Military Uniforms in Colours

Sinopse

“Military Uniforms Of The World In Colour 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 worn past and present by the navies, armies and air forces of 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 colours, 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.
The text forms an invaluable supplement to the illustrations, giving as it does full information as to the design, cut, colour-combination, ornamentation, marks of rank and other distinctive features. Functional aspects of dress and equipment are also explained. But its interest transcends the individual uniform described: read as a whole it forms an invaluable account of the development of uniforms through the ages, not only as worn by national armies but also in relation to the various branches of the service comprising them.
There is a glossary of military terms and a comprehensive index which facilitates quick reference to the uniforms which are grouped under countries or states.” in Preface