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Happy New Year from OMM!
Hope you had an exciting holiday season!
OMM starts up the year for you nautical fans with a host of naval books:
A trio of battleship technical reference books from Art by Wayne (all here in two to three weeks):
French Battleships 1933-1970 - from the Gunnery Training ship Condorcet to the Richelieu class, and the canceled Alsace class - $30 USD, 100 pgs.
Italian Battleships 1928-1957, from Dante Alighieri to Roma and the canceled Impero - $28 USD, 78 pgs.
US Battleships 1941-1963, from the U.S.S Utah to the canceled U.S.S Louisiana, along with the CB1, CC1 and BB49 1922 class - $36 USD, 140 pgs.
BLUEJACKETS: Uniforms of the U.S. Navy 1852-1865 - 9x12, 300+ b/w & color illust/photos. Details of the uniform clothing, headgear, equipage, and weapons of the U.S. Navy during the ACW. Numerous photos of surviving articles of clothing etc. 1 vol, 240 pgs, 2008, ATGLEN, SCHIFFER BOOKS new-dj $80 USD
We also obtained a shipment of many used naval books (one copy each) - see the website for details.
19th CENTURY:
Uniforms of the German Colonial Troops 1884-1918, 11x8.5, 280+ b/w & color illust/photos. Illust by Germany's leading 19th and 20th century artists, 60+ unpublished photos from the album of a III.See-Bataillon Marine stationed at Tsingtau Naval Base 1 vol, 192 pgs, 2008, ATGLEN, SCHIFFER BOOKS new-dj $70 USD
French Fortifications, 1715-1815: An Illustrated History. Description with illustrations from the death of Louis XIV to the fall on Napoleon, focusing on the Napoleonic era. Nearly 250 b/w line drawings of Vauban, Gribeauval's artillery reforms. Biblio. 1 vol, 282 pgs 2009, U.S., McFARLAND & COMPANY new-pb $50 USD
SEVEN YEARS WAR
1760 ARMAGEDDON: The Journal of Col. Horace St Paul 124 plates of maps, sketches, o/b's. Includes the battles/actions at Landeshut, Liegnitz, Stupitz. Also the Raid on Berlin, the Siege of Dresden and Glatz and numerous lesser engagements. 1 vol, 346 pgs, 2009, U.K., GRALENE BOOKS new-pb $100 USD
NAPOLEONIC UNIFORM PRINTS
More gorgeous color prints from Peter Bunde. Full color uniforms and flags on front, explanatory text on reverse. $15 USD each (from Germany, in stock now):
224 Saxony: National Guard of Dresden Citizens
225 Saxony: Gensdarmerie of Dresden Citizens
226 Bruswick: 1st Light Battalion 1814-1815
227 Bruswick: 2nd & 3rd Light Battalion 1814-1815
228 Netherlands: The Swiss Regiments 1815
229 Russia: Guard Chasseur Regt Finlandski 1812-15
230 Naples: 4th Line Regt "Reale Sannita" 1809-11
231 Prussia: Kolberg Inf Regt #10 (1808-13)
[We carry the full line of Bunde prints from #1 on - see website for full list.]
AND DON'T FORGET THE MAGAZINES
GLOIRE & EMPIRE #28: Auerstaedt (124 pages, $28 USD, French text)
PRETORIEN #13: The Trojan War (84 pages, $18 USD, French text)
TRADITION #247 Jan-Feb 2010: Les Carabiniers 1807 (68 pages, $14 USD, French text)
More details at the website: onmilitarymatters.com.