REFERENCE BOOK ON GERMAN UNIFORMS AND BAYONETS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE RON TUNISON

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Book is titled “GERMAN UNIFORMS AND BAYONETS 1841-1945 676 PICTURES OF SOLDIERS WITH THEIR BAYONETS” by Klaus Lubbe and published by Niemann of Hamburg, Germany in 1999.

Volume meas. approx. 8.50 x 12 with printed blue covers that are in very good condition with only very minor surface dirt from storage. Binding is excellent.

Interior is printed on coated paper and runs approx. 164 pages and is profusely illustrated with black and white photos of German soldiers from the designated period armed with bayonets and other field equipment with descriptive captions done in both German and English.

Ron Tunison (1947 – 2013) was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y., and was a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was a scholarship student at the NYC National Academy where he continued his sculpting studies. He went on to become an internationally acclaimed sculptor of nine heroic bronze monuments: "General W. Crawford," near Little Round Top on the Gettysburg Battlefield, the “Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial" on Steinwehr Ave., the bas-relief "Delaware State Memorial" on Taneytown Road, and "The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial" at Evergreen Cemetery. On the Antietam National Battlefield is Tunison's "Irish Brigade Monument." "The Bivouac" is at the entrance to the Civil War Soldier's Museum at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Va. "The Delaware Continentals" heroic size bronze of three advancing Revolutionary War soldiers stands atop a twenty-five-foot granite pedestal in front of Legislative Hall at Dover, Delaware. At Ringgold Gap in Atlanta, Ga., is Ron's life-size General Patrick Cleburne. Dedication ceremonies for “General John Barry, U.S. Naval Commander”, took place May 10th, 2014 at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.  Ron was the entrepreneur behind his own company Historical Sculptures, where he sculpted smaller statues. [ad] [ph:L]

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