10-24-2007, 07:20 AM
I am a stubborn guy:)
I have bought it anyway.
The book isn't bad - some of the photographs are realy interesting (like the one where there is an officer in gimnastiorka and soldiers in new-style field unifiorms). Also it shows some of the symbols that are usualy hard to find on a good quality pictures.
The colours don't look better than e.g. in "Inside the Soviet Army Today", altough they are a bit more informative. The problem is that, looking at the one about polish army I see some obvious mistakes - e.g. there was no such thing as polish naval infantry at that ime and the units that were sometimes refered to as such, wore in fact blue berrets (like soviet VDV).
But otherwise, the book isn't that bad.
I have bought it anyway.
The book isn't bad - some of the photographs are realy interesting (like the one where there is an officer in gimnastiorka and soldiers in new-style field unifiorms). Also it shows some of the symbols that are usualy hard to find on a good quality pictures.
The colours don't look better than e.g. in "Inside the Soviet Army Today", altough they are a bit more informative. The problem is that, looking at the one about polish army I see some obvious mistakes - e.g. there was no such thing as polish naval infantry at that ime and the units that were sometimes refered to as such, wore in fact blue berrets (like soviet VDV).
But otherwise, the book isn't that bad.
