The Art of Prowling is one of a series of training booklets written by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction by the Royal Armouries shows how trainees during the Second World War learned to sneak up on the enemy without being seen.
ISBN-13: 9780948092923
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
Portraiture has long been an important tool for creating, supporting and challenging notions of identity. This book will explore individual and collective identities within naval portraiture and how these are shaped by ideas of gender, class and race.
From the human truths, brutalist architecture and packed tube trains of 1970s London to the vineyards, Renaissance chateaux and riotous festivals of Gascon France, Michael Fell (1939 - 2023) chronicled the world he saw. His exuberant paintings and prints explore the sadnesses, humour and joys of ordinary people in work combining technical freedom ......
As part of the series showcasing prominent figures of Hungarian art Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest is organizing a large-scale retrospective exhibition of one of the most important Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, Margit ANNA (1913 1991), a distinguished member of the art group Europai Iskola (European School).
Previously unpublished, Camillo Palladini's discourse on fencing is crucial to a modern understanding of Italian renaissance rapier play. This stunning illustrated book, a joint endeavour between the Royal Armouries and the Wallace Collection, reproduces every page of the original manuscript alongside a new transcription and translation.
This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the life of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen, charting the rise of the sisters from a childhood in Scotland, to their emergence as amongst the most eminent artists of their day in London, to a quieter yet still highly productive life during their twilight years in rural Suffolk. During the golden age from the ......
The `Armada Portrait' commemorates the most famous conflict of Elizabeth I's reign, and is now on permanent public display in the Queen's House. This pocket guide gives an overview of the context, creation and significance of the Portrait, alongside evaluation of Elizabeth's legacy.
At the height of the Second World War, Britain's skies were alight with dogfights, and its towns and cities bustling with the manufacturing of aircraft. The distant thunder of Spitfires, Hurricanes and bombers became a recurring sound, and rolling landscapes littered with airfields a familiar sight. As the air war transformed Britain's towns and ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423750
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
