Verlag Militaria 2006-01-01 Hardcover Good Size: 0x0x0; Front hinge is unglued. Moderate wear and chipping to dust jacket. Contents are crisp, clean, complete and undamaged. Very large and heavy book. Book was donated to Friends of the Omaha Public Library.

ISBN10: 3902526092, ISBN13: 9783902526090, [publisher: Verlag Militaria] Hardcover HB 528 pp approx. 1000 photographs and illustrations. The originals illustrated in the book derive from the Musà e de l'Armà e in Paris and Salon-de-Provence (L'Empà rie) and are supplemented by major public and private collections. The majority of the artefacts are shown to the public for the first time. All of this presents a well structured and authentic picture of the French army at the beginning of the war and during the initial fighting in the Battle of the Marne. With more than 300 carefully selected black and white and ten contemporary, original colour photographs ('autochromes') the reader is given a realistic impression of the appearance of the French army in the 'Belle Epoque'. The book shows the reader the colourfulness of the French army at the beginning of the war in Europe, supplemented by the traditions of African and Arab units and influences on uniforms. The orientally inspired clothing of 'L'Armà e d'Afrique', the uniforms of the Foreign Legion and colonial troops and elegant officers' clothing mirror both the fashions of the time and the prestige of wearing uniform. The complete equipment of a colonial soldier before 1914 - from his kà pi to his knife - in almost mint quality, each individual item stamped with the personal registration number of the soldier, gives these objects a human and emotional dimensio ...

ISBN10: 3902526092, ISBN13: 9783902526090, [publisher: Wien, Verlag Militaria] Hardcover Gebundene Ausgabe, Ganzleineneinband mit farbig illustrierten Original-Schutzumschlag, Großformat, 528 Seiten, mit vielen Abbildungen, englischsprachige Ausgabe/English edition, sehr guter Zustand, wie neu - 2007. (T2192A) ISBN: 3902526092 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2500
[Ilsede, Germany] [Publication Year: 2007]
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