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Ortner, C. Storm Troops,

Austro-Hungarian Assault Units and Commandos in the First World War. Tactics, Organisation, Uniforms and Equipment. The assault troops ranked among the elite units of the Austro-Hungarian army and permanently influenced the image of the soldier in the static and trench warfare of the First World War. In trench warfare, they had the assignment to remove enemy obstacles and to eliminate sentries in hand-to-hand combat with hand grenades or with daggers and clubs, thus enabling following attacking troops to reach their objectives. Equipped with steel helmets, shortened rifles and hand grenades, supported by machine guns, submachine guns and infantry guns, the assault trooper of the First World War ultimately epitomised the 'modern' soldier of the twentieth century. This impressive and lavishly illustrated volume comprises 320 pages and shows the operational tactics, battle doctrine, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the Austrian assault troops in the First World War in more than 850 contemporary black and white and current fullcolour photographs. Clear views of submachine guns, machine guns, trench mortars, infantry guns, flamethrowers and signals equipment provide an impressive overview of the arms and equipment of the elite of the k.u.k. army. These rare artefacts were mainly drawn from the inventory of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna. The book devotes a long chapter to Austrian assault troop badges. It shows not only their genesis, but also illustrates more than 100 assault troop badges as originals and on photographs of their wearers. This is the largest hither to published number of such badges. Big size, english text. 320 pages.

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Konvolut 2 Titel ARTILLERIE. -
In Englisch. - Bachelor, John and Ian Hogg. Artillery. The gun, Rail guns, Coastal guns, Anti-aircraft guns, Anti-tank guns, Self-propelled guns, Recoilless guns, Fuzes . . . Ldn., Macdonald (1972). 4°, 158 S., 1 Bl Werbung, mit 288, tls. farb. Abb., OPp. m. farb. OU./The Big Guns. Artillery 1914-1918. 4°, 64 S. mit zahlr., tls. farb. Abb., ill. OKart. (= Purnell's History of the World Wars. Special). -

leicht verstaubt, bestoß., u. Ecken abgewetzt, sonst Zustand sauber und gut.

[SW: Geschichte, Waffen, Artillerie, Kanonen, Schießen, Kampf, Krieg, Soldaten, History, Military, Arms, Weapons, Gun, Artillery, Shoot, Campaign, War, Soldiers]

