It's always worth remembering that I was reading history books before I was buying Airfix figures and the two are probably of more-or-less equal importance to me. So a recent ebay search found two books that seemed ideal for the 42mm German army I had started building.
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| The books were published by Almark back in 1974/5 and give a lot of useful information about their subject. Plus some nice colour pictures that include things like standards and lance pennons. |
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| By R.J.Marrion, this is the bigger volume with 128 pages. Short history of the units, uniform details, horse colous of trumpeters... a lot of information! |
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| A bit slimmer at 96 pages but still full of information. Author D.H.Hagger. |
There is a third volume to this series - Cuirassiers and Heavy Cavaly - which I haven't got yet. I intend to!
Lovely illustrations Rob, definitely a good purchase!
ReplyDeleteYes. The cuirassiers one says it is dress uniforms in the title - I can live with that.
DeleteI bought these when they first came out and still have them, I don't think I've ever found a better resource for the subject than these.
ReplyDeleteThey are very useful.
DeleteI have these too and excellent books they are. Almark did a lot of good reading and reference material way back when...
ReplyDeleteI'm always amazed at how much they had published - even though I used to buy a lot of their stuff there's always something else!
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