Foundry Books
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Foundry Books — британское издательство, которое выпустило ряд книг об армиях XVI, XIX и начала XX века с подробным описанием униформы и оружия, а также характерными черно-белыми прорисовками воинов в полный рост. Предназначено в первую очередь для моделистов (основное подразделение Foundry занимается продажей военно-исторической миниатюры), однако книги этой серии полезны и интересны всем любителям военной истории.
Foundry Books выступают своего рода логическим и хронологическим продолжением серии книг Wargames Research Group Books, где те же авторы рассмотрели армии почти всего мира с самой древности и вплоть до XVI века. Сохранился стиль иллюстраций-прорисовок с подробными комментариями к каждой "фигуре" (изображению-реконструкции воина в полный рост). Большинство книг обеих серий проиллюстрировал Иэн Хит. Еще одной отличительной особенностью Foundry Books стала тематика — в отличии от Wargames Research Group Books, теперь были взяты наиболее малоизученные и малоизвестные темы военной истории, зачастую связанные с колониализмом, причем в центре внимания находились не только колониальные войска, но и местные воины Африки, Азии и Америки. Конечно, данные книги не могут похвастаться красочными иллюстрациями, как работы Osprey Publishing, однако, а отличии от них, имеют большую научную ценность.
Всего в период с 1997 по 2011 гг. было издано 16 книг, среднее количество страниц — от 170 до 220, каждая книга содержала порядка 120 - 250 уникальных "фигур" воинов в полный рост.
Армии XVI века[править]
- Автор: Иэн Хит
- Страниц: 160
- Фигур: 128
- Дата выхода: 1997 г.
During the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I England was involved in a constant series of conflicts with Ireland and Scotland, and frequently sent expeditions to the territories now known as Belgium and the Netherlands to keep the Spanish and French at bay.
- Автор: Иэн Хит
- Страниц: 176
- Фигур: 247
- Дата выхода: 1999 г.
There has probably never been a single volume with such extensive information on the uniforms and costumes of the European conquest of the Americas. Ian Heath has assembled 247 drawings and other illustrations to depict the native peoples of South America and the eastern parts of North America as well as Spanish, English, French and even German adventurers and explorers. The accompanying text also offers a clear account of the rise and development of the various European colonies. Includes extensive bibliography.
Армии XIX века[править]
Азия[править]
- Автор: Иэн Хит
- Страниц: 167
- Фигур: 133
- Дата выхода: 1998 г.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the coming to power of anti-Western regimes in Iran and Iraq have brought the territories covered in this book back to prominence after decades of relative quiet. During the nineteenth century these territories which are now part of or border on Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China were the main theater of the Great Game, in which British and Russian agents competed for influence over the native princes.
- Автор: Иэн Хит
- Страниц: 174
- Фигур: 183
- Дата выхода: 1998 г.
Ian Heath has assembled 183 line drawings and 39 photographs to illustrate the huge array of costumes and uniforms worn during this period. Coverage includes the Taipeng and Boxer rebellions, Formosa, the Mongols and Gordon's Ever Victorious Army. Ian Heath's accompanying text is one of the most coherent accounts available of Chinese history during this turbulent period. Includes extensive bibliography.
- Автор: Иэн Хит
- Страниц: 168
- Фигур: 125
- Дата выхода: 1999 г.
The 'northeast frontier' of British India comprised what is now northwestern Burma, Assam and northeastern India. This relatively small area was made up of hills and almost impenetrable jungle and contained a remarkable number of warring tribes. Ian Heath has assembled 125 drawings, 52 other illustrations and 9 maps to chronicle this colorful but little-known part of the colonial world.
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- Автор: Иэн Хит
- Страниц: 207
- Фигур: 168
- Дата выхода: 2003 г.
This is the fourth volume in what has now become the ultimate reference series on "native" armies of nineteenth century Asia. This time the subject is mainland South East Asia, with the armies of Burma, Vietnam, Siam, Cambodia and the Lao and Shan states, plus minor tribal groups, being covered in considerable depth. There are details of each army's history, organisation, tactics, dress and arms supported by 168 drawings of warrior types and 75 photographs, illustrations and maps, plus comprehensive bibliographies.
