Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World
Title | Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Clarke |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2000-09-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473814510 |
This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in full colour.
Gallantry Medals and Decorations of the World
Title | Gallantry Medals and Decorations of the World PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Clarke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2001 |
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Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World
Title | Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World PDF eBook |
Author | John Clarke |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2000-09-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 085052783X |
This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in full colour.
British Military Medals
Title | British Military Medals PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Duckers |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2013-09-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473829836 |
Fully revised second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling guide to military medals. This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring - British and imperial military history, and to uncovering the careers and exploits of individual soldiers. In a series of succinct and well-organized chapters he explains how medals originated, to whom they were awarded and how the practice of giving medals has developed over the centuries. His work is a guide for collectors and for local and family historians who want to learn how to use medals to discover the history of military units and the experiences of individuals who served in them.
British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000
Title | British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Duckers |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 074781175X |
British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000. This book surveys the British decorations and medals from the origins in the Crimean War of 1854-6 up to the end of the twentieth century.
Acts of Gallantry
Title | Acts of Gallantry PDF eBook |
Author | Lambton J. H. Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Lifesaving |
ISBN |
Gallantry and Distinguished Service Awards to the Australian Army During the First World War: The military medal, A-K
Title | Gallantry and Distinguished Service Awards to the Australian Army During the First World War: The military medal, A-K PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Maton |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Decorations of honor |
ISBN | 9780958560092 |