World War I Infantry In Color Photographs (Europa Militaria) [Paperback]

L Mirouze (Author)

Book Description

Series: Europa Militaria | Publication Date: June 10, 1999

Never before have actual battle uniforms, personal equipment, insignia and weapons of the infantrymen of the Great War been illustrated in such authentic detail. This exciting volume features the soldiers, their uniforms, their equipment and their weapons just as they were worn on the battlefield. Detailed text identifies and explains each item. Europa Militaria 3.

Product Details

• Paperback: 66 pages
• Publisher: Crowood (June 10, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861262884
• ISBN-13: 978-1861262882
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,085,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good selection surviving uniforms photographs, March 12, 2004

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Eduardo J. Tellez A (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World War I Infantry In Color Photographs (Europa Militaria) (Paperback)

Beatifull photos of Original surviving uniforms of the armies of the Great War, all the major Uniforms fron the French, Germans, Italian, US and Russians, in this book we can see the evolution of the first colorfull uniforms use by the French and the Belgians more suitable for the XIX century wars.

The German are portray as the classic image of the Great War with their famous spike helmet is amazing to see the transformation step by step to the end of the war.Many special unit like the Scottish with their Kilt and Glengarry, The Bersaglieri with the Cock Feather Hat, the French alpine infantryman, French foreign legionnaire, the change of the belgian Uniform are present in Colour Photographs, also the description of the equipment is small but very informative for 66 pages of 31 soldiers photos from both front and back.

Simply unmissable, interests if you are either as historian or modeller and a excellent guide if you collect Military Uniforms.

The only low point is that there are no uniforms The Ottoman Army,Austro-Hungarian Forces, French Colonial Troops,The Gurkha Rifles, the Canadians,British Territorial Units and the Indians Troops,Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian,Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian. The East Africa conflict fought by forces of colonial troops, British Empire, German, Belgian and Portuguese, no uniforms of naval troops and officers. Lets hope to see a second part for calvary and artillery troops.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have For The Collector, August 9, 2001

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Mike Morrison (Scottsdale, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World War I Infantry In Color Photographs (Europa Militaria) (Paperback)

This is a nice book for anyone who is interested in the uniforms and equipment of the WWI soldier. The color photographs do a very nice job of displaying the uniforms on real life models. This book gives the reader a very good idea of how the soldiers actually looked during the Great War, and how the uniforms evolved throughout the war. A special emphasis was also placed upon the field gear and equipment as well. We need more books like this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good resource, January 22, 2002

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P. Geyer "prgeyer" (Vienna, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This is the book that sparked my interest in WW1 uniforms. This is a fantastic resource for people interested in what the uniforms really looked like, and how they were worn. The use of in-depth descriptions of the various pieces of equipment is a method that all uniform books should copy. As with many others, I wish that they had shown Ottoman or more Austrian and Commonwealth uniforms. However, this is another great edition from a fantastic series.

If any publishers are reading this, PLEASE produce more books about WW1 uniforms. This is a sadly underrepresented topic.