Research Catalog

Title

Uniforms of the soldiers of fortune / Leroy Thompson ; illustrated by Ken MacSwan.

Author

Thompson, Leroy, 1944-

Publication

Poole, Dorset : Blandford Press ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

MacSwan, Ken.

Description

159 pages : color illustrations; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Blandford colour series

Uniform Title

Blandford colour series

Subject

• Military uniforms > History
• Mercenary troops > History
• Mercenary troops
• Military uniforms
• Uniform
• Söldner

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Series on jacket : Blandford colour series.

Contents

Soldiers of Fortune throughout history -- Ancient. Sherden ; Numidian Light Cavalryman ; Greek Mercenary Hoplite -- Ancient. Cretan Archer ; Balearic Slinger ; Levantine Archer -- Dark Ages/Middle Ages. Ribaud ; Hun ; Varangian -- Middle Ages. Genoese Crossbowman ; Landsknecht ; Swiss Pikeman -- Middle Ages/Renaissance. Welsh Mercenary Archer ; Companion Man-at-Arms of the White Company ; Papal Swiss Guardsman -- Middle Ages/Renaissance. Mercenary artillerist ; Condottieri ; Grand Catalan Companion (Almugavar) -- Eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. Scots Guardsman, France (c.1700) ; Private, Regiment Lally (c.1760) ; Private, Regiment Irlanda (c.1805) -- Eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. Swiss Guardsman, France (c.1740) ; Panduren von der Trenck ; Dragoon, Schwarze Brigade Favrat -- Eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. King's German Legionnaire ; Ninja ; Swiss Guardsman, Austria (c. 1745) -- American Revolution. Major General Friedrich von Steuben ; Hess-Cassel Jaeger ; Hussar, Lauzun's Legion -- Eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. General de Brigada Lee Christmas ; Major, Madras Engineers (c.1840) ; Philhellene -- Gurkhas. Rifleman, 2nd Gurkha Rifles (late 19th century) ; Gurkha rifleman, World War I ; Subadar-Major, 3rd Gurkha Rifles (c.1905) -- French Foreign Legion. Legionnaire, RMLE, World War I ; Caporal, Solferino (1859) ; Caporal-chef, 3rd REI, Morocco (1930s) -- Twentieth century. T.E. Lawrence ; Lieutenant General John Glubb ; Tracy Richardson -- 1920-30s. Major General Frank 'One-Arm' Sutton ; Major, Bolivian Army (Chaco War) ; Frank Tinker (Spanish Civil War) -- Spanish Foreign Legion. Legionnaire 1st Class (Spanish Civil War) ; Corporal (Early 1930s) ; Lieutenant (Early 1920) -- Spanish Civil War. Lieutenant, Condor Legion ; Machine-Gunner, Abraham Lincoln Battalion ; Tanker, Italian Volunteer -- Aviators of Fortune. 1st Lieutenant, Kosciuszko Squadron ; 2nd Lietuenant, Escadrille Lafayette ; Flying Officer, RAF Eagle Squadrons -- World War II German Volunteers. Lieutenant, Spanish "Blue Division' Russia -- Sturmmann, 13th Waffen-Gibirgs-Division der SS 'Handschar' ; Free India Legionnaire -- Flying Tigers -- French Foreign Legion. Legionnaire, 3rd REI, Algeria (c.1960) ; Sergent-chef, 1st BEP, Indochina (c.1951) ; Caporal, 13th DBLE, Bir Hakeim, World War II -- Gurkhas. Gurkha Rifleman, Malaya (c.1957) Gurkha Rifleman, 4th Indian Division, World War II ; Rifleman, 2/7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, Hong Kong (1982) -- Vietnam. Nung, S'OG Recon Team (c.1970) ; Montagnard 'Striker' (c.1965) ; Air America pilot -- Spanish Foreign Legion. Lieutenant (c.1965) Legionnaire, Sahara (c.1975) ; Gastadore, VI Bandara (c.1950) -- Mercenary Leaders Africa. Major Mike Hoare ; 'Colonel' Bob Denard ; 'Colonel' Rolf Steiner -- Middle East. Captain, Trucial OMan Scouts (c.1965) ; David Smiley, the Yemen (1960s) ; Islamic 'Volunteer', PLO Main Force, Lebanon (19893) -- Africa. William Baldwin, Kenya (1954) ; Bushman, 201 Battalion, South West African Territorial Force (1983) ; Major Mike Williams, Grey's Scouts, Rhodesia (1977) -- American Soldiers of Fortune. Robert K. Brown ; Mike Echanis ; Mickey Marcus -- Spanish Foreign Legion. Legionnaire of Special Operations Unit (c.1978) ; Corporal, Armored Cavalry, 'Grupos Ligeros Saharianos II' (c.1976) ; Legionnaire, Sahara (c.1975) -- Recent Soldiers of Fortune. Portuguese Mercenary, Angola ; Swiss Guardsman, Vatican (current) ; American 'Advisor', Guatemala -- French Foreign Legion. Caporal, 1st REC (c.1978) ; Caporal, 2nd Cie, 2nd REP (c.1983) ; Legionnaire, 13th DBLE, Djibouti (c.1977) -- Gurkhas. Rifleman, 1/7 Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles (Falklands War) ; Piper, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles (c.1971) ; Sergeant Rambahadur Limbu, VC, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles.

ISBN

• 0713713283
• 9780713713282

LCCN

85670186

OCLC

• ocm12722676
• 12722676
• SCSB-1151599

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library