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  • El Cid and the Reconquista 1050-1492 (Men-at-Arms, Volume by David Nicolle

    By David Nicolle

    The very identify El Cid sums up a lot of the certain personality of medieval Spanish battle. It comes from the Arabic al sayyid, grasp or chieftain, and turns out to were given to Rodrigo de Vivar through his Muslim foes. yet used to be it given in reputation of El Cid's victories opposed to Islam within the 'Reconquista' – or simply because this Castilian nobleman used to be as content material to serve beside the Muslims as to struggle them? the tale of the Christian conquest of the Iberian peninsula which gave upward thrust to the legend of El Cid, is right here tested by means of David Nicolle, who outlines the heritage, strategies, palms and armour of the period.

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  • The Army of the German Empire 1870-88 (Men-at-Arms, Volume by Albert Seaton

    By Albert Seaton

    The military of the German Empire was once born out of the as soon as nice Prussian military that Napoleon Bonaparte had humbled on the conflict of Jena-Auerstädt in 1806, in the course of the Napoleonic Wars. The eventual defeat of Napoleon initiated a sluggish technique of army reform that won momentum through the pan-German and expansionist rules of King William I of Prussia and his chancellor Bismarck. This e-book charts the consolidation of Prussian strength and info the constitution of the hot imperial military that was once created after the triumph of the Franco-Prussian warfare of 1870. Uniforms and kit also are tested in complete detail.

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  • Montcalm's Army (Men-at-Arms, Volume 23) by Martin Windrow

    By Martin Windrow

    The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 didn't finish the hostility among the French and British in North the US. The French started via inciting the local tribes however it was once merely in 1756 that struggle used to be formally declared. The newly appointed French basic was once the Marquis de Montcalm-Gozon de Saint-Veran. a super and masses enjoyed officer, Montcalm was once hampered through the sour factional feeling with New France and his victories have been tarnished via the savage buthery of a few of his Indian and Canadian allies. This quantity strains the activities of his military throughout the Seven Years' battle (1756-1763), together with his ultimate defeat to Wolfe at Quebec.

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  • Military Insignia by Derek Avery

    By Derek Avery

    Вопреки названию, данная книга является кратким справочником по численности и вооружению армий, ВВС и ВМС стран мира по состоянию на 1992г. (так вместо СССР уже используется аббревиатура СНГ).
    Книга содержит цветные фотографии солдат и воинской символики различных стран мира.

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  • The German Army 1939-45 (1): Blitzkrieg (Men-at-Arms) by Nigel Thomas

    By Nigel Thomas

    On 1 September 1939, while Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 males. it will definitely extended to 9,500,000, and on 8-9 may perhaps 1945, the date of its unconditional hand over at the Western and japanese Fronts, it nonetheless numbered 7,800,000. The Blitzkrieg interval, from 1 September 1939 to twenty-five June 1940, was once 10 months of just about overall triumph for the Wehrmacht, because it defeated each kingdom, other than nice Britain, that took the sector opposed to it. during this first of 5 volumes analyzing the German military of worldwide warfare II (1939-1945), Nigel Thomas examines the uniforms and insignia of Hitler's Blitzkrieg forces, together with an outline of the Blitzkrieg crusade itself.

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  • Napoleon's German Allies (2): Nassau and Oldenburg by Otto Von Pivka

    By Otto Von Pivka

    On October 14th, 1808, Napoleon persuaded Herzog Peter Friedrich Ludwig of Oldenburg to affix the Confederation of the Rhine through the Treaty of Erfurt - the army contingent to be maintained via the duchy was once set at an infantry battalion of 800 males in six businesses. equally, Friedrich August, Herzog of Nassau, used to be charged, lower than the phrases of the treaty with coordinating and organizing the army efforts of the entire tiny states of its neighbours. during this great addition to Osprey's Men-at-Arms sequence, Otto Von Pivka info the crusade historical past and uniforms of Napoleon's Nassau and Oldenburg allied troops.

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  • The Uniform of the Union Army 1861-1865 by Michael Mcafee

    By Michael Mcafee

    The Uniform of the Union military 1861-1865 КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ Издательство: Greenhill Books Серия: The G.I. sequence - The Illustrated historical past of the yank Soldier Автор: Michael J. McAffe, John P. Langellier Название: Billy Yank. The Uniform of the Union military 1861-1865 Язык: English Год издания: 1996 Количество страниц: eighty two ISBN: 1-85367-238-6 Формат: pdf Размер: 23.1 mb0

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  • The Allgemeine-SS (Men-at-Arms, Volume 266) by Robin Lumsden

    By Robin Lumsden

    The SS originated as Hitler's own bodyguard and following his upward thrust to strength in 1933 the business enterprise divided into : the Waffen-SS, which comprised the army wing, and the Allgemeine-SS, whose function was once to aid the police in protecting order. The Allgemeine-SS had a wide-ranging impression on all elements of lifestyles in Nazi Germany, from implementing Hitler’s racial regulations via to the working of over 500 factories in Germany and occupied Europe. whereas the extra seen armed SS strive against devices obviously acquired all of the exposure, specifically during World struggle II, it used to be the really faceless Allgemeine-SS which wielded the genuine energy.

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  • Dutch-Belgian Troops of the Napoleonic Wars by Otto von Pivka

    By Otto von Pivka

    In a determined try to cease the trafficking of British items, Napoleon absorbed Holland, components of Westfalia, the Duchy of Oldenburg and the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck into Metropolitan France in 1810. The armies raised from those parts fought as allies of the French or as a part of France itself from 1795 to 1813. This booklet examines the heritage, uniforms, orders of conflict and hues and criteria of the troops from the Batavian Republic and its short-lived prestige because the state of Holland. The textual content is more desirable with a variety of illustrations, together with maps, charts and exact color plates.

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