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Uniforms, Arms & Armor

Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear

Splendeur Des Uniformes De Napoleon: Costumes Du Sacre-armes Drapeaux Et Decorations

Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons

Disruptive Pattern Material: An Encyclopedia Of Camouflage
False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage
DPM Disruptive Pattern Material: An Encyclopaedia Of Camoflage: Nature, Military, Culture

Art of Mail Armor : How to Make Your Own

Women at War: In Uniform 1939-1945

Military Uniforms (Twentieth-Century Developments in Fashion and Costume)

American Military Uniforms, 1639-1968: A Coloring Book

The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery

Battles of the Bible
Ancient Armies of the Middle East (Men-At-Arms Series ; 109)
Greece and Rome at War
Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome

Build a Catapult in Your Backyard

How to Distinguish the Saints in Art by Their Costumes, Symbols and Attributes

The Complete Roman Army
Roman Military Clothing (1) 100Bc-Ad200 (Men-At-Arms 374)
Uniforms of the United States Army 1774-1889: In Full Color

Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour

TECHNIQUES OF MEDIEVAL ARMOUR REPRODUCTION: THE 14TH CENTURY

The Art of Making Armour

Complete Bladesmith : Forging Your Way To Perfection

Wee Warriors and Playtime Patriots: Children's Military Regalia: Civil War Era through the Vietnam Period

Gladiators : 100 Bc - Ad 200 (Warrior, 39)

DK Discoveries: Castle at War

Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350 : Western Europe and the Crusader States

Arms and Armor : The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times Together With Some Closely Related Subjects

The Uniforms of the French Army 1660 to 1845

RELIVING THE CIVIL WAR: A Reenactorıs Handbook, 2nd Edition

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Military History [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Barbarian Warriors : Saxons, Vikings, Normans (Brassey's History of Uniforms)

The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe

Living History

Eyewitness: Arms & Armor

Eyewitness: Knight

European Civil and Military Clothing : From the First to the Eighteenth Century 

Medieval Costume, Armour, and Weapons

Medieval Military Costume (Europa Militaria Special, 8)

Japanese Warrior Costumes

Age of Charlemagne (Men at Arms, 150)

Records of the Medieval Sword

Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe, 1000-1568 (Men-At-Arms Series, 195)

Tournaments : Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages

The Mamluks 1250-1517 (Men-At-Arms, No 259)

Armies of Crecy and Poitiers (Men-At-Arms Series, No 111)

Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries

The Army of Gustavus Adolphus : Cavalry (Men-At-Arms No. 262)

Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1560-1605 (Elite Series, 70)

The Samurai : Recreated in Colour Photographs (Europa Militaria Special, 14)

The English Civil War (Brassey's History of Uniforms)

18th Century Highlanders (Men-At-Arms No. 261)

Jacobite Rebellions, 1689-1745 (Men at Arms, 118)

Louis XV's Army (3) : Foreign Infantry and Artillery (Men-At-Arms Series, 304)

Louis XV's Army (4) Light Troops & Specialists (Men-At-Arms Series, 308)

Louis XV's Army (5) : Colonial and Naval Troops (Men-At-Arms Series, 313)

The Austrian Army 1740-80 : Cavalry (Men-At-Arms, No 271)

Frederick the Great's Army : Cavalry (Men-At-Arms, No 236)

Keepers of the Kingdom : The Ancient Offices of Britain

British Redcoat

Frederick the Great's Army : Infantry (Men-At-Arms, No. 240)

Louis XV's Army (2) : French Infantry (Men-At-Arms Series, 302)

Uniforms of the United States Army 1774-1889 : In Full Color

The Army of Northern Virginia (Men at Arms Series, 37)

Army of the Potomac (Men at Arms Series 38)

Uniforms of the French Revolutionary Wars 1789-1802

Nelson's Navy (Elite, No 48)

British Cavalryman : 1792-1815 (Warrior, No 8)

Imperial Guardsman 1799-1815 (Warrior , No 22)

Napoleon's Guard Infantry (1) (Men-At-Arms Series, 153)

Napoleon's Line Infantry (Men at Arms Series, 148)

Military Dress of the Peninsular War, 1808-1814

Napoleon's Light Infantry (Men at Arms, 146)

Napoleon's Guard Infantry (2) (Men at Arms Series, 160)

The Napoleonic Soldier

Napoleon's Imperial Guard : Recreated in Color Photographs (Europa Militaria Special)

