Militaria, Arms & Armour

Between the late 8th and late 11th century Viking warriors had a massive impact not just in northern Europe, but across a huge arc from the western...

In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main c...

The Renaissance is best known as an age of artists Michelangelo, da Vinci, Titian and Holbein but it is also the age of the noble patrons who cha...

The first illustration of a cannon in Europe can be dated quite precisely to 1326. This book explores the development of gunpowder, the earliest ap...

The Royal Armouries is Britain's oldest museum, still partly housed in its original buildings in the Tower of London. The core of the collection is...

The acquisition history and the technical specifics of the Mauser rifles and carbines sold to Chile from 1895 to 1935 As part of its rise as a...

Designing symbolic meaning into ornamentation is a long-standing Western artistic tradition, a practice deeply rooted in classical Greek and Roman ...

This book examines what the citizen soldiery of the mid-Atlantic states wore when they marched off to save the Union in 1861. An exhaustive search ...

Designed by a motorcycle racer turned small-arms engineer, George Patchett, the submachine gun that eventually became known as the Sterling was dev...

The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches...

One of the most feared weapons in the ancient world, the gladius was lethal both on the battlefield and in the arena. Literary sources tell of the ...

The Royal Armouries stunning collection of arms and armour provides a unique historical perspective on visual and material culture from across the ...

* Firearms classic returned to print in a new hardcover series format Three classic texts are presented here in one reissued volume. In the 1940s,...

In the nineteenth century there were thousands of British gunmakers plying their trade the length and breadth of the land building all qualities of...

This book is a comprehensive guide, which will appeal to anyone with an interest in medal collecting. The book contains over 800 illustrations.

As elegant as they are practical, pocket knives have long been considered essential equipment for a gentleman. No cleverly programmed app is able t...

From the beginning of the twentieth century, United States military individual load-carrying equipments were fabricated mainly of cotton duck and c...

Famous throughout the nineteenth century for the quality of its products, the English revolver industry began a steady decline after WWI from which...

The History of Armour 1100 - 1700 offers a detailed account of how armour developed through the Medieval, Tudor, Elizabethan and Civil War eras, ca...

As an iconic symbol of the American GI, the dog tag has gained considerable cultural recognition. This book returns to the origins of the dog ta...

This book provides a convenient reference to the history and characteristics of the self-loading pistols that were adopted by the military forces o...