Although there have been, and continue to be, many books written on a wide variety of aspects of the First World War, this work not only approaches the history of the war from a unique perspective, but also comprehensively covers many of these aspects. Utilizing cards from the extensive, remarkably detailed and mostly contemporaneous issues of cigarette and trade card sets related to the First World War, the author provides a richly illustrated and descriptive tapestry of this great conflict. Not only are the usual political and armed services aspects of the war covered in detail, but also the many other less covered parts receive attention. These latter include regal aspects, and other components of the military such as armamentarium, awards, uniforms and militaria. Then the important role that propaganda played is also covered. The social and literary aspects of the war form an important part of the book. All these written details, a significant amount of which is drawn from the descriptions on the cards, complement the hundreds of card illustrations found throughout the work.

The First World War on Cigarette and Trade Cards: An Illustrated and Descriptive History

History

Mazansky, Cyril

Military

Schiffer

The phrase basket-type hilts refers to a large group of hilts which provide a degree of protection to the hand and wrist. Basket-hilted swords have featured prominently among British military edged weapons over the past five centuries, from the Wars of the Roses in the mid fifteenth century to the period immediately after the second Boer War of the early twentieth century. In setting out to give a full account of the hilt type, and the many variants within it, the first necessity has been to provide an appropriate terminology to employ in cataloguing and describing individual examples. The book, well illustrated with 100 black and white illustrations, falls into several parts, dealing successively with general aspects of various hilt types and discussion of typological methodology, the three major groups of basket-hilted swords, the diverse group of incomplete basket hilts, "mortuary" hilts, and hilts closely related to "mortuary" hilts. CYRIL MAZANSKY's expertise in British military swords grew out of his interest in aspects of British military history. His large collection of British military swords may be seen at Brown University, donated by the author.

British Basket-Hilted Swords: A Typology of Basket-Type Sword Hilts

Europe

Boydell Press

The Sages of Our Tradition: Interpreters of the Tanakh and Talmud

This book is an encyclopedic and bibliographic approach to the Rabbis from the days of the Mishnah through our own generation who interpreted and transmitted the Written and Oral Torah. Dr. Cyril Mazansky has created a comprehensive English-language biography of the more prominent of these great Sages and presents categories and classifications of their works using a straightforward approach to clearly present this wealth of data. This information will provide the general reader and student with a comprehensive reference book, in English, on the great scholars and religious authors of the Biblical and Talmudic interpretive tradition throughout the centuries.

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Mazo Publishers

Implicit in the title of this book, The Sages Of Our Tradition, is the concept of Chachmei HaMesorah, "Sages of the Tradition". These Sages are the Rabbis from the days of the Mishnah through our own generation who interpreted and transmitted the Written and Oral Torah. Dr. Cyril Mazansky has created a comprehensive English-language biography of the more prominent of these great Sages and presents categories and classifications of their works using a straightforward approach to clearly present this wealth of data. This information will provide the general reader and student with a comprehensive reference book, in English, on the great scholars and religious authors of the Biblical and Talmudic interpretive tradition throughout the centuries.

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

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