the Napoleonic era. Swords, buttons, powder flasks, firearms, accoutrements, uniform items, prints of uniforms, and even a regimental dog collar.
Chippenham, England: Picton Publishing, 1989. — 114 p. An introduction to the role of animals used for communications within the British Army. Topics include animal transport in India (elephants, of course), the cable wagon and cable cart, camels and communications, messenger dogs, the pigeon service. This book contains over 90 illustrations showing a variety of animals...
Tournai, Belgique: Casterman, 1979. — 151 p. Les Guerres d'Indépendance, de Sécession, du Mexique. L'Epopée du Far-West. Liliane et Fred Funcken sont reconnus comme des auteurs classiques de la bande dessinée franco-belge. Mais ils sont également célèbres dans le domaine de l'uniformologie, ce domaine qui appartient à la recherche historique et qui est consacrée aux uniformes...
Tournai, Belgique: Casterman, 1979. — 151 p. Les Guerres d'Indépendance, de Sécession, du Mexique. L'Epopée du Far-West. Liliane et Fred Funcken sont reconnus comme des auteurs classiques de la bande dessinée franco-belge. Mais ils sont également célèbres dans le domaine de l'uniformologie, ce domaine qui appartient à la recherche historique et qui est consacrée aux uniformes...
Karachi: K. T. Shahani Educational Printing Press, 1944. — 308 p. Subtitled Being the Sorry Tale of Two American Soldiers in India , it begins with the word "dysentery". It is the fictional story of Private Joe Betz and Corporal Mordaunt Witherspoon, U.S. Army, late of Brooklyn, New York. Left behind to recover from illness in a hospital at one end of India during World War II,...
Helion and Company, Solihull, England 2017. — 192 p. The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army - and in particular, its Folgore Parachute Division on behalf of the Axis Alliance - is frequently overlooked. Initially created to emulate the German Fallschirmjäger in order to carry out...
Point Pleasant, NJ: Winged Hussar Publishing, 2013. — 178 p. Gabriel Raspe's portraits of the Polish Army in 1775 prior to the first partition are one of the earliest and complete representations of the Polish Army in the eighteenth century. For almost two hundred years this complete work has not been readily available, but Vincent W. Rospond has edited this translation, making...
New York: W. W. Norton, 1985. — 367 p. This book brings together the lives of eight of Queen Victoria's most renowned and idiosyncratic generals, men who helped create the British Empire and whose lives reflect the vigor and diversity of the age. They are: Hugh Gough, Charles Napier, Charles Gordon, Frederick Roberts, Garnet Wolseley, Evelyn Wood, Hector Macdonald, and Herbert...
Simon & Schuster, New York: 1997. - 393 p. From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to...
New York: Basic Books, 1999. — 446 p. In this retelling of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr, historian Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world of 1804, a chaotic and fragile time in the young country as well as a time of tremendous global instability. The success of the French Revolution and the proclamation of Napoleon as First Consul for Life had...
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2001. — 308 p. Zoologist Ronald Orenstein takes an in-depth look at turtles, tortoises, and terrapins worldwide. With facts, photography, rigorous research, and informative commentary, Survivors in Armor covers all aspects of turtle evolution, life, history, and conservation.
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2001. — 308 p. Zoologist Ronald Orenstein takes an in-depth look at turtles, tortoises, and terrapins worldwide With facts, photography, rigorous research, and informative commentary, Survivors in Armor covers all aspects of turtle evolution, life, history, and conservation.
Braceland Brothers, Philadelphia: 1981. — 310 p. Elizabeth Griscom Ross, also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the second official U.S. flag, accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Betsy Ross was not a myth. She was a warm, compassionate woman and the product...
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. — 282 p. First published in French under the title 1789: Les Révolutions de la liberté et de l'égalité . This book examines the European world before 1789, recounts the history of the revolution in France itself and then explores its monumental impact on European society. The book focusses on the causes of this impact and discusses the levels of...
