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  • The battle of Sempach 1386

    Series Book 33 - Battlefield
    In this book we will see how an army of Swiss militiamen, vastly inferior in numbers and weaponry, defeated the army of Archduke Leopold Ill, one of the most skilled military leaders of his time, a man willing to have his knights fight on foot with lances rather than recklessly charge into a wall of arrows, and how he suffered one of the most complete defeats in Swiss history. The Battle of ... Read more

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  • Villers-Bocage: June 13, 1944

    Series Book 26 - Battlefield
    On the 13th of June of 1944, in less than an hour, at least twelve tanks, fourteen armored vehicles, two guns and a scout carrier were destroyed by a single tank. This is the striking feat of Michael Wittmann, the most famous panzer commander of the Second World War. A sensational feat that galvanized even Hitler, who in fact awarded the German officer with the Knight’s Cross with Oak Fronds and ... Read more

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  • Uniforms of Russian army of Elizabeth of Russia Vol. 2

    Under the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna from 1741 to 1761 and Peter III from 1762

    Series Book 8 - Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms 700
    Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the years from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand ... Read more

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  • The battle of Anzio

    Operation Shingle January-June 1944

    Series Book 1 - Witness to war
    This book of rare and restored images is dedicated to the Allied amphibious landing called Operation Shingle started the 22 January 1944, during the Italian Campaign of World War II in the area of Anzio & Nettuno near Rome the Italian capital city. With detailed captions for every photothe book show the history for images of this war operation commenced on 22 Jan 1944, landing 36,000 men and 3,200 ... Read more

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  • Uniforms of Russian army of Peter I the Great

    from the reign of Peter I to Catherine I, Peter II, Anna and Ivan VI. 1682-1741

    Series Book 6 - Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms 700
    Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the years from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand ... Read more

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  • The landsknechts

    German militiamen from late XV and XVI century

    Series Book 21 - Soldiers & Weapons
    The German Landsknechte (German plural, singular Landsknecht), meaning "servants of the land", were colourful mercenary soldiers with a redoubtable reputation, who took over the Swiss forces' legacy and became the most formidable military force of the late 15th and throughout 16th century Europe, consisting predominantly of German and Swiss mercenary pikemen and supporting foot soldiers, they ... Read more

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  • Oranges, mandarins, cedars, lemons & bergamots...

    Artistic engravings of Ferrari, Aldrovrandi, Volckhamer...

    Series Book 1 - Darwin's view
    Curious and detailed collection of images of botanical subjects belonging to the citrus family, made by artists, scientists,biologists and anthropologists. Artists of the past engaged in the realization of real museums of natural history. One of them, among the best known, the bolognese Aldrovandi called his work “theater” or “microcosm of nature,” he placed at the disposal of 18.000 scholars ... Read more

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  • Pax Ducis

    Series Book 29 - Altra Storia
    “A novel that poses the most difficult question in 20th-century Italian history: what would have happened if, due to a series of fortuitous events, Italy had managed to stay out of World War II?”Rome, December 9, 1939. Ottavio Mafai, a secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a member of the National Fascist Party out of necessity, and the husband of a Jewish woman out of love, holds an ... Read more

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  • Freud's Italian travels

    Series Book 20 - Bookmoon Saggi
    To write about Sigmund Freud is to embark on a labyrinthine journey-one that is as intellectually exhilarating as it is daunting. Whether composed at a cluttered desk, on a train slicing through the countryside, or amid the whispered echoes of a university library, such a project demands both scholarly rigor and imaginative daring. But to begin this work in Room 15 of the Hotel du Lac in Lavarone ... Read more

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  • Alban Berg’s secret

    Series Book 32 - Altra Storia
    A LOVE HIDDEN WITHIN THE MUSIC Vienna, 1907. Alban Berg, twenty-two years old, enters a living room in Hietzing and notices a hand resting on the edge of a piano. It belongs to Helene Nahowski, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph. He marries her in 1911. He will call her "the harbor" for the rest of his life. Prague, May 1925. Berg arrives for a contemporary music festival and is ... Read more

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  • U-455: 51 men on the bottom

    Series Book 30 - Altra Storia
    September 2005. Off the coast of Portofino, at a depth of 110 meters, lies the wreck of U-455, an iron tube where fifty-one men have been waiting since 1944. Embedded in the seabed, protected by a leather pouch, the soul of the submarine resurfaces: the diaries of Chief Engineer Werner Buhlau and that of Hans-Martin Scheibe, twenty-nine years old, Kapitänleutnant of the Kriegsmarine, Together, ... Read more

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  • Berlin 1945

    Series Book 16 - Battlefield
    The Battle of Berlin (in German “Schlacht um Berlin”) was the final clash in the European theater of World War II. Beginning on April 16, 1945, the Red Army launched the great attack on the Oder line to destroy the German forces defending the heart of Germany and conquer the capital of the Reich. After fierce fighting, heavy losses for both sides and some desperate attempts of resistance by the ... Read more

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