Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Book of Camouflage: The Art of Disappearing
    The Book of Camouflage: The Art of Disappearing
    The Book of Camouflage: The Art of Disappearing
    Ebook107 pages32 minutes

    The Book of Camouflage: The Art of Disappearing

    By Tim Newark

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    From its origins to its use in combat today, 'The Little Book of Camouflage' tells the history of camouflage in conflict. Its conception, its uses and the colours are looked at, as well as the key patterns such as the German uniforms of World War II, the ever-recognisable American type worn during Vietnam and the British DPM forming a sort of recognition guide to the various patterns in use in the armies of history and present day. Illustrated throughout with the patterns themselves and images of camouflage in use, Tim Newark presents a quick and detailed look at the most prolific camouflage patterns.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateSep 20, 2013
    ISBN9781472802934
    The Book of Camouflage: The Art of Disappearing
    Author

    Tim Newark

    Tim Newark is the author of several critically acclaimed military history books, including Highlander, The Fighting Irish, The Mafia at War, and Camouflage, which accompanied the Imperial War Museum exhibition. He was the editor of Military Illustrated for 17 years and has written seven TV military history documentary series, including Hitler's Bodyguards. He recently authored In & Out: a History of the Naval and Military Club for Osprey.

    Read more from Tim Newark

    Related to The Book of Camouflage

    Related ebooks

    Wars & Military For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Golan Heights

      Apr 18, 2019

      At 14:05 on 6 October 1973, the Syrian Army unleashed a massive assault on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The attack was part of a two pronged assault on Israel, with the Egyptian Army having attacked across the Suez Canal only 15 minutes before

      10 min read

    • Article

      War Bows

      Feb 21, 2019

      War Bows
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Last Serving Battle Rifle G3

      Apr 27, 2020

      THE G3 IS overshadowed by its contemporaries for reasons that perhaps have more to do with politics than functionality and reliability, and could make for a good story on its own. As a battle, it is quite easily one of the best out there; it saw exte

      5 min read

    • Article

      Carrying With An Empty chamber

      Jun 27, 2023

      Carrying With An Empty chamber
      4 min read

    • Article

      Gunroom

      Mar 18, 2020

      Gunroom
      2 min read

    • Article

      Panzer Invasion

      May 14, 2020

      Panzer Invasion
      12 min read

    • Article

      War And Peace

      Dec 21, 2023

      War And Peace
      5 min read

    • Article

      CAMOUFLEURS And the Art of War

      Jan 1, 2022

      In the spring of 1918, strange things were afoot in New York City’s Van Cortland Park. Rocks and trees were moving and calling out across the landscape. “I stumbled over a hump of grass, which squealed when I stepped on it, and rose before me,” wrote

      4 min read

    • Article

      Gunroom

      Apr 15, 2020

      From 1792 onwards, war with Revolutionary France created a deep-seated fear of French invasion in Britain. While the prospect of an enemy invader on home soil was bad enough, there was an additional political dimension at play here. The French were a

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Chosen One

      Sep 6, 2022

      The Chosen One
      2 min read

    • Article

      In The Ranks

      Oct 31, 2019

      In The Ranks
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Bayonet

      Jul 10, 2023

      The Bayonet
      5 min read

    • Article

      Toys For Boys

      Jul 21, 2021

      Toys For Boys
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Stitch In Time

      May 3, 2022

      A Stitch In Time
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Man In Uniform

      Nov 2, 2022

      A Man In Uniform
      5 min read

    • Article

      Churchill’s Boer Commandos

      Dec 27, 2019

      Churchill’s Boer Commandos
      7 min read

    • Article

      Body Of Work

      Jul 12, 2022

      Body Of Work
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Sound Of Silence

      Apr 5, 2022

      The Sound Of Silence
      3 min read

    • Article

      Westley Richards

      May 14, 2021

      Westley Richards
      7 min read

    • Article

      Rare Lance Of The 21 St Lancers

      Jan 20, 2020

      THE BRILLIANT ARTICLE on Kitchener (Nov 2019 edition) and his involvement in the cavalry charge at Omdurman in 1898 prompted me to share this story. Some years ago, I attended an auction on a farm in the Fauresmith district, which had belonged to the

      3 min read

    • Article

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER

      Jan 20, 2022

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Red Baron and the .303 Bullet

      Feb 17, 2020

      IT WAS AN hour before noon on 21 April 1918, when a .303 Brit bullet slammed into the chest of the pilot of a red, three-winged aeroplane flying over the Somme River in France. Moments later, the world’s most feared fighter ace cras landed in a beet

      5 min read

    • Article

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER

      Feb 16, 2023

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
      6 min read

    • Article

      Thomas Wilson’s Breech-Loading Rifle

      Dec 16, 2019

      OVER THE LAST 160 years the African continent has had the fortune to receive a wide range of firearms exported from Great Britain and Europe. Many were exports of well-known gunmakers from Birmingham, London, Liège, and Suhl, facilitated by their tra

      6 min read

    • Article

      Saleroom

      Jan 5, 2024

      Saleroom
      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Book of Camouflage

    4/5

    2 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      A brief introduction to camouflage. This book touches on some general history of camo as well as camouflage from different regions around the world. Might have been easier to focus on one region or timeframe so the flow of the writing doesn't feel jumpy. The work does incorporate plenty of pictures and illustrations. Overall, an interesting read.Net Galley Feedback

    Book preview

    The Book of Camouflage - Tim Newark

    The very first camouflage was used by hunters to disguise themselves from their prey and could take the form of foliage or mud smeared over their bodies, to hide their scent as well as their appearance. In this scene, portrayed by artist George Catlin in 1840, North American Plains Indians creep up on grazing buffalo while wearing wolf skins; the Native Americans hope their skin covering imbues them with the spirit of the predator animal so that they can scatter and separate the buffalo just as a pack of wolves might. Hunters today continue to use camouflage, wearing both camouflage pattern textiles and the more traditional ghillie suit, which was devised by Scottish gamekeepers and made up of hundreds of strips of cloth attached to netting. The ghillie suit is a favourite with army snipers too. More recently, hunter Bill Jordan founded the Realtree camouflage company in 1986 which produces very effective textile designs of overlaying leaves, twigs and bark that create a three dimensional illusion of foliage.

    British Army riflemen of the early 19th century. A soldier of the 60th (Royal American) Foot stands, while one from the 95th Rifle Regiment kneels. Both were members of elite regiments that engaged in a new kind of warfare – skirmishing – which saw them advance in open formation, using cover, to shoot at closely ordered ranks of brightly uniformed soldiers. They deployed the more accurate rifle – rather than the musket – and wore green jackets to camouflage their movements. They were the predecessors of the modern combat soldier, and the 95th has since been made famous by the Sharpe novels of Bernard Cornwell. The artist of this illustration was Captain Charles Hamilton Smith, who served in the 60th and was an accomplished natural historian. He once carried out an experiment to determine which was the most effective uniform colour to camouflage a soldier at a distance and concluded that grey was more effective than green – the colour worn by the Austrian sharpshooting Jager.

    The Corps of Guides, a combination of cavalry and infantry raised by Henry Lumsden in the Punjab in 1846, was the first unit in the British Army to wear khaki. Khaki is a Hindi word meaning dustcoloured, derived from the Persian khak for soil or dirt. Lumdsen equipped his native soldiers with loose-fitting trousers and jackets based on the local kurta, which he then had dyed with river mud that produced more of a grey, rather than brown, colour. Major William Hodson, second-in-command of the Corps of Guides realized its camouflage value when he said the khaki uniforms made his soldiers ‘invisible in a

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1