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World War I Infantry In Color Photographs (Europa Militaria)

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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.

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.

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.

This is a very useful book, portraying most of the uniform and personal equipment that WW1 infantry soldiers carried and used. There are several uniform sets missing - Indian, Canadian, Australian, New Zealands and some Austrian as well. In general this book is very useful and the pictures and explanations are detailed. It is a good buy.

Like all of the book sin the Europa Militaire series, this volume is a wonderful source of color images of period uniforms and gear. While some of the models are a bit stiffly posed, and some more action-oriented shots would have been in order, I highly recommend this to any students of WWI or military uniforms.

I also recommend the entire series. Some of the volumes also feature colour photos of historical re-enactors as well as models and all have fairly well-researched text, too.

This is an excellent reference for anyone studying the frist world war. It is one of the few books that covers Belgian and Russian troops, it also covers our Black troops, who are so often ignored by the mainstream history books, but I would have to agree with the gentleman from Brazil, I too was disappointed that it did not cover early Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Balkan Armies. It does do an excellent job in what it does cover.

I agree with the other comments made on this book. Also, the author succeeds in showing uniform worn in 1914 when the conflict just started and many nations were using outdated uniforms and equipment, and also the uniforms worn throughout the conflict until 1918. It gives the reader a real appreciation how the uniforms evolved. A great study.

This is the English lsnguage dition of the original work prepared by Mirouze. It is a collected set of features originally publihed in the French periodical Militaria by Histoire et Collections. Each perodical issue contains one or more two page photo articles entitled Gros Plans. These articles are of a horizontal nature (i.e. illustrating everything an individual would carry and wear at a particular time and place). They have assemblages qorn by models and closeups of some individual items.
Although other reviewers have bemoaned the lack of coverage of Balkan, Colonial, and African troops of all empires, there are two problems with this criticism. First,the large format of the book would soon be unwieldy and second, the lack of contact with the West until the Iron Curtain came down has impeded contributions from eastern bloc scholars to western publications.
I am impressed by the amount of new material now being published on Eastern Europe by Osprey (c.f.). One should expect much new material to appear in future issues of Militaria as well.
So one must give praise for what is here, not what should be or could be. And hope that Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, and Austria Hungary will get their due eventually. A second volume should be produced sometime.

This book has uniforms from most combatants (excluding, as noted in a couple of other reviews, the early Austro-Hungarian and Balkan Armies) from early war right through to the end. For those of us who paint historical miniatures it is an invaluable resource.

O livro apresenta excelentes fotos coloridas de modelos vivos, com certeza é uma boa fonte de pesquisa sobre a primeira guerra mundial, entretanto é decepcionante observar, que não há nenhuma foto dos uniformes Austro-Húngaros(agosto de l914), Otomanos, Romenos, Búlgaros etc. Com certeza com fotos desses uniformes o livro mereceria cinco estrelas.