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[NAVAL HISTORY]. Sea battle<B> </B>of 6 October 1779 - Engraving coloured by hand.<B></B><B></B>(Caption in reverse:)<B> ETAT </B>malheureux du Quebeck et Surveillante vais. de Guer Fran(..; added, not in rverse: "Collection des prospects").<B> </B>(Text underneath:) Der ungluckliche Zufall der beeden Französischen Kriegs Schiffe (sic!), genannt Quebeck und Surveillante. Zum eurigen Angedencken, des traurigen aber glorreichen Todes vom dem Capitain Farmer, welcher das faindliche Feuer zwar Schweigen gemacht aber alsdemme selbst endlich im Rauch aufgegangen nach deme das Treffs 3 1/2 Stunde lang gedauert d. 6. 8ber 1779.Etat<B> </B>malheureux du Quebeck et de la Surveillante vaiseau de Guerre Francois. A la memoire de la triste mais glorieuse mort du Capitaine Farmer, qui apres avoir fait taire le feu de l'ennemie, perit dans l'explosion, de son vaisseau, apres trois heures et demie de combat le 6 8ber 1779. Ausburg, l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts, (ca. 1781).
Rare fine large engraving, very beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand of the famous fight on 6 October 1779 off Ushant, (Ile d'Ouessant), an island off the coast of Brittany, between a French and English frigate, ending in the glorious death of Captain George Farmer (1732-1779), who when he had silenced his Enemy was blown up in his ship after an action of three and a half hours. The plate is engraved by Balthasar Friedrich Leizel, an engraver living in Augsburg in the second half of the 18th century, after a painting by the English marine painter Richard Paton (1717-1791). Leizel, or Leizelt, engraved the image in reverse.Captain George Farmer was stationed at Guernsey in 1779 as a guard for the Channel Islands and to gain intelligence. His frigate, the <I>Quebeck,</I> was damaged on the 6th of July in pursuit of French vessels and had lost its cannons. The <I>Quebeck </I>was repaired at Portsmouth, but poorly: the 32 12-pounders were replaced by 9-pounders which were taken from another frigate not ready for sea. With this reduced armament, off Ushant, on 6 October the <I>Quebeck</I> met the French 18-pounders frigate <I>Surveillante</I> of 40 guns and nearly dubble the number of men. A heavy fight followed and after about three and a half hours both ships were demasted. The <I>Quebeck</I>'s sails falling over the guns caught fire and the frigate was speedily in a blaze. It was impossible to help the burning frigate, which after some five hours blew up. Sixty-six only out of about 195 that were on board were picked up by the boats of the <I>Surveillante</I>, of the <I>Rambler</I>, and of a Russian ship that came on the scene. The rest, including captain Farmer, perished. Farmer had been previously wounded, and his conduct both in the action and during the fire was so highly spoken of that, at the special request of the Admiralty, a baronetcy was conferred on his eldest son and a pension of 200<I> </I> a year to his widow.There is also another painting - slightly different - of the same fight, also after Paton's painting, by Robert Dodd, another famous English marine painter (1748-1816), who more often copied paintings by Paton. This painting is now in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The NMM's description to that painting runs as follows: "<I>The British and French frigate action represented in this painting was desperately fought. The frigates were accompanied by cutters, the 'Quebec', 32 guns, by the 'Rambler', 10 guns, and the 'Surveillante', 36 guns, by the 'Expedition', 10 guns. Both frigates sighted each other at dawn off Ushant and the 'Quebec', being up-wind of the 'Surveillante', ran down on her, while the Frenchman sailed close to the wind to await her. Close and furious action ensued for over three hours, after which both the damage to the masts and the heavy swell combined to bring down the masts of both vessels. Whereas in the 'Surveillante', the masts fell over the side, in the 'Quebec', they fell forward, over the decks and guns. It became difficult for the ship to fight, and the firing of her guns on the quarter-deck started a fire in the sails and tackle lying there, which quickly took hold. As the fire raged through the 'Quebec', efforts were made by both the British and French to rescue the crew. The 'Rambler', which had been in action with the 'Expedition' and had been disabled aloft, sent a boat. The 'Expedition' rejoined its frigate. One of the difficulties in rescuing the crew was the heavy swell. The 'Rambler's' boat saved a master's mate, two midshipmen and fourteen sailors, while the 'Surveillante' saved the First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant of marines, the surgeon and 36 of the crew. 13 more were saved by a passing Russian ship, but the other 127 were lost. The 'Quebec' is portrayed in the right of centre, dismasted and with her quarter deck blazing. On the left the 'Surveillante' is also dismasted. One of her boats is getting away and a naked sailor climbs up a rope ladder hanging over the 'Surveillante's' stern. In the left foreground lies the wreckage of spars and sails with sailors clinging to them, while on the right the 'Rambler's' boat picks up survivors. The 'Expedition' is in the right background stern on, and the 'Rambler' is very distant, under 'Quebec's' stern. Captain Farmer of the 'Quebec' was last seen in the bow, sitting on one of the anchors. He was killed when she blew up. </I><I>The artist was one of the principal recorders of the naval side of the War of American Independence and of the French Revolutionary Wars. He also produced and published engravings of his paintings</I>." (see: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?lettera=d&ID=BHC0426&name).
Very fine and clean copy in a stricking contemporary hand colouring.
Thieme/Becker 23, p. 5; 9, p. 358-59; 26, p. 297;<I> DNB</I> XVIII, p. 210-11.

(41 x 30 cm).

[SW: Prints - 18th Century; Prints - Maritime; Prints - Military]

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Stephen Davis: Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns n' Roses The Saga of Guns N' Roses, PENGUIN GROUP, 069 ISBN: 0141027738
Details the story of Guns N' Roses, a band that originated in the gutters of Sunset Strip and went on to become one of the baddest band on the planet. This book captures the birth of Guns' raw power, which - despite rape charges, drug-induced rampages and a general appetite for destruction - launched the band into the pantheon of rock gods.

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[SW: Musiker Rock/Pop/Jazz (Biografien/Erinnerungen); Guns n' Roses, Guns n' Roses, Englisch; Biografien/Erinnerungen]

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