Author: Stuart Jeffery Bates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980656701
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
This book explores the Wolseley helmet from its origins in the late 1890s until it fell out of favour during WWII. The book contains numerous excellent colour photos of original helmets, many with their puggaree flashes and other embellishments. It also contains many period photographs and prototype helmets never put into production. The book covers not only British use of the helmet but also its adoption by Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, South Africa as well as its influence on helmets of other countries such as Italy, Greece and Portugal.
The Wolseley Helmet in Pictures
Author: Stuart Jeffery Bates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980656701
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
This book explores the Wolseley helmet from its origins in the late 1890s until it fell out of favour during WWII. The book contains numerous excellent colour photos of original helmets, many with their puggaree flashes and other embellishments. It also contains many period photographs and prototype helmets never put into production. The book covers not only British use of the helmet but also its adoption by Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, South Africa as well as its influence on helmets of other countries such as Italy, Greece and Portugal.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980656701
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
This book explores the Wolseley helmet from its origins in the late 1890s until it fell out of favour during WWII. The book contains numerous excellent colour photos of original helmets, many with their puggaree flashes and other embellishments. It also contains many period photographs and prototype helmets never put into production. The book covers not only British use of the helmet but also its adoption by Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, South Africa as well as its influence on helmets of other countries such as Italy, Greece and Portugal.
Holden's Performance
Author: Murray Bail
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 125012896X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Holden's Performance by award-winning author Murray Bail is the story of Holden Shadbolt, a guileless and matter-of-fact innocent as he passes through the cities and landscape of Australia. His reassuring silent presence and photographic memory make him useful to men of power and women who appear to need his protection. He is surrounded by larger than life figures whose exploits and adventures Holden follows—ex-Corporal Frank 'Bloodnut' McBee, the scrap dealer who woos his mother; his uncle Vern, a shortsighted proofreader who likes facts and eating newspaper with is breakfast cereal; and the crippled artist Harriet, whose twists and curves appeal to Holden as he holds to his own unswervingly straight lines.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 125012896X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Holden's Performance by award-winning author Murray Bail is the story of Holden Shadbolt, a guileless and matter-of-fact innocent as he passes through the cities and landscape of Australia. His reassuring silent presence and photographic memory make him useful to men of power and women who appear to need his protection. He is surrounded by larger than life figures whose exploits and adventures Holden follows—ex-Corporal Frank 'Bloodnut' McBee, the scrap dealer who woos his mother; his uncle Vern, a shortsighted proofreader who likes facts and eating newspaper with is breakfast cereal; and the crippled artist Harriet, whose twists and curves appeal to Holden as he holds to his own unswervingly straight lines.
Generalship, Its Diseases and Their Cure
Author: John Frederick Charles Fuller
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428916873
Category : Command of troops
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428916873
Category : Command of troops
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Khaki Drill & Jungle Green
Author: Martin Brayley
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781847971098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The new paperback edition of Khaki Drill & Jungle Green offers the most detailed examination ever published of the tropical uniforms issued to all three services in the Mediterranean theatre and in South-East Asia during World War II. The evolution of tropical uniforms under the pressure of campaign experience between 1939 and 1945 is traced in Martin Brayley's nearly 300 striking color photographs, showing live models wearing rare original uniforms and equipment, and carrying period weapons, in authentic settings.
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781847971098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The new paperback edition of Khaki Drill & Jungle Green offers the most detailed examination ever published of the tropical uniforms issued to all three services in the Mediterranean theatre and in South-East Asia during World War II. The evolution of tropical uniforms under the pressure of campaign experience between 1939 and 1945 is traced in Martin Brayley's nearly 300 striking color photographs, showing live models wearing rare original uniforms and equipment, and carrying period weapons, in authentic settings.
British Empire Uniforms 1919 to 1939
Author: Edward Hallett
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445688956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A colourful survey of the uniforms and accoutrements of British Empire forces between the wars from 1919 to 1939.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445688956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A colourful survey of the uniforms and accoutrements of British Empire forces between the wars from 1919 to 1939.
The British Navy Book
Author: Cyril Field
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The British Navy Book" by Cyril Field. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The British Navy Book" by Cyril Field. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book-plates of To-day
Author: Wilbur Macey Stone
Publisher: New York : Tonnelé
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of essays on bookplates by various authors.
Publisher: New York : Tonnelé
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of essays on bookplates by various authors.
The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Great War as I Saw it
Author: Frederick George Scott
Publisher: Toronto, Goodchild
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher: Toronto, Goodchild
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Britains Toy Soldiers
Author: James Opie
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473885159
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This is the first full-colour history of the world-famous toy soldiers to chart the whole story of their development from Victorian table toy to 21st Century collectable. Prior to 1893 the family toy business of the Britain family was struggling as the toy industry was dominated by German manufacturers and importers. Then came the fateful decision first to import, then to design and manufacture, toy soldiers, an area the German firms were particularly strong in. Britains Toy Soldiers were born and soon their boxes stamped with the slogan 'Best Quality English Make' were being eagerly opened by little boys across Britain and then around the world. The rest, as they say is history and it is all captured here by James Opie, the world's leading expert on the subject, as he lovingly traces the varying fortunes of arguably the most famous British toy company. Illustrated with lavish colour photographs, many of them featuring items from the author's own collection, the book includes feature sections such as collectors' favourites and prices, high-value and famous sets, artistic highlights, quirks and mysteries. It is without doubt the most authoritative book on the subject and will be welcomed by the thousands of devoted collectors world wide as well as many more with fond memories of childhood battles with these beautiful toys.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473885159
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This is the first full-colour history of the world-famous toy soldiers to chart the whole story of their development from Victorian table toy to 21st Century collectable. Prior to 1893 the family toy business of the Britain family was struggling as the toy industry was dominated by German manufacturers and importers. Then came the fateful decision first to import, then to design and manufacture, toy soldiers, an area the German firms were particularly strong in. Britains Toy Soldiers were born and soon their boxes stamped with the slogan 'Best Quality English Make' were being eagerly opened by little boys across Britain and then around the world. The rest, as they say is history and it is all captured here by James Opie, the world's leading expert on the subject, as he lovingly traces the varying fortunes of arguably the most famous British toy company. Illustrated with lavish colour photographs, many of them featuring items from the author's own collection, the book includes feature sections such as collectors' favourites and prices, high-value and famous sets, artistic highlights, quirks and mysteries. It is without doubt the most authoritative book on the subject and will be welcomed by the thousands of devoted collectors world wide as well as many more with fond memories of childhood battles with these beautiful toys.