- Автор: Иэн Хит
- Страниц: 176
- Фигур: 135
- Дата выхода: 2011 г.
This volume provides a detailed study of the astonishing reinvention of the Empire of Japan during the 19th century as it emerged from 200 years of self-imposed isolation to become a military superpower. As late as the 1850s the country remained technologically and militarily stagnant, but within just 40 years – in what must rank as the most rapid and comprehensive cultural transformation in world history – it had managed not only to absorb and successfully imitate several hundred years of Western technological progress, but had become one of the late Victorian world’s top ten military powers. During the same timeframe it also embraced the concept of colonialism, and with its invasion of China in 1894 and virtual occupation of Korea soon after took its first fateful steps along a road that would lead, with horrible inevitability, to head-on collision with the Allies in World War Two.
The evolution of its army, arms, uniforms and tactics during the 19th century are all covered, from samurai armor to Western uniforms, and from Katana to Krupps. Korea, by contrast, participated only reluctantly in military modernization, and adopted a limited program of reform only under foreign pressure – especially Japanese, but also American, Russian and Chinese – in the closing decades of the century. Such reforms as the country attempted nevertheless proved too little and too late, and were insufficient to prevent Korea becoming first a puppet state and then a colony of its maritime neighbor. The final part of the book comprises a detailed index for the five volumes of the series published thus far.
Африка[править]
- Автор: Конрад Кэрнс
- Страниц: 64
- Дата выхода: ?
- Примечание: формально в эту серию не входит, но логически очень хорошо подходит; также это единственная книга Foundry Books без собственных уникальных иллюстраций, здесь использованы только опубликованные ранее фотографии и гравюры
In the 19th century the eastern Savannah (now divided between the countries of Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Cameroon) was one of the most neglected parts of the African continent, and yet at the same time one of the most culturally sophisticated. During this period warfare among the peoples of the eastern Savannah, and in particular the three most significant native states – the Sokoto Caliphate, the ancient kingdom of Bornu, and the somewhat less ancient state of Bagirmi – was largely dominated by cavalry, and a significant proportion of these mounted troops were armoured. This groundbreaking book covers the period that began with the Sokoto jihad in 1804 and ended with the extinction of the Savannah states by the European colonial powers at the turn of the 20th century. In addition to providing a brief outline history of the three states, it examines in detail the arms, equipment and methods of warfare used by their armoured ‘knights’ and infantry, and includes in addition sections on their horses, artillery, flags, fortifications, and clothing. It is illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and engravings.
- Автор: Крис Пирс (текст), Иэн Хит (иллюстрации)
- Страниц: 184
- Фигур: 124
- Дата выхода: 2003 г.
Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native peoples of East Africa and the Arabs and Europeans who variously fought, explored, and raided there in the course of the 19th century. The detailed text provides the dress, arms, organisation, and tactics of the protagonists, and includes sections on the foreign explorers and the forces of the British and German East African colonies. Illustrations include 124 drawings of warriors and soldiers.
- Автор: Крис Пирс (текст), Иэн Хит (иллюстрации)
- Страниц: 200
- Фигур: 120
- Дата выхода: 2011 г.
This is the second volume in Foundry’s projected series describing the armies of the era of exploration in sub-Saharan Africa. Following a similar format to its predecessor, it covers the area now largely occupied by the countries of Gabon, the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Malawi.
This was the archetypal ‘Darkest Africa’ of 19th century exploration, and many of its indigenous inhabitants lived at the time in remote regions. Consequently most of what we know about these peoples comes from the fleeting impressions of such European travelers as encountered them – and all too often their experiences were limited to a flight of arrows from an unseen enemy concealed in the forest. This book therefore sets out to put such confrontations into context, and to describe the organization, tactics, costumes and weapons of the protagonists in this unique theater of conflict. Chris Peers’ authoritative text is accompanied by photographs, maps and 120 drawings of warriors, troop types and flags.
Другие[править]
Также в рамках серии "Армии XIX века" вышли 2 книги вне существующих подсерий "Азия" и "Африка". "Британцы в Индии" изначально вышла вне всяких подсерий, просто как очередная книга "армий XIX века", а книга про Парагвайскую войну предполагалась как начало новой подсерии "Америки", но продолжение так и не вышло, поэтому серия состоит всего из одной книги.