Napoleon's Line Cavalry : Recreated in Color Photographs (Europa Militaria Special)

Napoleon's Line Infantry and Artillery : Recreated in Color Photographs (Europa Militaria Special)

Napoleon's Specialist Troops (Men-At-Arms, 199)

The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1) : Infantry 1799-1814 (Men-At-Arms 

Series, 185)

The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (2) : Cavalry 1799-1814 (Men-At-Arms Series, 189)

Austrian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1) : Infantry (Men-At-Arms Series, 176)

Napoleon's German Allies (1) : Westfalia and Kleve-Berg (Men-At-Arms Series, 44)

NAPOLEON'S ELITE CAVALRY: Cavalry of the Imperial Guard, 1804­1815

The American War 1812-1814 (Men-At-Arms, No 226)

Rifleman : Elite Soldiers of the Wars Against Napoleon (Classic Soldiers Series)

Napoleonic Wars Napoleon's Army (Brassey's History of Uniforms Series)

Uniforms of Waterloo : 16-18 June 1815

The Alamo and the War of Texan Independence 1835-36 (Men-At-Arms Series, 173)

The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (Men-At-Arms Series, 56)

Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms

The Apaches (Men-At-Arms, No 186)

Bluecoats : The U.S. Army in the West 1848-1897 (The G.I. Series : The Illustrated 

History of the American Soldier, His Uniform and His Equipment, vol

Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress : European Empires and Exotic Uniforms (Dress, Body, Culture)

Queen Victoria's Enemies (1) : Southern Africa (Men at Arms Series, 212)

Us Cavalry on the Plains 1850-90 (Men-At-Arms Series, No 168)

Queen Victoria's Commanders (Elite Series, 71)

American Civil War Armies (1) : Confederate Troops (Men at Arms Series, 170)

American Civil War Armies 5 : Volunteer Militia (Men-At-Arms, No 207)

American Civil War Armies (2) : Union Troops (Men at Arms Series, 177)

Uniforms of the Civil War : Illustrated Guide for Historians, Collectors, and Reenactors

American Civil War Armies (3) : Specialist Troops (Men at Arms Series, 179)

American Civil War Armies (4) : State Troops (Men-At-Arms Series, 190)

Union Cavalryman 1861-1865 (Warrior, No 13)

Us Cavalry on the Plains 1850-90 (Men-At-Arms Series, No 168)

The American Indian Wars 1860-1890 (Men at Arms Series, 63)

The Horse Soldier 1851-1880 : The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars

The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943 : The United States Cavalryman : His Uniforms, Arms, Accoutrements, and Equipments : The Last of the Indian Wars, the Sp

The U. S. Army, 1890-1920 (Men-At-Arms, No 230)

Spanish-American War 1898 (Brassey's History of Uniforms)

Uniforms & Equipment of the Imperial German Army 1900-1918 : A Study in Period Photographs (Schiffer Military History)

French Foreign Legion 1914-1945 (Men-At-Arms Series , No 325)

German Uniforms of the Third Reich 1933-1945
 
U.S. Army 1941-45 (Men at Arms Series, 70)
 
Afrikakorps 1941-43 (Elite Series)
 
Khaki Drill and Jungle Green : British Tropical Uniforms 1939-45 in Colour Photographs
 
The Panzer Divisions (Men at Arms Series 24)
 
The Waffen-SS (Men at Arms Series, 34)
 
 French Foreign Legion : Infantry and Cavalry Since 1945 (Osprey Military Men-At-Arms, No 300)
 
The Indo-China War 1946-1954 (Men-At-Arms, 322)
 
Red Army Uniforms of World War II in Colour Photographs (Europa Militaria, No 14)
 
Uniforms of the Ss : Sicherheitscdienst U. Sicherheitspolzel
 
The French Army 1939-45 (1) : The Army of 1939-40 & Vichy France (Men-At-Arms Series, 315)
 
The Algerian War 1954-1962 (Men-At-Arms Series, No 312)
 
French Foreign Legion Paratroops (Elite Series, No 6)

Soviet Uniforms and Militaria : 1917-1991

U.S. Army Uniforms of the Cold War 1948-1973

South African Special Forces (Elite, No 47)
 
Brassey's Book of Camouflage (Brassey's History of Uniforms Series)
 
Police Uniform and Equipment
 
U.S. Army Uniforms of the Cold War 1948-1973
 
Armies of the Vietnam War, 1962-1975 (Men at Arms Series #104)

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