Could the event that led to the outbreak of the First World War have been prevented? Lisa Traynor explores the development of modern pistols and the fabric of the bulletproof vest owned by Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. She asks the question: if the Archduke had worn his body armour on the day of his assassination, could it have saved his life?
ISBN-13: 9780948092886
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
Georg Bucher, a German infantryman from 1914 had lost almost all of his closest friends by 1918. The last friend he lost, Riedel, was crushed by a tank in one of the last battles of the war. This is his tale in their memory. A sergeant by 1918, Bucher describes nearly every part of the Western Front - the Marne, Verdun,Somme, Ypres, the Vosges ......
A First-Hand Account of Volunteer Aid Workers in the First World War
At the height of the war in 1917, Laurence Binyon spent a month touring Red Cross hospitals and field canteens on the Western Front, talking to the men and women who were serving as volunteer nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, canteen workers and medical orderlies. This is his account of that extraordinary journey and their remarkable heroism.
The Lloyd's Battery 1938-1940 A gunner's perspective
City Boys at War considers a campaign of just eleven months, from September 1939 to July 1940, viewed at the micro level - the perspective of a gunner, his wife, his family and his comrades. In 1938 Alfred Ledger joined the Lloyd's Battery of the 53rd (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, a Territorial Army unit based at ......
In partnership with Intron International Cultural Development, the Unicorn Chinese Artists series features leading Chinese contemporary artists whose works are not yet well known enough outside China. Features new unpublished paintings from Li Lei's collection Commentary by Chinese scholars
Foreword by Elizabeth Avedon, renowned photography curator, consultant and writer The book will appeal to those interested in art and contemporary photography, as well as collectors of art and photography
As we near the end of extensive centennial commemorations of World War I, it nonetheless retains the power to surprise, even shock us. Thats perhaps nowhere more true than in the photographs of the war that have come down to us--countless of them preserved over the decades by Imperial War Museums. The First World War in Focus presents one ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423019
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Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
This is the only known biography of the Scottish Victorian artist, Colin Hunter (1841-1904) who exhibited nearly one hundred art works in the Royal Academy over three and a half decades.
A keen-eyed master story teller meets famous artists and characters from the art world, and brings his extraordinary adventures and discoveries in Europe and the Middle East vividly to life.
