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  • PANZER CREWMAN
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    PANZER CREWMAN
    SIMON FORTY / RICHARD CHARLTON-TAYLOR
    “…great detailed shots and drawings for those looking for references in their models. Highly recommended for beginners to advanced builders.” -AMPS The German Panzerwaffe ripped up the rulebooks of war that had been laid down by the grinding slaughter of the trenches of World War I. Armored vehicles, close-air support, and bold leadership based on mission command, Auftragstakti...

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  • A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 1939–1945
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    A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    "...contains a plethora of after-action reports, diagrams and text which makes the work a thorough and engaging study of amphibious landings during the war." —WWII History Magazine Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were carried out on a large scale in every theater of the c...

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  • ATLANTIC WALL: CHANNEL ISLANDS
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    ATLANTIC WALL: CHANNEL ISLANDS
    GEORGE FORTY
    While the Germans did not succeed in invading Britain during World War II, they occupied a number of islands in the English Channel. The English population continued to lead fairly normal lives, while the German occupiers built some of the most extensive fortifications of the Second World War. As the war progressed, British commandos made occasional attacks, resulting in harshe...

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  • RED ARMY INTO THE REICH
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    RED ARMY INTO THE REICH
    SIMON FORTY / PATRICK HOOK / NIK CORNISH
    An illustrated history of how the Red Army pushed west and into Berlin in 1945 during World War II. The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in Norway and the east European states that bordered Germany: Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. By spring 194...

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  • INFANTRY WARFARE, 1939–1945
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    INFANTRY WARFARE, 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an opponent with armour or artillery, but there's only one way to take and hold ground and that's with riflemen – the 'poor bloody infantry'. And it is the infantrymen of the Second World War – from all sides, Allied and Axis – who are the subject of this highly illustrated history. I...

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  • ARTILLERY WARFARE, 1939–1945
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    ARTILLERY WARFARE, 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    "From mountain warfare with guns on mules to V2 rockets and everything between makes it well worth a place on anyone's reference shelf." — Clash of Steel It is said that artillery won the Second World War for the Allies—that Soviet guns wore down German forces on the Eastern Front, negating their superior tactics and fighting ability, and that the accuracy and intensity of the ...

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  • TANK WARFARE, 1939–1945
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    TANK WARFARE, 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    Packed with archival photos, a fascinating account of armored warfare in WWII—and how tank design and tactics were transformed during the period. On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War, tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank...

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  • ALLIED ARMIES IN SICILY AND ITALY 1943–1945
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    ALLIED ARMIES IN SICILY AND ITALY 1943–1945
    SIMON FORTY
    A pictorial history of Allied forces making their way through Italy in the final years of World War II, featuring rare photos from wartime archives. The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of World War II, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the Itali...

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  • THE EIGHTH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA
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    THE EIGHTH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA
    SIMON FORTY
    A pictorial history of the British Eighth Army's campaigns in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia during World War II.   The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen photographs show the m...

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  • NORMANDY 1944: THE BATTLE FOR CAEN
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    NORMANDY 1944: THE BATTLE FOR CAEN
    SIMON FORTY
    Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as Simon Forty demonstrates in this photographic history, one of the most controversial.His detailed, graphic account gives the r...

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  • NORMANDY 1944: THE BATTLE OF THE HEDGEROWS
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    NORMANDY 1944: THE BATTLE OF THE HEDGEROWS
    SIMON FORTY
    With rare wartime photography, this WWII history presents an in-depth look at one of the most grueling and vital battles of the Normandy campaign. After storming the beaches on D-Day, the US First Army labored to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the Normandy campaign, and this photographic ...

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  • FRANCISCO DE GOYA
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    FRANCISCO DE GOYA
    SANDRA FORTY
    The greatest artist of the 18th century, Francisco de Goya began his career as an apprentice to a local artist where one of his jobs was adding draperies and modesty items to nude figures in religious paintings; for this he was titled “Reviser of Indecent Paintings.” But by the age of 40, Goya had established himself as a leading Spanish artist. Goya simultaneously pursued a nu...

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  • REMBRANDT
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    REMBRANDT
    SANDRA FORTY
    Rembrandt is indisputably the greatest artist of the seventeenth century, and many would say the greatest artist of all time. His mastery of composition, paint, and line—he was a superlative etcher—over a lifetime’s work has rarely been emulated, let alone surpassed. At a time when other artists specialized, his themes covered history, pastoral and Biblical scenes, group painti...

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  • BRUEGEL
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    BRUEGEL
    SANDRA FORTY
    The Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel—sometimes called Peasant Bruegel—was the first great artist to paint scenes of ordinary peasant life and show the common man and woman as they went about their daily tasks and amusements. He is credited with bringing a humanizing spirit to painting— something that was lacking in medieval works and entirely absent from contemporary Renaissance p...

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  • DESERT RATS AT WAR
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    DESERT RATS AT WAR
    GEORGE FORTY
    70 years ago, on 7 June 1944, the British 7th Armored Division landed in Normandy, halfway through a wartime journey that had started in north Africa. Formed on 16 February 1940, it adopted the Jerboa as its divisional sign—and while many units that fought in the desert call themselves by the name, 7th Armoured Division are the original ‘Desert Rats’. The division helped destr...

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  • WHISTLER
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    WHISTLER
    SANDRA FORTY
    Although American by birth and heritage, James McNeill Whistler spent most of his life in western Europe, particularly in Paris and London, where he lived his life in a swirl of controversy over his art and his often self-aggrandizing behavior, which tainted his associations with fellow artists and the public. His guiding principle was “art for art’s sake” meaning that the arti...

