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Index
Cover
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Toy soldiers: what a passion!
Acknowledgements
Foreword: The miniature through the ages
Toy and Model Soldiers: History and Gossip
Chapter 1: Some reasons why you too can love toy and model soldiers and figures
Chapter 2: Archeosoldiers: between play and religion (c. sixth century BC to c. sixth century AD)
Chapter 3: The Profession of Arms (c. thirteenth to eighteenth century)
Chapter 4: Zinnfiguren und Drang (c. eighteenth century to today)
Chapter 4.1: Light and shade of the flat tin soldier
Cameo: Toy-Soldiers can move anything – even themselves By Gisbert Freber
Chapter 5: Paper Moon: dreams and battles with paper soldiers(c. eighteenth century to today)
Chapter 6: Half-round toy soldier: the missing link, its rise and fall
Chapter 7: Pinocchio in uniform and other merry soldiers (c. nineteenth to twentieth century)
Cameo: A collector’s (myself) anecdote: Go hunting
Chapter 8: The bee and the toy soldier: the epic of the solid (c. nineteenth to twentieth century)
Cameo: Heyde to dream about By Steve Sommers
Chapter 9: The ephemeral Kingdom of Aluminium (c. 1930-56)
Chapter 10: ‘The Hollow Man’s Burden’ (nineteenth to twentieth centuries)
Cameo: 60 years of collecting Toy Soldiers By Rob Wilson
Chapter 10.1: Hollow-cast beyond the Channel, and its Dimestore version
Cameo: Dimestore By Don Pielin
Chapter 11: Toy soldiers march in goose-step (twentieth century)
Chapter 12: The ‘lightness’ of the war (twentieth century to today)
Chapter 12.1: The ‘Middle Earth’: Airfix and others
Chapter 13: The Era of the Model, or the ‘associative’ soldier (twentieth century)
Chapter 13.1: Todels or moys?
Chapter 13.2: The men for all seasons
Chapter 13. 3: The New Model (Soldiers) Army
Chapter 13.4: Plastic models and plastic conversions
Cameo: Willie and Swinging London: Anecdotes from a youngMaoist traveller By … yours truly
Chapter 14: Composite figures
Cameo: The perspective of a maker By Giannetto Bruzzone
Chapter 15: Lilliputians go to war
Chapter 16: New old toy soldiers: filling a gap, solace for a loss (twentieth century)
Cameo: Memories of an ‘Alchemist’ By John Tunstill
Chapter 17: Some Useful Reading
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