The original, published in 1921, is now very scarce. The
narrative tells of the author's experiences in France and Flanders
in WWI. He moved from HQ to the Front Line and witnessed much of
the fighting in 1917 and 1918. The book contains his finely
reproduced portraits of soldiers, officers, and scenes of the
battlefield. Many of these have been rephotographed from Orpen's
original works drawn from the Imperial War Museum in London and
the National Gallery in Dublin. The book which is from a limited
edition of 550, each numbered, has a hand-printed dust wrapper and
is presented in a matching slip case.
IMAGES OF WAR: FALLSCHIRMJAGER:
ELITE GERMAN PARATROOPS IN WORLD WAR II
by Jon Sutherland & Diane Canwell
Taken from an unpublished album which belonged to First Sgt
Wilhelm Plieschen who served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun
Battalion 7. The photographs were taken in Austria, Romania,
Bulgaria Greece and Russia. There are photographs taken on an
airfield on 15th May, 1941 of paratroopers with kit on the ground
and in front of their transport aircraft, plus a number of shots
taken en route to Crete from the JU52 transport. There are also
images showing Germans on the deck of the badly damaged and
abandoned HMS York in Souda Bay.
New in card covers
- 139pp, numerous illustrations
Subtitled
'Independence Won and Lost' and told from the perspective of its
former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of
Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against
Russia. The book, whic features new insights, intimate portraits
of key personalities and a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, will
revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it
continues.
Focus of the 1916 Rising, Dublin’s General Post Office is the most
famous building in Ireland. This book tells the story of the
events in and around the GPO in Easter Week, using eye-witness
accounts, diaries and newspaper reports. It was taken over by the
Irish Volunteers on Easter Monday, 1916, and held for nearly a
week. The rebels finally surrendered the GPO to the Crown forces
after heavy gun bombardment, and the ensuing conflagration reduced
the building to an empty shell and destroyed much of the centre of
the city.
THE MILITARY MUSIC AND BANDSMEN
OF
ADOLF HITLER'S THIRD REICH 1933-1945
by Brian Matthews
Stirring German military marching songs became an enduring
memory of WWII, but who exactly were the soldiers behind this
evocative music and from where did the famous Korps and unit songs
originate? This painstakingly researched book examines a hitherto
overlooked area of German military history and details the
specialist training of Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS military musicians.
Lavishly illustrated with over 1,000 black and white and colour
photographs, it documents their musical instruments, uniforms and
personal effects.
New in decorative boards - Large, landscape format, 320pp, 1000 + b/w & colour
photos
