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The landsknechts
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 achieved the reputation for being the universal mercenary of early modern Europe. Was Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 to 1519, the founder of the first mercenary Landsknecht regiments in 1487. He called upon Georg von Frundsberg (1473–1528), known by many as the Father of the Landsknechte, to assist him in their organization. Our book, cover all the history of this soldiers with finest illustration and 16 colour plates.
Mahler. Ediz. Inglese
The life and the loves of the great European composer Gustav Mahler !
Play the Seven Years' War 1756-1763 - Vol. 2
The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was a global conflict that spanned five continents, setting off what Winston Churchill later called "the first world war".
1915-1918 La Guerra Italo-austriaca
Soldiershop is proud to present in the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War his project of colorized images of the WW1, The images featured not only the great battles of the war...
Play the Seven Years' War 1756-1763 - Vol. 1
The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was a global conflict that spanned five continents, setting off what Winston Churchill later called "the first world war".
Heidelberg Turnierbuch 1482
This German manuscript Turnierbuch is a falsification of the "Heidelberg Tournament Book of the Jost Pirckhammer of 1486" realized in 1886. Today it is preserved in Heidelberg University Library. Always and in any time, people were fascinated by the Middle Ages. And as always, writings and other legacies from the Middle Ages were an expensive and coveted commodity. And where there was a need for rare originals, there were always a "creative contemporaries" who were able to recreate old originals... In appendix twelve plates o knights, dames ans soldiers of XVIth century.
The Sardinian Expeditionary Corps
The Anglo-French-Ottoman Siege of Sevastopol, the Russian Naval Base in the Crimean, had been underway since October 1854. It had begun with the French and British landing at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854. The late joining of the Sardinian Expeditionary Corps (entering the war against Russia, on 26 January, 1855), arrived at Balaklava over May. The army of the Regno di Sardegna-Piemonte: the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, was by the standards of the time, seen as modern, and one of the best in Europe. The Sardinian troops were relatively battle experienced, having been involved in the first wars of Italian unification in 1848. A total of 18,061 men, 3,963 horses, and mules, four fortress, an...
Horsemen in the 16th & 17th C.
16 & 17 cent. knights, cavalry skirmish & equestrian school in the art of jacob de gheyn & A.De bruyn The celebrated Dutch artist Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1625), famous author of 1608 masterpiece titled: Maniement d'armes, d'arquebuses, mousquet et piques in French language, and Exercise of armes in England. He is also the creator of a finest series of 22 numbered prints titled: "De ruiterschool" (the equestrian school") composed by a frontispiece, 20 prints in which one or a few different types (most armor) riders are shown, and a print of a cavalry skirmish. The second part present the artworks of Abraham De Bruyn (1539-1587), a famous Flemish Engraver. He is ranked among the Little Masters on account of his plates being usually very small. The De Bruyn series in based on several European knights and horsemen in the 16th century. The great part of all this plates are presnted for the first time in full colour!!
Flowers, butterflies, insects, caterpillars and serpents...
In those years, Europe was full of bonfires committed to make a clean sweep of witches. At the same time a young scientist: Sybilla Merian, daughter of the well-known German engraver Matthaeus Merian, was instead committed to studying, and illustrating the microscopic world of insects, caterpillars and butterflies and the little bigger world of flowers, plants and animals. The wonderful metamorphosis of caterpillars was the basis of her best work: Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, published in Amsterdam in 1705. The work carried out by Sibylla Merian is fantastic. Indeed, during that time, it was unusual to deal with insects - the beasts of Satan. Her drawings of plants, snakes, spiders, iguanas and tropical beetles are still considered masterpieces and are sought-after by collectors around the world. Another great master, the English entomologist Moses Harris, contributed to complete the volume with his interesting engravings.
The Axis Forces 12
In this issue we wanted to commemorate the 80th anniversary of both the German invasion of Poland and the Soviet invasion of Finland, two events that marked the beginning of World War II. In fact, analyzing the contents of this new issue, we initially find an article on the use of Totenkopf units in Poland in September 1939, a second article on the Soviet invasion of Finland. Then we find the biography of Karl Heinz-Boska by Peter Mooney, the history of the Italian smoke generating units on the Baltic, the use of the SS units during the battle of Kursk in July 1943, the first part of a long and detailed article on the biographies of the Krüger brothers and finally an article dedicated to the Close Combat Clasp.
