Author: Alec A. Purves
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903754385
Category : Military decorations
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Medals Decorations & Orders of the Great War, 1914-1918
Author: Alec A. Purves
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903754385
Category : Military decorations
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903754385
Category : Military decorations
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Scots Guards in the Great War, 1914-1918
Author: Francis Loraine Petre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World
Author: John D. Clarke
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473814510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in full colour.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473814510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in full colour.
British Campaign Medals of the First World War
Author: Peter Duckers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747811717
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior to 1914, but examples of many of the early types are now scarce. However, few families escaped some involvement with “the Great War” of 1914 18, and many still treasure the medals awarded to their ancestors for wartime service. Today, with a growing interest in British military history and particularly in family history and genealogy, more and more people want to trace their ancestors' past. This book looks in detail at the origin, types and varieties of the British medals awarded for general war service between 1914 and '18, and gives advice on researching the awards and their recipients.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747811717
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior to 1914, but examples of many of the early types are now scarce. However, few families escaped some involvement with “the Great War” of 1914 18, and many still treasure the medals awarded to their ancestors for wartime service. Today, with a growing interest in British military history and particularly in family history and genealogy, more and more people want to trace their ancestors' past. This book looks in detail at the origin, types and varieties of the British medals awarded for general war service between 1914 and '18, and gives advice on researching the awards and their recipients.
British Military Medals
Author: Peter Duckers
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473829836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Fully revised second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling guide to military medals. This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring - British and imperial military history, and to uncovering the careers and exploits of individual soldiers. In a series of succinct and well-organized chapters he explains how medals originated, to whom they were awarded and how the practice of giving medals has developed over the centuries. His work is a guide for collectors and for local and family historians who want to learn how to use medals to discover the history of military units and the experiences of individuals who served in them.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473829836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Fully revised second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling guide to military medals. This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring - British and imperial military history, and to uncovering the careers and exploits of individual soldiers. In a series of succinct and well-organized chapters he explains how medals originated, to whom they were awarded and how the practice of giving medals has developed over the centuries. His work is a guide for collectors and for local and family historians who want to learn how to use medals to discover the history of military units and the experiences of individuals who served in them.
The United States in the First World War
Author: Anne Cipriano Venzon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135684464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Includes six maps.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135684464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Includes six maps.
Tommy's War
Author: Peter Doyle
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785007645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785007645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.
The Battle of Verdun (1914-1918).
Author:
Publisher: Clermont-Ferrand : Michelin
ISBN:
Category : Verdun (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: Clermont-Ferrand : Michelin
ISBN:
Category : Verdun (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
World War I in 100 Objects
Author: Peter Doyle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069816671X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
World War I in 100 Objects by Peter Doyle is a dynamic social history and perfect gift for history lovers. General readers and history buffs alike have made bestsellers of books like A History of the World in 100 Objects. In that tradition, this handsome commemorative volume gives a unique perspective on one of the most pivotal and volatile events of modern history. In World War I in 100 Objects, military historian Peter Doyle shares a fascinating collection of items, from patriotic badges worn by British citizens to field equipment developed by the United States. Beautifully photographed, each item is accompanied by the unique story it tells about the war, its strategy, its innovations, and the people who fought it.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069816671X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
World War I in 100 Objects by Peter Doyle is a dynamic social history and perfect gift for history lovers. General readers and history buffs alike have made bestsellers of books like A History of the World in 100 Objects. In that tradition, this handsome commemorative volume gives a unique perspective on one of the most pivotal and volatile events of modern history. In World War I in 100 Objects, military historian Peter Doyle shares a fascinating collection of items, from patriotic badges worn by British citizens to field equipment developed by the United States. Beautifully photographed, each item is accompanied by the unique story it tells about the war, its strategy, its innovations, and the people who fought it.
Subject Catalog of the World War I Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description