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Soviet Military Badges - A History and Collector's Guide (Paperback)
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Soviet Military Badges - A History and Collector's Guide (Paperback)
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List price R482
Loot Price R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
You Save R91 (19%)
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At its height in the late twentieth-century, the Soviet Armed
Forces boasted one of the world's largest armies. Yet, in the
twenty-five years that have passed since the fall of the Soviet
Union, much of its material culture has fast disappeared. Soviet
Military Badges: A History and Collector's Guide, therefore, offers
the reader a timely tour of a little-known subject within the
English language. In its pages are detailed the badges awarded to
the officers and men of the Soviet Army, Navy, Air Force and
Frontier Guards found during the Cold War era. Captured in full
colour and accompanied by a wealth of archive photographs, this
book examines such categories as sports badges, proficiency clasps,
and awards for excellence from the start of the Cold War in 1949
through to the end of the USSR in 1991. Each section is observed in
detail using the obverse and reverse views in order to identify and
date each badge, in addition to charting the changes in design and
manufacture encountered over time (often helping the reader
identify the rarer and more valuable examples). Richard Hollingdale
is a writer and academic historian specialising in the armies of
the Eastern Bloc. He is a frequent contributor to The Armourer
Magazine and has written numerous articles on the Soviet military
and other Warsaw Pact nations. His earlier publication, Warsaw Pact
Badges, offered the first detailed study of Eastern Bloc badges in
the English language. Soviet Military Badges follows this tradition
by presenting the reader with a detailed catalogue of Soviet badges
that can be used as both a history and a collector's guide.
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