Guilford, Connecticut: TwoDot Books, 2001. — 151 p. Sacagawea tells readers of her extraordinary life with the Corps of Discovery with a combination of oral traditions, scholarly research, historical anecdotes, and images from a multitude of collections. Sacagawea, meaning “Bird Woman,” was born a Shoshone girl around 1789. At about age eleven, she was taken from her tribe and...
Paris: Les Éditions de la Framoisière, 1997. — 248 p. Les goumiers marocains sont des soldats appartenant à des goums, unités d’infanterie légères de l'armée d'Afrique composées de troupes autochtones marocaines sous encadrement essentiellement français. Ces unités ont existé de 1908 à 1956. Chaque goum est commandé par un capitaine français assisté d'un lieutenant et huit...
Cooper Square Press, 2001. — 269 p. Author Fitz-Enz researched and produced a PBS documentary that examined the leaders on both sides of the conflict and their actions during the battle. His research brought to light numerous documents, including diaries and secret battle orders, that reveal new insights into the battle. His descriptions of the confrontation in the pages of The...
New York: Walter Reade Organization, [1968]. — 35 p. The Mosfilm production by Sergei Bondarchuk of an epic film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace was released to international audiences by the Walter Reade Organization. For United States theaters the movie was shown over two nights and accompanied by this program. Besides acting and production credits, it contains a...
Middlebury, CT: Velocity Print Solutions, 2013. — 65 p. The compelling importance of female attire in association with societal expectations has a long standing tradition, especially throughout significant periods in history. Therefore nurses' uniforms needed to not only function in various conditions of this profession, but also needed to adhere to certain aspects of...
Hugh Evelyn Limited, London: 1965. — 45 p. The years 1793-1815, period of the Revolutionary War with France, and the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, are not only the most celebrated in the annals of the Royal Navy, but also the most popular for collectors of naval and military prints, paintings and relics. As a result, contemporary illustrations of naval costume, whicher...
Romford, England: The Pompadour Gallery, 1998. — 8 cards. Eight full-color postcards illustrating past British Royal Marine uniforms, of both the Royal Marine Artillery (RMA) and Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI).
Upton-on-Severn: Square One Publications, 1995. — 226 p. Lieutenant-Colonel Silvanus 'Bertie' Bevan's memoirs of 27 years service in the Suffolk Regiment, including his childhood in Cyprus, active service on the Northwest Frontier, the 50th Indian Parachute Brigade in the Burma Campaign, guerilla war in Malaya, and final command of the regiment in the British Army of the Rhine...
М.: Железнодорожное Дело, 2000. — 16 отркыток. Эволюция форменного костюма железнодорожников России. Развившийся государственный чиновничий аппарат подхватил основные особенности военной формы. В то же время сама форма являлась дисплинирующим факторм. Различие формы по профессиональной специфике требовало добросовестного отношения к выполнению свох обязанностей.
Avon: Geoff White Ltd., 1988. — 12 cards. Twelve full-color postcards illustrating uniforms of the the British Yeomanry from the Grimston Yeomanry of 1794 to the East Riding of Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry of 1908.
Prime Books, 2018. — 576 p. This tenth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-four stories. Extracurricular Activities • [The Machineries of Empire] • (2017) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee Emergency Protocol • (2017) • short story by Lettie Prell Winter Timeshare • [Istanbul Protectorate • 1] • (2017) • short story by Ray Nayler The Hermit of Houston...
Warwick: Helion & Company Limited, 2018. — 250 p. Britain was totally unprepared for war with France in 1793 and relied on German auxiliaries to supplement her own meager resources to pursue her strategy in the Low Countries and beyond. The contingents were drawn from the smaller German states, whose armies still followed the rigid linear tactics of Frederick the Great. They...
Romford, England: The Pompadour Gallery, 1986. — 6 p. Six full-color postcards illustrating past British army uniforms of various London-based volunteer units. Honourable Artillery Company, Westminster Dragoons, Royal Fusiliers, London Rifle Brigade, London Scottish Regiment, and Queen's Westminster Rifles.