- Автор: Джон Френч (текст), Иэн Хит (иллюстрации)
- Страниц: 224
- Фигур: 199
- Дата выхода: 2006 г.
Of all the military campaigns fought by the British during the 19th century, no area saw more conflict than the subcontinent of India. Dozens of encounters, both great and small, involved many of its races as either friends or foes of Britain – indeed, it was not unusual for an area to furnish both ally and enemy at the same time! This volume covers the British, Indian and Anglo-Indian troops who fought for The Honourable East India Company and Britain over the varied landscape of what is present day Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, between the years 1826 and 1859.
The vast array of uniforms and dress worn by soldiers serving in India during this period is examined in detail, and extensive information is also provided on regimental Colours. The book’s nine chapters cover the campaign in Bhurtpore (1825–26); the Coorg campaign (1834); the First Afghan War (1839–42); the conquest of Sind (1843); the campaign against Gwalior (1843); the Sikh Wars (1845–46 and 1848–49); actions on the North-West Frontier (1849–58); the Santhal Rebellion (1855–56); and the Indian Mutiny (1857–59).
Each of these chapters includes uniform information specific to the campaign covered, while that on the Indian Mutiny also includes details of Mutineer dress. Many orders of battle and battle-plans are also included. Illustrations comprise 199 drawings of troop types and flags, and 27 other illustrations and maps.
- Автор: Терри Д. Хукер (текст), Иэн Хит (иллюстрации)
- Страниц: 192
- Фигур: 252
- Дата выхода: 2008 г.
This book should not be looked upon as a political or social history, although an understanding of these aspects would give a clearer insight into why and how Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay became embroiled in the largest war ever fought in South America.
It is, rather, a work covering the military side of the events that took place between 1810–70, with a hint of the political undercurrents that motivated the various wars fought in the region during the same period. Hopefully it will encourage readers to become interested in Latin and Central American military history—a vast field of research largely neglected in both Britain and the United States.
Колониальные армии[править]
- Автор: Питер Эббот (текст и иллюстрации), Иэн Хит (редактор)
- Страниц: 224
- Фигур: 229
- Дата выхода: 2006 г.
In the second half of the 19th century, European-led columns began to fan out across the African continent from their coastal footholds, smashing whatever forces could be brought against them, no matter how brave or determined the latter were. The process began at different dates in different parts of the continent, but much of the main activity was concentrated into the two decades between 1881 and 1902, subsequently but accurately nicknamed the ‘Scramble for Africa’.
By 1914 the Europeans had overrun the greater part of the continent, and, remarkably, had managed to do so without clashing with each other in the process: conflict between them only occurred after 1914 because what was essentially a European power-struggle was inevitably projected on to the African landscape. The armies responsible for this extraordinary period of expansion have seldom been surveyed as a whole, and never in the organisational detail attempted here.
As well as including an outline of the principal campaigns of the period, military historian Peter Abbott examines in detail the structure, dress and armament of the colonial armies fielded by the Congo Free State, the Belgian Congo, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and includes in his text an unprecedented amount of order of battle material. Illustrations include 229 drawings of soldiers, 58 other illustrations, and two maps.
- Автор: Питер Эббот (текст и иллюстрации), Иэн Хит (редактор)
- Страниц: 200
- Фигур: 243
- Дата выхода: 2010 г.
This book traces the developments in the structure, armament, and uniforms of the armies maintained by the imperial powers in Asia throughout the colonial period, with illustrative order of battle material wherever possible
The evolutionary development of the armies which maintained the colonial powers’ extraordinary ascendancy in the East for four and a half centuries has seldom been surveyed as a whole, and certainly not in the kind of organizational detail included in this book.
Армии XX века[править]
Первоначально серия называлась "Армии раннего XX века" или "Армии начала XX века", но вторая книга в серии имеет хронологические рамки до 1939 г., что уже никак не вписывается в первоначальную концепцию. Обе книги серии охватывают все континенты, в отличии от книг предыдущих серий, которые концентрировали внимание на одном регионе. Также в этой серии в 2011 г. должна была выйти третья книга под названием "Боксерское восстание" за авторством Майка Блэйка, однако по неизвестным причинам она не была выпущена.