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  • SEURAT
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    SEURAT
    SANDRA FORTY
    Georges Seurat was one of the most important Post-Impressionist painters to lead the way toward the modern era in art. He is best known for developing pointillism, an exacting and time-consuming technique whereby tiny dots of paint are combined to create a composition. His work is stylized and considered, in complete contrast to the impetuous spontaneity of his precursors and c...

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  • MICHELANGELO
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    MICHELANGELO
    SANDRA FORTY
    Michelangelo is considered by many art experts to be the greatest Renaissance artist, surpassing even Leonardo da Vinci. Not only was he an exceptional sculptor but also a formidable painter, architect, and poet. Michelangelo’s primary material was marble and the results of his talent and work speak for themselves: Can anything compare to his statue of David or the Pietà he car...

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  • DEGAS
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    DEGAS
    SANDRA FORTY
    Edgar Degas began as a classical painter of genre history scenes and died as one of the greatest and most innovative names in French art—although as with so many other artists, he did not receive a great deal of recognition in his lifetime. Along the way his style changed completely from strict academic formalism to near-abstract scenes of contemporary Parisian life. His primar...

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  • RENOIR
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    RENOIR
    SANDRA FORTY
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir was, above all, a painter of people, especially young women and rosy-cheeked children. In many ways, he is the most approachable Impressionist. Not for him were the grim realities of a hard life. Renoir painted people enjoying themselves: talking, flirting, laughing, often dancing, eating, drinking, and simply passing joyful times together. A constant them...

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  • MONET
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    MONET
    SANDRA FORTY
    Monet’s gift was to show the world a different way of seeing and interpreting everything around us. He brought his canvases to life with dabs and swoops of color put together to give an impression of the scene. He is the ultimate Impressionist: not only did one of his paintings inspire the label “Impressionist” and so name one of the greatest art movements of all time, but he w...

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  • EL GRECO
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    EL GRECO
    SANDRA FORTY
    El Greco, or Doménikos Theotokópoulos, was born to Greek parents on the island of Crete. He is considered by many art historians to be the last great Mannerist painter. El Greco, or “The Greek,” left Crete for Venice, Italy, in his mid-twenties. Following the Venetian Renaissance tradition, he began to elongate his figures, a style that would come to be associated with his most...

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  • HOKUSAI
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    HOKUSAI
    SANDRA FORTY
    Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous of a sequence of names used by a versatile and long-lived Japanese artist who worked in many genres and schools, evolving a unique style that made him known then as well as now as a true master. He was an unusual and restless man who slipped boundaries and made fresh connections, yet never sought great wealth or position. Hokusai produced o...

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  • COMIC BOOK COVERS
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    COMIC BOOK COVERS
    SANDRA FORTY
    Comics entered their “golden age” in 1938 when a new idea revolutionized the industry: the creation of the first and archetypal superhero. Superman, pioneered by Detective Comics, better known as DC, was quickly followed by Batman, another brainchild of DC, in 1939. An explosion of acrobatic superheroes, such as Captain America, Wonder Woman, and The Green Lantern, quickly made...

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  • JOHN SINGER SARGENT
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    JOHN SINGER SARGENT
    SANDRA FORTY
    Painter of languid, elegant, Edwardian beauties and sharply dressed gentlemen, John Singer Sargent was the ultimate society painter. He knew everyone who was anyone and was on personal terms with many of them, including Edward VII and the U.S. presidents Roosevelt and Wilson. This social standing was justified. Sargent was one of the greatest portrait painters ever, able to con...

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  • BOTANICAL PRINTS
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    BOTANICAL PRINTS
    SANDRA FORTY
    The earliest botanical illustrations are found inancient herbals—practical works of knowledge, written to pass on crucial information about how to heal the sick. Around the time of the Renaissance, however, flowers began to be more generally appreciated for their beauty, so talented artists set about capturing their magic. Botanical illustration developed into a high art form d...

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  • PAUL KLEE
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    PAUL KLEE
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    Paul Klee’s philosophy of art is perhaps best summed up by his own statement: “A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.” As one of the great avant garde artists of the 20th century, Swiss-born Klee was swept along with the changing moods and philosophies of the time. Klee did not readily fit into a particular artistic category. He used many styles and techniques, always exp...

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  • MARY CASSATT
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    MARY CASSATT
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    Although an American, Mary Cassatt spent the majority of her life in France and gained most of her fame and success in Europe. Not until after her death on June 14, 1926, at Chateau de Beaufresne, near Paris, did she become a truly celebrated American artist. Cassatt is known most for her paintings and pastels of mothers and their children. Never having been a mother herself, p...

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  • CARAVAGGIO
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    CARAVAGGIO
    SANDRA FORTY
    Caravaggio is variously labeled a uniquely gifted artist and an arrogant, rebellious, and dangerously violent murderer. But for all his wild behavior, he was a profoundly religious man. Caravaggio, the first artist to bring realism to painting, is considered by many to be the greatest Baroque painter of all. The Old and New Testaments are brought vividly to light by Caravaggio’...

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  • HANS MEMLING
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    HANS MEMLING
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    Hans Memling was one of the greatest artists working in northern Europe in the late medieval period. He made his home and his name in the city of Bruges, Belgium, where he lived and worked for almost 30 years. Often described as a Flemish Primitive, he almost singlehandedly transformed Bruges into the most prestigious location for northern European artists and craftsmen working...

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