London Greenhill Press 1993 1st Edition Hardcover VG in VG+ jacket Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardback book bound in black boards with gilt title on the spine. Only defect to note is former owner's embossed seal on first title page. No defects to note on the dust jacket. The fabled 'Blue Berets' the Russian Airborne and Special Forces for the first time let a westerner to study them in detail. Black and white photos. 288 pages including the Index.

ISBN10: 185367155X, ISBN13: 9781853671555, [publisher: Greenhill Press, London] Hardcover First Edition Hardback book bound in black boards with gilt title on the spine. Only defect to note is former owner's embossed seal on first title page. No defects to note on the dust jacket. The fabled 'Blue Berets' the Russian Airborne and Special Forces for the first time let a westerner to study them in detail. Black and white photos. 288 pages including the Index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
[Bella Vista, AR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
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London, England: Greenhill Books, Date: 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 288 pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Appendices, Index, 3 black and white maps, 27 black and white illustrations. Topics covered include A World-Class Fighting Force; The Spearhead of Soviet Military Power; Intervention in Afghanistan; New Blood in Afghanistan; The Making of a Modern Elite; In Action Within a Crumbling Empire; The Coup and After; and The Russian Army Reborn. Includes many firsthand accounts from the officers and men, and includes valuable reference material, including orders of battle and biographies of key figures. Carey Schofield has done it again with The Russian Elite. This book is a classic on Russia's first line of warfighting, the airborne troops and the Russian special forces or spetsnaz. Her previous book on the Russian armed forces was also terrific. Carey Schofield OBE (born 1953) is the British principal of Langlands School and College in Pakistan, noted for its academic excellence. She had a previous career as a journalist and writer, particularly on military affairs. With the support of the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, Schofield spent five years embedded with the Pakistan Armed Forces, interviewing all ranks for Inside the Pakistan Army (2011)[3] One of her informants was Special Forces commander Ameer Faisal Alavi, assassinated in 2008.[4] During these years, she reported for the Sunday Times. For the first ...