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Showing posts with label Military History Photo Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military History Photo Friday. Show all posts
Friday, March 14, 2014

Military History Photo Friday: Elaborate Renaissance Arms and Armor

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Here are a couple of fine pieces from The Wallace Collection , one of the best private collections of art in London. They have an especi...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Military History Photo Friday: Senegalese Troops in World War One

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Hello from Tangier! Actually I'm writing this several days early and scheduling it ahead of time because I'm happily without Inter...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Military History Photo Friday: The Battle of Dogali

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I was chatting with science fiction author David Drake this week and he mentioned a recent visit to Italy, where he got to see this splen...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Military History Photo Friday: The Valentine Tank

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Happy Valentine's Day! To celebrate the day where lovers are supposed to swoon over one another while gorging on chocolate, I'm gi...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Military History Photo Friday: Beating Shells Into Drinking Cups

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Why beat swords into plowshares when you can turn an artillery shell into a drinking cup? That's what one soldier did in World War On...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Military History Photo Friday: Romania Defeated in World War One

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This is an Austro-Hungarian propaganda poster from 1916 celebrating the defeat of Romania. That year Romania joined the allies fighting Ge...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: A German Halberd Pistol

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On my recent trip to Vienna I got to see some great museums. One of my favorites was the collection of Hapsburg arms and armor at the Neu...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: The Chakram, India's deadly frisbee

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No, these aren't toys, but they did inspire those Aerobees that we played with as kids. These are Chakram, an Indian weapon. They'...
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Friday, November 8, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: Crystal Radio in the Trenches

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I'm hard at work on my National Novel Writing Project-- Radio Hope , a post-apocalyptic tale. I'm proud to say that I've pas...
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Friday, August 2, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: the A7V, Germany's only tank in World War One

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This cumbersome beast is the A7V, a German tank from World War One. It looks like something my seven-year-old son would design. "Look...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: The Torres de Quart in Valencia, Spain

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These impressive towers are called the Torres de Quart. I saw them this week when visiting Valencia, Spain. My wife had an astronomy confe...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: Medieval Handgonnes in Slovenia

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When I started researching my book Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons , I discovered the Balkans were early adop...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: Hemingway at the front

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Hello from Gorizia, where I'm a guest speaker at the èStoria annual history festival. Today Gorizia is on the Italian-Slovenian border...
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: Bicycle Soldiers

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Here's a part of the Blitzkrieg you generally don't see. These World War Two German soldiers are part of a bicycle regiment. While...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: The Killer Vespa

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What? No Civil War Photo Friday ? No Wild West Photo Friday ? Nope, today I'm leaving the 19th century to delve into the 20th. The exc...
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