From the front and rear flap of this 361 page book: "Flags stream gallantly through history - on spears and masts, fluttering from crenelated towers, stabbed into bullet-swept high ground, standing beside heads of state, painted on bomber's flanks, livening the United Nations' plaza, leading every prideful parade there ever was....the flag always has stood at the center of man's ideas, his ideals and achievements, his aspirations and defeats. The sweep of history has seen men and women everywhere rally around flags, from time immemorial when flags were crude marks of identity and symbols of great emotion to the great revolutions that saw the emergence of today's nation-states and their national flags. 'Flags Through the Ages and Across the World' is a major survery of civilization from the perspective of that unique artifact the flag - an exciting 5,000 year panorama that begins in the ancient Middle East and China and continues with the conquering Roman legionnaires, the early Christians, and their rash but stalwart descendants, the Crusaders. [This book] is the first truly comprehensive reference book on flags. This definitive book is the most complete source in existence for the official flags and coats of arms, as well as their symbols, of the world's 157 nations and their subdivisions and dependencies, accompanied by more than 2,250 illustrations created expressly for this book. [It is} a glorious spectacle with its astounding 2,800 full-color and 250 black-and-white illustrations of paintings, drawings, healdic coats of arms, flags - all superbly displayed. It is also the most thorough reference work on flag design, usage, rules, and symbolism and is a useful guide to principal flag types, shapes, and flag-related devices."

Flags Through the Ages and Across the World

SMITH, Whitney

McGraw=Hill

Reviews the flags and arms of the 174 nations of the world, presenting each country's flag and insignia according to official specifications of color, proportion, and design, outlining their history, and analyzing their symbolism

Flags and Arms Across the World

History

Americas

Reviews the flags and arms of the 174 nations of the world, presenting each country's flag and insignia according to official specifications of color, proportion, and design, outlining their history, and analyzing their symbolism

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

The flag book of the United States

Pictures, describes, and offers brief histories of the colonial, national, state, territorial, and other flags and ensigns associated with the United States

The Flag Book of the United States

William Morrow & Co.

Morrow

A comprehensive book presents the flags of the 192 recognized independent countries while offering facts about each one's history and symbolism, complete with world map.

Flag Lore of All Nations

Children's Books

Millbrook Pr

A comprehensive book presents the flags of the 192 recognized independent countries while offering facts about each one's history and symbolism, complete with world map. Reprint.

Both sides of the Civil War had magnificent banners. When the pictures are colored you will have the most colorful collection of flags since the days of blue and gray.

Civil War Flags Coloring Book

Bellerophon Books

Conkle, Nancy

Activities, Crafts & Games

Offering a wide-ranging selection of ecological and imaginative writing, Wild Culture is playful, innovative, and insightful. Articles include an investigation of the world as a household; Yeats, Greek mythology, and an afternoon at the zoo; women's chemistry; mind jazz; and a great deal more.

Wild Culture: Ecology and Imagination

Science & Math

Lowry, Christopher

Biological Sciences

Somerville House, USA

his volume is a unique and new selection of important flags - both well known and obscure - in this extraordinary new book offers the reader a living history of the major themes of American flags - the birth and growth of the Stars and Stripes (plus little known variants), naval and military colors, official and popular flag usage, flags involved with major events, etc. Original flags associated with Lincoln and Custer, the limousine flags from Kennedy's assassination, flags from Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are analyzed. Original examples chronicle flags from 13 to 50 stars and three thoughtful essays define the meaning of the flag

American Flag Two Centuries of Concord and Conflict

Madaus, Howard Michael

VZ Publications

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Flags Through the Ages and Across the World

Flags and Arms Across the World

Flags and Arms Across the World

The Flag Book of the United States

The flag book of the United States

Flag Lore of All Nations

Flag Lore of All Nations

Civil War Flags Coloring Book

Wild Culture: Ecology and Imagination

American Flag Two Centuries of Concord and Conflict