Heraldry Pdf

In full colour throughout the 72 pages, this 2008 hardback publication by Games Workshop has been compiled by (with credits to Neil Hodgson and Jeremy Vetock) meticulously poring over everything ever produced by Games Workshop about the Empire, including Warhammer Armies books, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, White Dwarf, and many other publications.

Coats of arms, family crests, military insignia, and the like have long intrigued many people.

Explains the colorful origin and the meaning of heraldry and its use by some of today's well-known personalities.

The heraldry of war–the vivid, colourful display of uniforms, medals, badges, and banners–has always been a heavy inducement to men to take up arms. But their main function is neither to confer glamour on their wearers, nor are they for mere empty display. There is, in the most sophisticated of men, something of the primitive. Modern man, whether in the thick of battle or in one of those situations of complete isolation that occur so frequently in modern war–deep in the bowels of a warship in action, in a trench under shellfire, or in the cockpit of an aeroplane with enemy aircraft in sight–needs a sense of identity with country and comrades. The cross section of uniforms, medals, and insignia contained in this book can, then, be regarded as something more than a collection of colourful devices and complex designs.