09-03-2006, 05:23 AM
Taz Wrote:Maybe someone has this book in their library and can give more details of the
communist period section.
I bought this book about 6 months ago, and it's really nice. The pictures are very clear and large and it has quite some descriptive text.
This goes for the communist stuff too. It shows the orders and medals and gives quite a lot of detailed info on them, particularly the number awarded for most of the orders. It also does a decent job of listing variations for many of the orders.
One serious drawback, at least in the communist section, is the fact that there are virtually no pics of the reverses of orders, and this is quite a shame (fortunately I have most of the pieces in person, so that helps at least for me).
A final cool touch is that it also deals quite extensively with post-communist orders. Overall this is a book well worth buying if you're into Bulgarian stuff, and it retails for around $85.
