To be brutally honest... the book isn't so good, although the cover looks great!
I've never seen a reference book (especially on a subject so narrow and so well-known already) with so many errors, pictures not correlating to their title, pictures of one class showing up, undersigned as another, same pictures apprear at diff. pages, but signed as different orders (diff. S/N and awardee), quality of pics quite lame and size so small on half of them you cannot make out a S/N. Large format, but not enough really usefull information, ex. the author had to waste 4 (four) pages to show how the ribbons look like (!?), and fill up quite a real estate with biographies of both admirals and other pretty unrelated stuff... List goes on... With a price tag of $60-70 I think it's a waste of money, expressely since most of forum members don't own any of the orders described:mad:
The only good thing there is the full listing of awardees of both 1st and 2nd class orders (both Ush. and Nakh.), but that also has I think 2 errors in there... Still, for Nakhimov 2nd class, this is the first time a full list appeared in public.
Those who have the order and for some reason didn't research it yet, now simply don't have to. :)
Just my 2 indian heads:rolleyes:
-AF.
I've never seen a reference book (especially on a subject so narrow and so well-known already) with so many errors, pictures not correlating to their title, pictures of one class showing up, undersigned as another, same pictures apprear at diff. pages, but signed as different orders (diff. S/N and awardee), quality of pics quite lame and size so small on half of them you cannot make out a S/N. Large format, but not enough really usefull information, ex. the author had to waste 4 (four) pages to show how the ribbons look like (!?), and fill up quite a real estate with biographies of both admirals and other pretty unrelated stuff... List goes on... With a price tag of $60-70 I think it's a waste of money, expressely since most of forum members don't own any of the orders described:mad:
The only good thing there is the full listing of awardees of both 1st and 2nd class orders (both Ush. and Nakh.), but that also has I think 2 errors in there... Still, for Nakhimov 2nd class, this is the first time a full list appeared in public.
Those who have the order and for some reason didn't research it yet, now simply don't have to. :)
Just my 2 indian heads:rolleyes:
-AF.
