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John Franklin has been collecting traditional toy soldiers for over
sixty years, mostly Britains but, as the title suggests, including
other interesting additions. In this book he shares some of the
in-depth knowledge gained through experience and countless hours of
careful research, but most of all the passion and enthusiasm for
his hobby. He explains how he was inspired to collect soldiers,
like so many, in early boyhood and how a hobby grew into an
obsession. The various chapters then examine themes he followed in
his collecting, such as Britains Special Painting Orders and Indian
Army Pipe Bands for example, or address questions regarding the
manufacture or identity of specific sets that he has researched or,
in some cases, is still seeking the answer to. It is packed with
anecdotes, useful technical information and helpful advice for the
collector but it is above all a proud tour of inspection of a
sixty-year labour of love. Over four hundred photographs, show much
of the author's magnificent collection in a parade of miniature
pomp and splendour.
To coincide with the 2015 bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo,
Osprey publishes "Waterloo 1815," a definitive three volume history
of the historic battle. Based on new research drawn from
unpublished first-hand accounts and illustrations, "Waterloo 1815"
provides a detailed resource for all aspects of the famous battle.
This first volume of the trilogy, "Quatre Bras," focuses on the
lead-up to Waterloo itself. Two days before the main battle, an
initial 8,000 Allied troops faced the 48,000 men of the French
Armee du Nord under Marshal Ney at the strategically vital
crossroads of Quatre Bras. Having been tricked by Napolean who was
trying to drive a wedge between the Prussians and the Anglo-allied
army, Wellington concentrated his troops at Quatre Bras, hoping to
link up with the Prussians. There Wellington just managed to hold
off Ney's attacks. The battle ended in a tactical stalemate but,
because he was unable to join with Blucher's Prussians, Wellington
retreated back along the road to Brussels to new positions at a
small Belgian village called Waterloo, and thus set the stage for
one of the greatest battles of all time.
With detailed maps, illustrations and battlefield dispositions,
"Quatre Bras" will lay the groundwork for any student of the Battle
of Waterloo.
Waterloo is one of the defining campaigns of European history. The
name conjures up images of the terrible scale and grandeur of the
Napoleonic Wars and the incredible combined effort that finally
ended Napoleon's aspirations of power in Europe. Drawn from
unpublished first-hand accounts, and using detailed illustrations,
this comprehensive volume is the ideal resource for studying the
intense fighting at the battles of Waterloo and Wavre, the final,
decisive engagements of the Waterloo campaign. Those two battles
are at the heart of this study, which explores the action at Mont
St Jean where Wellington managed to hold the French at bay until
the arrival of the Prussians under Blucher saw the Allies secure a
hard-fought victory at the dramatic climax of the 'Hundred days'.
The famous explorer of the Arctic region, Sir John Franklin (1786
1847) was appointed Governor of the penal colony of Tasmania (then
known as Van Diemen's Land) in 1837. At first enthusiastically
welcomed by the free colonists of the island, Franklin quickly
became embroiled in political and administrative difficulties, and
his compassion for convicts and aboriginals alike was incompatible
with his duties. In 1843, colonial officials loyal to his
predecessor succeeded in getting Franklin recalled by sending
damaging accounts of his conduct to London. This pamphlet was
Franklin's defence of his own character against these
misrepresentations, but he was not to see his reputation recovered.
He completed the book on 15 May 1845, just days before he departed
on another Arctic expedition to search for the North-West Passage.
Franklin and his entire crew died on the journey, and only many
years later was the tragic fate of the expedition discovered.
Sir John Franklin (1786 1847) joined the Navy at the age of
fourteen and saw action at Copenhagen and Trafalgar. Between those
battles, he circumnavigated Australia with his uncle, Matthew
Flinders; he became famous after his first major expedition to
northern Canada in 1819 22, although it resulted in the deaths of
over half of his men. Accounts of both of these voyages are also
reissued in this series. Franklin returned to the Arctic in 1825,
and this, his second book, describes that more successful
endeavour. Published in 1828, it records the expedition's planning,
route, scientific observations, and the mapping of over 1200 miles
of Canada's northern coastline. The party included two artists, and
their work is reproduced in over thirty engravings. Franklin was
later posted to the Mediterranean and Tasmania, but in 1845
embarked on his disastrous third expedition to the North-West
Passage, during which he and his entire crew were lost.
