The Royal Armouries – serie
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Campaign in India
Häftad, 2017
165 kr
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From Captain George Francklin Atkinson, the celebrated author of Curry and Rice on Forty Plates, comes the iconic The Campaign in India. Atkinson, an officer of the Bengal Engineers in the 1850s, sketched the British response to the Indian Rebellion. Widely denigrated for overlooking the Indian …
Littlecote
The English Civil War Armoury
Av Thom Richardson, Graeme Rimer
Inbunden, 2019
467 kr
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The Littlecote House armoury is the most important surviving armoury of the English Civil Wars. This volume describes how the collection was saved for the nation (in part by a sponsored march in original armour from Littlecote to London), and includes a full illustrated catalogue of its contents.
Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century
Inbunden, 2016
467 kr
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The documents surviving from the privy wardrobe, the department which administrated the Tower armoury under Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV, provide a unique insight into the use of arms and armour in late medieval England. Thom Richardson expertly brings these documents to life, showing how …
Stumbling Towards Victory
The Final Year of the Great War
Av Martyn Lawrence, Martyn Lawrence
Häftad, 2018
185 kr
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The First World War tore apart the early twentieth century. Both terrible and terrifying, it banished misplaced optimism that war on such an unconscionable scale could never occur. A century after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, its scars continue to shape our modern idea of …
Art of Prowling
Inbunden, 2019
90 kr
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‘It is extraordinary how reluctant the British soldier is to show cunning. We try to play the game of war as if it had rules for fair play like cricket and football.’‘If you want to make your spell of duty pass quickly, concentrate on prowling properly.’‘By Jove, look! There is a suspicious-looking …
Tudor Power and Glory
Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold
Häftad, 2020
128 kr
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The Field of Cloth of Gold was one of the greatest courtly spectacles of the sixteenth century. A carefully-orchestrated meeting outside Calais between Henry VIII and Francis I, it encapsulated Henry’s imperial ambitions and confirmed the role of the tournament in international diplomacy. Here, …
House to House Fighting
Inbunden, 2020
93 kr
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Do you know that house-to-house fighting is the finest sport on earth?Do you know that is it just the sort of close-quarter scrapping the British excel in?Do you know that once you get going you will love it?Do you want to come with me down our street and play hell with some bloody Huns?You …
British Ordnance Muskets of the 1830s and 1840s
George Lovell's Legacy
Av Adrian Roads
Inbunden, 2023
878 kr
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British Ordnance Muskets identifies and analyses in detail 18 ordnance muskets from the 1830s and 1840s. As well as providing the history and details of the muskets of this important period when the Ordnance transitioned from flintlock to percussion arms, it also covers the impact of two arms …
Defence of Villages and Small Towns
Inbunden, 2025
88 kr
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We are not dealing with the remote future. The Huns are coming. Will they drop from the skies and surround the village?Will sounds of battle will be heard in the far distance?Or will their armoured fighting vehicles will come careering across the landscape?When they come, your village must be …
Road Blocks
Inbunden, 2025
90 kr
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A road block is a tiny battlefield.Here, all the principles of strategy and tactics apply – just as much as when whole armies meet in the field.It is a challenge thrown down by the free world to Hitler and his hordes. A road block is a gesture of defiance that says, ‘Beyond this, you shall not …
Luger Flipbook
Häftad, 2025
54 kr
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The sequence here shows Royal Armouries’ Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a Luger P.08 centrefire self-loading pistol. Sequence shot at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds.
Sten Flipbook
Häftad, 2025
60 kr
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The sequence here shows Royal Armouries’ Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a Sten MK II centrefire automatic submachine gun. Sequence shot at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds.
Sterling Flipbook
Häftad, 2025
61 kr
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The sequence here shows Royal Armouries’ Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a gold-plated Sterling MK.4 centrefire automatic military submachine gun. Sequence shot at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds.
Henry VIII: Arms and the Man
Av Richardson Thom, John Cooper m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
241 kr
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In celebration of the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the English throne, an international exhibition, 'Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill', was held at the Tower of London in partnership between the Royal Armouries and Historic Royal Palaces. Published to coincide with the launch of the …
Eglinton Tournament
Häftad, 2017
61 kr
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The Eglinton Tournament, held in August 1839, was intended to be the most magnificent and glorious expression of the nineteenth-century revival of chivalry. Archibald William Montgomerie, the 13th Earl of Eglinton, spared no expense in transforming his castle and grounds for the event. Eglinton's …
Medieval Art of Swordsmanship
Royal Armouries MS I.33
Av Jeffrey Forgeng, Jeffrey L. Forgeng
Inbunden, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
592 kr
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Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33, also known as the Tower Fechtbuch or the Walpurgis Manuscript, is the oldest-known manual of swordsmanship in the western canon. Dated to c.1310, it is a stunning work of late medieval art and the Armouries’ most treasured manuscript, one so famous it has become …
Defence of Houses
Av G. A. Wade
Inbunden, 2020
93 kr
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'Houses are found in infinite variety. Some are suited for defence, others are absolute death-traps.''Think: is it strong? Has it a cellar? Are its surrounding suitable? Is it capable of all-round defence?''Let me impress upon you once again: let your defence be active; go out and hit the enemy …
