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Miniatures Adventure => The Great War => Topic started by: whiffwaff on 23 May 2010, 09:17:20 PM
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Mother in law gave me this today...
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky001.jpg)
Infact she gave me all 3 volumes... 1900 pages of photos and drawings from, the start of hostilities to the end, covering all nations and fronts, incl land sea and air...
A couple of shots of the inside of volume 1 taken at random.
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky002.jpg)
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky004.jpg)
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky003.jpg)
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky005.jpg)
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky006.jpg)
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky008.jpg)
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/sculpting-pics/lucky007.jpg)
7,000 illustrations and drawings in total across the three titles.
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Lucky you, what a beautiful book o_o Is the hay wagon story real??
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That's my kinda shit! I have two similar publications, put together from contemporary newspaper and magazine articles and illustrations. Mine are a bit earlier though, one's from the Russo Japanese war, the other from the Franco-Preussian.
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Excellent stuff. I was rummaging through some used books stores this past week but, here in the US, it seems World War I gets very little coverage. Shelves and shelves on WWII and the ACW, but maybe half a shelf for WWI.
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The value is all in the illustrations. The text is pretty "gung-ho" and so partisan as to be irritating nowadays.
e.g. " luckily our plucky chaps were able to gave the perfidious Huns a good pasting...."
My thoughts too. As a sculptor though its very nice to be able to see the back of uniforms etc
Am resisting the urge to do early war figures....