IMPERIAL GERMAN FIELD UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT 1907-1918: VOLUME TWO

Volume Two covers: Infntry and Cavalry Helmets: Pickelhaube, Shako, Tschapa, Steel Helmets, etc: Infantry and Cavalry Uniforms: M1907/10, M1908, simplified 1915, Friedensrock 1915, Feldbluse 1915, Insignia, Imperial Marine.

This two-volume set provides the reader with an insight into the wide range of uniforms, weapons and field equipment used by the Imperial German Army during the First World War.The devastating and dramatic character of the war required many innovations in military clothing and equipment. New uniforms and adequate protection was a must and steel helmets appeared on the battlefield, replacing the outdated spiked helmets.Even medieval-looking items, like steel breastplates and trench clubs, were produced, giving the soliders a fearful appearance.The threat of poison gas caued the immediate development of gas masks.It was also the time of the tank, observation balloons, mine warfare, the Zeppelin, airplanes, flame-throwers, deadly machine guns, and other war machinery that saw service, sometimes for the first time.Using over 1000 colour and period photographs from private collections and museums, the author succeeds in showing a broad range of artifacts, together with full and to the point descriptions.This series is aimed towards the novice or advanced German World War I collector and enthusiast, military history student, modeller, researcher and re-enactor.

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Product Code:	9681
Author:	John Somers
ISBN:	0 7643 2262 1
Format:	240pp, over 500 b/w and colour photographs, hb.
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
Our Price:	£55.00