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Matheson was a key figure in Canada’s divisive flag debate of 1964, and his book gives a detailed insider’s view of how Canada got its current National Flag. I read the book in paper form about a year ago, and I really enjoyed it. I heartily recommend it to everybody interested in flags.
Dean Tiegs, 03 Mar 1999

Of its 22 chapters, 3 are background information on standards, banners and kinds of flags, 12 are primarily on British flags, 3 are on flags of “foreign” countries, and the remaining 6 are introductory, conclusive, or on signal flags, usage of flags, and the use of flags in warfare. It has 32 line drawings and 6 plates, one of Napoleon’s standard, one of the «Bluidie Banner carried at Bothwell Bridge in 1679», one of three variants of the Union Jack, and three each with 12 international flags on them.
Rob Raeside

This book is very good. Only minor error are detected (many of them related by blue shades).
Jaume Ollé, 11 Oct 1999

Not a bad little book: shows the flags and arms of every nation and the flags of all dependencies in colour, plus B&W drawings of the British dependencies’ arms (added by Crampton?). The text is middling in quality — one or two paragraphs on each country — and is biased towards the flags, with little information on the coats of arms. It has a few idiosyncracies coming from it originating from the Soviet bloc: West Berlin for instance is listed separately from West Germany as a “statutory city”.

It includes some flags not often encountered in books, including all the UN specialist organisations’ flags and the flags of no less than thirteen national vexillological organisations. It is the only book I can recall seeing that has the (unofficial) flag of Wake Island.

You may have this listed already as a work by William Crampton, as the jacket only credits him. However it is clearly stated on the title page that Crampton was editing a work by another author.

Roy Stilling, 28 Sep 1999

I dont think that the black and white drawings of the British dependencies’ arms were added by Crampton. At least the second edition [mch87] of the czech original includes quite a few of them: Gibraltar, Hongkong, St. Helena, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Falklands and Pitcairn. And these are not by far the only in text illustrations in this book.
António Martins, 20 Nov 1999

While it has a lot of vexi-lore it sorely lacks images as in Pedersen’s books.
Jarig Bakker, 29 Sep 1999

A very good book, remakably “serious”, considering the time and place of edition. The flag images, f.i., are shown not only in the correct ratios (something often forgotten in similar books), but these are also specified near each image.
António Martins, 31 Oct 1999

In this book, the color illustrations (flags and coats of arms of independent countries and of some dependencies) are in sets of pages separated from the explaining texts. Among these, though, there are some more (black and white) illustrations, depicting coats of arms, construction sheets, and similar details.
António Martins, 20 Nov 1999