ATD Mil Uniforms in days before "the lights went out in Europe"

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Vanished Armies: A Record of Military Uniform Observed and Drawn in Various
European Countries During the Years 1907 to 1914 ( Shire General ) - Street
Smart 
Contributor(s): Miller, Ae (Author) Mollo, John (Editor)  
 
(*i think we get it, that the colorful slipped away and became grey and
khaki, in layers more rich from our reading of ATD. i'd also be willing to
bet that many p-list people like uniforms)

Publisher Marketing: In the years immediately before the First World War
Archibald Haswell Miller, a young artist, traveled Europe to study
painting. While he was there he indulged his other great interest -
military matters. On his travels he observed first-hand the soldiers of the
European Armies in the last days of the colourful and elaborate uniforms
that were giving way to grey and khaki across the continent. Realizing that
this was a great military heritage that was slipping away, he set out to
record these splendid uniforms. 






  
  ISBN: 0747807396   EAN: 9780747807391 
Publisher: Shire Publications 
US SRP: $ 35.00 US  -  (Discount: REG)  
Binding: Hardcover  
Pub Date: November 01, 2009  
Street Date: 11/17/2009 

This item is Not Returnable 

  
 
 
 

Additional Information 
BISAC Categories:
- Antiques & Collectibles | Military 
- History | Military | General  
Series:
Shire General  
Physical Info: 128 pages  
Carton Quantity: 24    
 

 



Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.    
Publisher Marketing:
In the years immediately before the First World War Archibald Haswell
Miller, a young artist, traveled Europe to study painting. While he was
there he indulged his other great interest - military matters. On his
travels he observed first-hand the soldiers of the European Armies in the
last days of the colourful and elaborate uniforms that were giving way to
grey and khaki across the continent. Realizing that this was a great
military heritage that was slipping away, he set out to record these
splendid uniforms. 
In the uncertain days before the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in
Sarajevo, Haswell Miller sketched and painted hundreds of figures, each
wearing a different uniform from the armies of Britain, Germany, France,
Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain and
Sweden. Just before the First World War the paintings were exhibited in
Leipzig, and it seemed they might be published. But when war broke out they
returned home and lay forgotten for nearly one hundred years. 
Now, published together at last, they represent a unique record of the
uniforms of the last great age of military dress. Accompanied by, in
Haswell Miller's own words, 'notes and memories of the days before "the
lights went out in Europe" in the year 1914', this is a book of great
historical importance.

 


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