Author: Jack Coggins
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486452573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This crackling survey of military might from ancient Egypt to the modern era spotlights frontline foot soldiers and their weapons, uniforms, tactics, and training. 250 black-and-white illustrations.
Soldiers and Warriors
Author: Jack Coggins
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486452573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This crackling survey of military might from ancient Egypt to the modern era spotlights frontline foot soldiers and their weapons, uniforms, tactics, and training. 250 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486452573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This crackling survey of military might from ancient Egypt to the modern era spotlights frontline foot soldiers and their weapons, uniforms, tactics, and training. 250 black-and-white illustrations.
The Soldiers' Story: An Illustrated Edition
Author: Ron Steinman
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
ISBN: 1577151089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Veteran journalist, Ron Steinman, profiled 76 Vietnam vets. Complete with maps & photographs, their stories are a record of the horrors & fellowship they experienced.
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
ISBN: 1577151089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Veteran journalist, Ron Steinman, profiled 76 Vietnam vets. Complete with maps & photographs, their stories are a record of the horrors & fellowship they experienced.
Soldiers of Freedom
Author: Kai Wright
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN: 9781579122539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Looks at the history of African Americans in the Armed Forces, from Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre to the modern military life.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN: 9781579122539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Looks at the history of African Americans in the Armed Forces, from Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre to the modern military life.
A Black Soldier's Story
Author:
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452901740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452901740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Soldiers' Stories of the War (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Walter Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406879513
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A collection of stories relating events in the earlier stages of World War I told by the soldiers involved, accompanied by 20 illustrations. First published in 1915.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406879513
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A collection of stories relating events in the earlier stages of World War I told by the soldiers involved, accompanied by 20 illustrations. First published in 1915.
The Complete Soldier
Author: David R. Lawrence
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The period 1603-1645 witnessed the publication of more than ninety books, manuals, and broadsheets dedicated to educating Englishmen in the military arts. Written with the intention of creating the a oecomplete soldiera, this didactic literature provided gentlemen with the requisite knowledge to engage in infantry, cavalry, and siege warfare. Drawing on military history and book history, this is the first detailed study of the impact of military books on military practice in Jacobean and Caroline England. Putting military books firmly in the hands of soldiers, this work examines the circles that purchased and debated new titles, the veterans who authored them, and their influence on military thought and training in the years leading up to the English Civil War.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The period 1603-1645 witnessed the publication of more than ninety books, manuals, and broadsheets dedicated to educating Englishmen in the military arts. Written with the intention of creating the a oecomplete soldiera, this didactic literature provided gentlemen with the requisite knowledge to engage in infantry, cavalry, and siege warfare. Drawing on military history and book history, this is the first detailed study of the impact of military books on military practice in Jacobean and Caroline England. Putting military books firmly in the hands of soldiers, this work examines the circles that purchased and debated new titles, the veterans who authored them, and their influence on military thought and training in the years leading up to the English Civil War.
The Soldiers of Fort Mackinac
Author: Phil Porter
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
ISBN: 9781611862812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fort Mackinac was home to more than 4,500 British and U.S. soldiers between 1780 and 1895... Here is the story of Fort Mackinac through the lives and activities of its soldiers. This book is profusely illustrated with more than 150 historic portraits, photographs, and maps -- from jacket flap.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
ISBN: 9781611862812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fort Mackinac was home to more than 4,500 British and U.S. soldiers between 1780 and 1895... Here is the story of Fort Mackinac through the lives and activities of its soldiers. This book is profusely illustrated with more than 150 historic portraits, photographs, and maps -- from jacket flap.
The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Author: Ben La Bree
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Uniforms of the German Soldier
Author: Alejandro M. de Quesada
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783830824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
This book traces the evolution of the German Army uniform from 1870 to the present day, using nearly 800 photographs to offer the reader an unparalleled analysis. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, explaining interesting aspects of the soldiers uniform, insignia and equipment.It begins with the German Empire at its height, with the iconic spiked Pickelhaube and the colonial troops in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and moves on to the field-grey uniforms of the First World War. After 1918, the uniforms of the Reichswehr and the Freikorps are detailed, and then those of the revived Wehrmacht up to the end of the Second World War. The post-war years saw the establishment of the Bundeswehr in the West and East Germanys Nationalen Volksarmee, facing each other across the border of a divided Germany, before reunification in 1991.No other countrys army has undergone such changes in the past century-and-a-half, and this book provides a unique visual record of those changes.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783830824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
This book traces the evolution of the German Army uniform from 1870 to the present day, using nearly 800 photographs to offer the reader an unparalleled analysis. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, explaining interesting aspects of the soldiers uniform, insignia and equipment.It begins with the German Empire at its height, with the iconic spiked Pickelhaube and the colonial troops in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and moves on to the field-grey uniforms of the First World War. After 1918, the uniforms of the Reichswehr and the Freikorps are detailed, and then those of the revived Wehrmacht up to the end of the Second World War. The post-war years saw the establishment of the Bundeswehr in the West and East Germanys Nationalen Volksarmee, facing each other across the border of a divided Germany, before reunification in 1991.No other countrys army has undergone such changes in the past century-and-a-half, and this book provides a unique visual record of those changes.
A Soldier's Sketchbook
Author: Joseph Farris
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426208170
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"New Yorker cartoonist and painter Joseph Farris chronicles his experience in World War II through letters and sketches that he wrote at the time. The letters, some of which are reproduced as facsimiles, are illustrated with photographs, artifacts, and other archival documents as well as newly commissioned maps. The voice of the 20-something narrator in the letters is balanced with the voice of the man today, who interweaves his own commentary into the book to explain gaps in the correspondence. All told, the book is a rich and poignant glimpse at the experience of one man's journey through the European theater of war"--
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426208170
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"New Yorker cartoonist and painter Joseph Farris chronicles his experience in World War II through letters and sketches that he wrote at the time. The letters, some of which are reproduced as facsimiles, are illustrated with photographs, artifacts, and other archival documents as well as newly commissioned maps. The voice of the 20-something narrator in the letters is balanced with the voice of the man today, who interweaves his own commentary into the book to explain gaps in the correspondence. All told, the book is a rich and poignant glimpse at the experience of one man's journey through the European theater of war"--