First published in 1823, this book narrates the disastrous
expedition undertaken by Naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John
Franklin up the Coppermine River in North America. Franklin (1786
1847) and nineteen others set out in 1819, initially with guides
from the Hudson Bay Company until the journey continued overland,
when they relied on Native Americans as guides. The party ran short
of supplies and, lacking adequate knowledge for survival, were
reduced to eating lichens. One of the party was suspected of eating
the bodies of the nine men who had died of exposure and starvation,
and two more were killed in a subsequent skirmish. The book was
immediately popular on publication and quickly became a travel
literature classic. Franklin undertook a second, more successful
Arctic journey (the account of which is also published in this
series) before setting out on his final expedition of 1845, which
ended in tragedy and enduring mystery.
In this newly revised and updated seventh edition of Taiwan:
Nation-State or Province? Copper examines Taiwan's geography and
history, society and culture, economy, political system and foreign
and security politics in the context of Taiwan's uncertain status,
as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic
of China. Analyzing possible future scenarios and trends that could
affect Taiwan's status, the author argues that Taiwan's very rapid
and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be
independent and separate from China, while economic links between
Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New features to this
brand-new edition include: The triumph of the Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP) in the 2016 elections. The impact of the
Trump administration on US-Taiwan relations. The rise of
popularism. The shift in cross-Strait relations with China given
their increased power on the world stage. This revised and fully
up-to-date textbook will be essential reading for students of
Taiwan, China, US-China relations and democracy.
In this newly revised and updated seventh edition of Taiwan:
Nation-State or Province? Copper examines Taiwan's geography and
history, society and culture, economy, political system and foreign
and security politics in the context of Taiwan's uncertain status,
as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic
of China. Analyzing possible future scenarios and trends that could
affect Taiwan's status, the author argues that Taiwan's very rapid
and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be
independent and separate from China, while economic links between
Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New features to this
brand-new edition include: The triumph of the Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP) in the 2016 elections. The impact of the
Trump administration on US-Taiwan relations. The rise of
popularism. The shift in cross-Strait relations with China given
their increased power on the world stage. This revised and fully
up-to-date textbook will be essential reading for students of
Taiwan, China, US-China relations and democracy.
The rapid advances made in the study of the synthesis, structure
and function of biological macromolecules in the last fifteen years
have enabled scientists concerned with antimicrobial agents to
achieve a considerable measure of understanding of how these
substances inhibit cell growth and division. The use of
antimicrobial agents as highly specific inhibitors has in turn
substantially assisted the investigation of complex biochemical
processes. The literature in this field is so extensive however,
that we considered an attempt should be made to draw together in an
introductory book the more significant studies of recent years.
This book, which is in fact based on lecture courses given by us to
undergraduates at Liverpool and Manchester Universities, is
therefore intended as an introduction to the biochemistry of
antimicrobial action for advanced students in many disciplines. We
hope that it may also be useful to established scientists who are
new to this area of research. The book is concerned with a
discussion of medically important antimicrobial compounds and also
a number of agents that, although having no medical uses, have
proved invaluable as research tools in biochemistry. Our aim has
been to present the available information in a simple and readable
way, emphasizing the established facts rather than more
controversial material. Whenever possible, however, we have
indicated the gaps in the present knowledge of the subject where
further information is required.
In Taiwan's Democracy on Trial, Professor Copper assesses the
process of democratization in Taiwan during the Chen Shui-bian Era
(2000 to 2008) and after. He shows that in several respects, most
important being press freedom, human rights, ethnic relations,
political reform, constitutionalism, and clean governance,
democratization regressed. Economic management was not good and
relations with the United States were severely strained, which also
hurt the Chen administration and explains why the Nationalist Party
returned to power in 2008. The democratization process has improved
since 2008.
In 1845 Sir John Franklin and his expedition, sailing on the
"Erebus" and the "Terror," set out in search of the Northwest
Passage. In their pursuit of that elusive water route across North
America they all perished, their fate remaining unknown for many
years. Franklin and his crew inspired a spate of books on
exploration in the nineteenth century, and interest in his
expedition has revived with the recent discovery of the bodies of
several of its members, perfectly preserved by ice for nearly a
century and half. "Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions," originally
published in 1859, is Franklin's own record of his earlier
explorations that put the high arctic on the map, and includes his
last letter and reports tracing the expedition's last movements. He
describes the daily progress of his two overland expeditions from
1818 to 1827, which covered a thousand miles between the Great
Slave Lake and the Arctic Ocean and charted fourteen hundred miles
of coastline between Cape Beechey in present-day Alaska and
Bathurst Inlet, to the north of Hudson Bay. It is a narrative
filled with the exhilarating strangeness of everything about the
Far North and unimaginable hardship endured heroically.
Bil Gilbert's introduction is informed by a first-hand feeling for
what Franklin was up against. Several years ago he followed much of
the explorer's route, an experience that is described in "Our
Nature "(Nebraska, 1986).
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