Кїев: Радянська Україна, 1990. — 18 открыток. Комплект из 18 цветных открыток (на украинском и русском языках). Редакция украинских календарей и художественных открыток.
Potsdam: Keubke Atelier, 1990. — 3 Karten. Die Russische Kolonie Alexandrowka in Potsdam, 1826 errichtet, ist sicher das eigenwilligste Denkmal, das je von einem König gestiftet wurde: Ein Parkdorf nach russischem Vorbild, bewohnt von russischen Sängern, die einst als Kriegsgefangene an den preußischen Hof gekommen waren.
Vantage Press: New York, 1969. — 190 p. This is the autobiography of Lucille (Jerry) Winnie, who was born in Oklahoma and raised on reservations in Oklahoma and Montana. After seven years at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, Winnie became a teacher for the U.S. Indian Service. In 1963 she became director of arts and crafts on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in...
Avon: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2022. — 12 images. Twelve historic photographs from the Museum's collection feature survivors who all took different journeys to their safe havens the world over, reaching them through determination, persistence, and good fortune.
Portsmouth: Royal Marines Museum, 1990. — 12 p. Twelve full-color postcards illustrating past uniforms of the British Navy's Royal Marines, being reproductions of paintings by Charles Stadden in the Royal Marines Museum, Portsmouth.
Solihull, England: Helion & Company, 2017. — 133 p. The translated memoirs of Panfil Nazarov (later Monk Metrophanes) of the Guard's Finland Regiment, Ivan Menshoy Ostroukhov of the Uhlan Regiment of the Guard, and Ensign Rafail Mikhaylovich Zotov of the Saint-Petersburg Militia. The campaigns described are from 1812-1814.
Waszawa: Fenix Editions, 1990. — 36 cards. Text and illustrations by J. Skalski, B. Wróblewski J Krzywania, and S. Frątczak. Six sets of cards from a series describing the history of Polish Army uniforms, badges and insignia during the 1914-1947 period. The sets cover the Battle of Warsaw 1920, Carpathian Brigade 1940-42, chaplains 1914-39, general officers 1918-1920, and the...
Avon, England: Geoff White Ltd., 1989. — 6 p. Six full-color postcards illustrating contemporary British army uniforms of the Cheshire, Green Howards, King's Own Scottish Borderers, and Queens Lancashire regiments, and Artillery.
Geoff White Ltd., Avon, England: 1990. — 6 p. Six full-color postcards illustrating contemporary uniforms of the Intelligence Corps of the British Army, whose motto is manui dat cognitio vires (Knowledge Gives Strength to the Arm).
Geoff White Ltd., Avon, England: 1987. — 7 p. Seven full-color postcards illustrating contemporary British army uniforms of the Artillery, Engineers, Transport, Signals, Ordnance, and Gordon Highlanders.
Fort Eustis, Virginia: U.S. Army Transportation Center, [n.d.] — 70 p. This training book was created by the Infantry School at Fort Benning to provide instruction in the weapons fielded in the 1970s. These include the M16A1 rifle, M60 machinegun, M2 Browning machinegun, M203 40-mm grenade launcher, M72A2 light antitank weapon (LAW), and M202A1 multishot rocket launcher 66-mm....
San Francisco: Bellerophon, 1975. — 40 p. A Bellerophon coloring book of New England soldiers and sailors of the American Revolution, in uniforms never before published.
Romford, England: The Pompadour Gallery, 1986. — 6 p. Six full-color postcards illustrating uniforms of Essex regular, territorial, volunteer, and yeomanry units, in full dress between 1905 and 1913.
Romford, England: The Pompadour Gallery, 1988. — 6 p. Six full-color postcards illustrating uniforms from the British Empire countries and territories of Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia, West Indies, Malta, Hong Kong, West Africa, Ceylon, and South Africa.
Tucson, Arizona: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2002. — 304 p. The Navajo language-notoriously difficult to translate under the best circumstances-proved an ideal top-secret medium for confounding the Japanese in World War II and transmitting combat intelligence quickly and accurately. It was the only code that the Japanese were never able to crack. Using first-person accounts,...