Stalin's War - Soviet Uniforms and Militaria 1941-45
Soviet Uniforms and Militaria 1941-45
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2006
Summary
This is the third volume by the acclaimed Hungarian collector-and-photographer team, identifying and explaining historic Soviet militaria from private collections.
A wide range of uniforms, insignia, awards, weapons, equipment, documents and ephemera from the Soviet Union’s ‘Great Patriotic War’ are illustrated, in more than 230 close-up colour studies, supported by more than 60 fascinating monochrome photographs that have survived, unpublished, in private hands.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781861268228 |
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| ISBN-10: | 186126822X |
| Author: | Laszlo Bekesi, Gyorgy Torok |
| Publisher: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 889g |
| Dimensions: | 297mm x 210mm |
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About The Author
Laszlo Bekesi
LASZLO BEKESI is a Hungarian economist and sociologist. Now a lecturer in geopolitics at Budapest Corvinus University, he wrote his PhD thesis on the cycles of military symbolism in the former Eastern Bloc countries. For many years he has collected Soviet militaria and related documents and photographs. He is the author of two previous titles from Crowood Press: Soviet Uniforms & Militaria 1917-1991 in Colour Photographs (2000), and KGB & Soviet Security Uniforms & Militaria 1917-1991 in Colour Photographs (2002).
GYORGY TOROK has been restoring and using old cameras for more than ten years, and his interest has recently turned to large format cameras. He recently opened a school of photography teaching the theory and practice of conventional and modern fine art and commercial photography; he has also published many articles in photographic art, telecommunications and other magazines.
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