Description

Macmillan Company [Published Date: 1969]. Hardcover, 215 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket Brown boards with gold figure of man on horse in the bottom corner and gold lettering on spine. Light scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's circular ownership stamp on front paste-own. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] This book illustrates in 96 pages of superb color the uniforms of the most famous cavalry regiments and other mounted troops of Britain and the Commonwealth. The authors, Robert and Christopher Wilkinson-Latham, bring to the subject a family tradition of military historical knowledge: Wilkinson Sword has served the British sovereign and army in the field of military uniforms, weapons, and accoutrements for eight generations. Jack Cassin-Scott, who has specialized in military illustration, has created a gallery of authentic pictures which captures something of the klan of the great regiments of Life Guards, Horse Guards, Dragoon Guards, Hussars, and Lancers. An added point of interest is that every illustration is accompanied by the "mount": there are 92 horses and three camels as well as one tank, which serves as a bridge into the more recent but equally spectacular role of the mechanized cavalry during and since the Second World War. The authors are joined in this project by their father, Major John Wilkinson-Latham (the author of several books on weapons), who has contributed to the text special paragraphs on the arms that were carried for each uniform. This is the perfect reference book for the increasing number of people who make, study, and enjoy model soldiers. A companion volume on infantry uniforms is in preparation.