MILITARY UNIFORMS IN EUROPE 1900 - 2000 Volume One
This book (Volume One) gives an historical overview of 36 countries whose armed forces served in Europe 1900-2000, together with uniform descriptions. Includes 200 full colour paintings of the regular armies, marines, airforce and para-military troops engaged in land exercises, operations and warfare in Europe, including non-European troops serving in Europe. Each entry is accompanied by a history and description of the uniforms illustrated. The author and illustrator Ron Kidd, has been interested in both police and military history, uniforms and insignia since he was a school boy in the 1950's. He has visited over 300 police and military museums world-wide, and has written and illustrated a number of magazine articles on both police and military history and uniforms. He is a member of both the Military Heraldry Society and the Military Historical Society. It is anticipated that Volume Two will be published in 2013.
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adopted Allied arm-of-service colour Artillery badge bars basic rank insignia battledress belt black leather blue braid breeches Brigade British brown leather buttons Canadian cartridge pouches chevrons cloth cockade collar patches Company Officer Corps cuffs dark-blue dark-green diagonal Division fall collar feldgrau field cap Field Officer field uniform five-pointed forces France French front German gold chevrons gold lace green grey grey-green Guards Gurkha haversack indicating the rank Infantry Regiment issued kepi khaki khaki uniform lace chevron lace stripes laced ankle boots Lance-Corporal Lee-Enfield left sleeve Legion light-blue metallic lace narrow gold NCO's Norway Norwegian overcoat pattern pockets Polish puttees Red Army red piping regimental number Regt rifle Royal Russian Scarlet Senior-Private Serbia Sergeant Sergeant-Major shoulder straps silver stars six-pointed stars Soviet Soviet Union Spanish Spanish Foreign Legion steel helmet style Swedish SWLA'CA'R three gold troops trousers tunic uniform was introduced units upper sleeves Waffen-SS wear wore World worn yellow