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Foundry
Old school gilded covers with detailed engravings and illustrations throughout make these handsome hardbound books from the UK a must.
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 1-901543-00-5
RISINGS AND REBELLIONS 1919–39
Organisation, Warfare, Dress and Weapons. Interwar Colonial Campaigns in Africa, Asia, and the Americas
An earlier volume in this series covered Small Wars and Skirmishes 1902–18. The present volume extends coverage of such ‘small wars’ to the interwar years of 1919–39. After a hiatus during the Great War, when resources were diverted elsewhere, the earlier colonial incursions were followed in the 1920s and 1930s by a process of consolidation involving campaigns against emerging resistance movements, many of which owed their strength to religious fanaticism. Major nationalist leaders such as Abd el-Krim in Morocco and Omar al-Mukhtar in Libya emerged from 1920 onwards, and the spark provided by their resistance to foreign control lit the flame of post-1945 independence movements.
81/2 x 12", 192 pages, 228 b/w illustrations
$ 62.99 |
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Armies of the Sixteenth Century
ARMIES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, THE UNITED PROVINCES, AND THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS 1487-1609
During the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I England was involved in a constant series of conflicts with Ireland and Scotland, and frequently sent expeditions to the territories now known as Belgium and the Netherlands to keep the Spanish and French at bay.
81/2 x 12", 160 pages, 228 b/w illustrations
$ 39.99 |
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1-901543-03-X
Armies of the Sixteenth Century
ARMIES OF THE AZTEC AND INCA EMPIRES, OTHER NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS, AND THE CONQUISTADORES
There has probably never been a single volume with such extensive information on the uniforms and costumes of the European conquest of the Americas. Ian Heath has assembled 247 drawings and other illustrations to depict the native peoples of South America and the eastern parts of North America as well as Spanish, English, French and even German adventurers and explorers. The accompanying text also offers a clear account of the rise and development of the various European colonies. Includes extensive bibliography.
81/2 x 12", 167 pages, 247 b/w illustrations, 12 maps
$ 39.99 |
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 1-901543-01-3
Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia
CENTRAL ASIA AND THE HIMALAYAN KINGDOMS
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the coming to power of anti-Western regimes in Iran and Iraq have brought the territories covered in this book back to prominence after decades of relative quiet. During the nineteenth century these territories which are now part of or border on Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China were the main theater of the Great Game, in which British and Russian agents competed for influence over the native princes.
81&Mac218;2 x 12",167 pages, 174 b/w illustrations, 12 maps
$ 39.99 |
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 1-901543-02-1
Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia
CHINA
Ian Heath has assembled 183 line drawings and 39 photographs to illustrate the huge array of costumes and uniforms worn during this period. Coverage includes the Taipeng and Boxer rebellions, Formosa, the Mongols and Gordon's Ever Victorious Army. Ian Heath's accompanying text is one of the most coherent accounts available of Chinese history during this turbulent period. Includes extensive bibliography. All the volumes in this series have a high quality traditional gold-embossed cloth cover and no dust jacket.
81/2 x 12",167 pages, 222 b/w illustrations, 6 maps
$ 68.99 |
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 1-901543-05-6
SMALL WARS AND SKIRMISHES
1902-1918
This is the first of a two volume series covering early twentieth century colonial campaigns in Africa, Asia and the Americas, ranging from Mexico and the Philippines to Africa and the North West Frontier.
The text covers the political background to each conflict or "police" action and provides a brief campaign narrative accompanied by details of the organization, tactics, dress and arms of the protagonists.
81/2 x 12", 224 pages, 254 b/w illustrations
$ 68.99 |
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 1-901543-09-9
Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Africa
EAST AFRICA
Tribal and Imperial Armies in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1800 to 1900.
81/2 x 12", 184 pages, many b/w illustrations and maps
$ 68.99 |
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