- Автор: Эдвин Герберт (текст), Иэн Хит (иллюстрации)
- Страниц: 224
- Фигур: 254
- Дата выхода: 2004 г.
This is the first of a two volume series covering early twentieth century colonial campaigns in Africa, Asia and the Americas, ranging from Mexico and the Philippines to Africa and the North West Frontier. The text covers the political background to each conflict or "police" action and provides a brief campaign narrative accompanied by details of the organisation, tactics, dress and arms of the protagonists. There are 254 line drawings of warriors and soldiers and 34 maps of the various scenes of conflict.
- Автор: Эдвин Герберт (текст), Иэн Хит (иллюстрации)
- Страниц: 192
- Фигур: 137
- Дата выхода: 2007 г.
An earlier volume in this series covered Small Wars and Skirmishes 1902–18. The present volume extends coverage of such ‘small wars’ to the interwar years of 1919–39. After a hiatus during the Great War, when resources were diverted elsewhere, the earlier colonial incursions were followed in the 1920s and 1930s by a process of consolidation involving campaigns against emerging resistance movements, many of which owed their strength to religious fanaticism. Major nationalist leaders such as Abd el-Krim in Morocco and Omar al-Mukhtar in Libya emerged from 1920 onwards, and the spark provided by their resistance to foreign control lit the flame of post-1945 independence movements.
The title of this volume, Risings and Rebellions 1919–39, reflects the change in emphasis compared with the earlier colonial campaigns. Indeed, the sheer scale of such wars as the risings against the French and Spanish forces in Morocco and the Italian re-conquest of Libya takes them out of the category of ‘small wars’ altogether.
A book such as this cannot hope to cover all the civil disturbances, emergencies, outright revolts, insurrections, insurgencies, rebellions and campaigns of passive resistance that occurred against the colonial powers over a period of two decades. What it does attempt to do is to illustrate the main types of campaign involved, the organization of forces, the effects of new weaponry, and the tactics that the indigenous peoples used to counter the technology of the colonial invader, particularly by applying their local knowledge of some of the most difficult terrain in the world. In most cases at least one battle or skirmish is described in some detail in order to give a flavour of the significant factors involved. Sketch maps are provided to indicate the main campaigns and illustrations show the uniforms or tribal dress of the combatants.
Small wars and insurgencies did not, of course, end when Imperialism gave way to independence movements. They continued as incursions by more powerful neighboring states once the colonial powers had departed the scene (East Timor, Tibet, Western Sahara) or as civil wars, often arising from ethnic conflicts caused by the artificial boundaries created by the former colonial powers (Angola, Dar Fur, India/Pakistan, Indo-China, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Zaire). Nor is any end in sight – the lessons of history take a long time to learn, if indeed they are ever learnt.
The present volume includes appendices on weaponry and equipment, mechanized vehicles, communications, and the use of aircraft, armored cars and tanks in suppressing risings and rebellions. Each section of the text and the appendices is intended to be self-contained but concludes with a select bibliography in case readers wish to go back to original sources or to seek more detail on particular campaigns.
Продолжение[править]
Изначально было запланировано куда большее количество книг. В начала 2000-х гг. на официальном сайте издательства были опубликованы их планы на будущие книги в этой серии. Помимо вышедших книг, которые упомянуты выше, также планировались следующие книги в серии "Армии 19 века":
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia, 6: Philippines, by Ian Heath
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia, 7: Malaya and the East Indies, by Ian Heath
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia, 8: Afganistan and the North-West Frontier, by Ian Heath
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Africa 2 WEST AFRICA by Ian Knight
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Africa 3 Horn's by Ian Knight
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Africa 4 Southern Africa, by Ian Knight
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: South America 2 Revolution, by Terry Hooker
- Armies of the Nineteenth Century: The American Civil War, by Mike Blake
Также, вне существующих серий планировалось, также 2 другие книги:
- Armies of the Byzantine Empire, by Richard Brooks
- The Russian Civil War 1918-20, by David Bullock
К сожалению, эти книги так и не были выпущены.
