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The Book of the Homeless (1916)

- January 9, 2018 in charity, edith wharton, first world war, homelessness, refugees, war

Collection of essays, art, poetry, and musical scores, edited by Edith Wharton, whose profits were used to fund civilians displaced by World War I.

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The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

- October 24, 2017 in 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry, Adolph Metzner, art, battle, camp life, civil war, death, war

Remarkable collection of sketches, drawings and watercolours left to us by Adolph Metzner, during his three years of service with the 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry.

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The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

- October 3, 2017 in 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry, Adolph Metzner, art, battle, camp life, civil war, death, war

Remarkable collection of sketches, drawings and watercolours left to us by Adolph Metzner, during his three years of service with the 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry.

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The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

- October 3, 2017 in 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry, Adolph Metzner, art, battle, camp life, civil war, death, war

Remarkable collection of sketches, drawings and watercolours left to us by Adolph Metzner, during his three years of service with the 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

- June 1, 2017 in combat, dagger, fencing, fighting, Fiore dei Liberi, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, guide, horses, how-to, Il Fior di Battaglia, knife, manual, swords, violence, war

15th-century how-to guide in the art of combat, including unarmed, with daggers, swords, poleaxes and on horseback.

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The War Art of Paul Nash (1917–1944)

- May 11, 2017 in first world war, paul nash, second world war, war, war artist, world war one, world war two

Depictions of the destroyed and broken landscapes of the First and Second World War by the English artist Paul Nash, amongst the most important landscape artists of the twentieth century.

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