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Military Uniforms of the World in Color

By: Blandford Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Reference Books (Blanford Press)


Product Info

Title
Military Uniforms of the World in Color
Publisher
Category
Author
Preben Kannik, William Carman
Publish Year
1968
Pages
278
Dimensions
4.75x7.5x1"
NKG Part #
2147616921
Type
Hardcover

Description

Military Uniforms of the World in Color is the first real manual of its kind ever published in the English language, as well as the most comprehensive guide to uniforms available in the world today at a popular price. It illustrates and describes more than five hundred uniforms won past and present by the navies, armies, and air forces for the world. They are dealt with war by war, in chronological order, from the germ of military uniforming in the bodyguards and household guards of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, via those of the European and colonial wars of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth, fought by troops in bright colors, to the field-grey and khaki of the two World Wars. The blue berets and steel helmets of the United Nations peace keeping forces with the traditional uniforms of guards and ceremonial units, logically bring up the rear of this cavalcade of uniforms.