What book is this?

[Flavio]

Hi all, for sure someone here knows this book. Could you please tell me the title, author and if someone can provide an english translation. Thank you very much.

[B.I]

a translation of the title or the content?
we would all kill for a translation of the text as its a fantastic book of turkish arms. worth buying for the imagery alone.

[ariel]

This is a book by Astvatsaturyan " Turkish Weapons" This one as well as her other one " Weapons of the Caucasian Nations" are simply classics. Ausjulius posted a pdf of the first edition of the "caucasian" book, but the second one is 3-4 times bigger.
The Russian Publishing House "Atlant" is preparing English editions of both.
http://www.atlant-tpg.ru/new.html
In December, they will release their new one, " Castles and Fortresses of India" and they specify that it will be a Russian edition (are they hinting on the English one?). They seem to be serious about it : one of their books " Dirks of the World" was published simultaneously in both versions.

[Flavio]

Thank you both, Brian and Ariel. Brian I have bought a copy of this book and indeed pictures are simply wonderful

[ausjulius]

im looking for others on the net,, things like intelectual property are not respected in russia ,
i have this and several other books , but to scan them all and make them into pdf images woudl be tomuch work .......

[wolviex]

I've got this book too and it's fabulous!!! Living in Poland it is quite easier for me to translate some passages of this book (many semantic similarities), but I admit that it is quite labour-absorbing process and English version would be just like salvation. I've got Russian-Polish translator which is great help, but unfortunately my OCR software doesn't want to cooperate properly with russian letters after copying them to text editor or translator - there are only sqaures instead of markings. So PDF made or found by ausjulius with OCR text like that on caucasian weapons would be great help too.

[ariel]

Originally Posted by ausjulius

im looking for others on the net,, things like intelectual property are not respected in russia ,
i have this and several other books , but to scan them all and make them into pdf images woudl be tomuch work .......

Like many other things in Russia "respect" is unidirectional: foreighners should respect all things Russian, but the reverse doesn't always work.
I have a friend in Moscow; both he and his son are lawyers for two large American firms specializing in intellectual property: they are pretty busy protecting Coca Cola and such from Russian knock-offs.
But a small Publishing House, like Atlant, is unlikely to afford much self-defence. I ordered a book from them once: had to send personal check to the name of the receptionist and waited 2 months for the book. All my inquiries got standard nonchalant messages: " what's the hurry? it will come one day... " The funniest thing, it did come: well packed, with a lovely postcard, obviously mailed 2-3 days after the check was cashed.... They still have to work a bit on their "customer relations" issues
It was Gorelik's book " Arms and Armour of the Ancient East". Absolutely brilliant! (Gorelik wrote a big chapter for Elgood's anthology on Islamic weapons). Truly a benchmark of erudition, professionalism and academic excellence! Nicolle's books pale in comparison.

[Aqtai]

I've seen that book on Ebay, and I have been tempted to buy it, unfortunately I cannot read Russian. I also have Italian, German and Polish books on my bookshelves, while I don't read those languages either, at least they use the same alphabet, so I can just about get the gist of things.


Edit:

I've just been on the publisher's website. The book seems to be out of print.