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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-101841763039
ISBN-139781841763033
eBay Product ID (ePID)2268550
Product Key Features
Book TitleRussian Army 1914-18
Number of Pages48 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicRussia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / World War I
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes, Karachtchouk, Andrei
GenreHistory
AuthorNik Cornish
Book SeriesMen-At-Arms Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight5.3 Oz
Item Length9.7 in
Item Width7.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"... a wealth of information essential to anyone interested in the RCW from Murmansk to the Ukraine and Crimea to Siberia and the Far East... What is most striking about [this book] is the evolution of the skill of the artist Andrei Karachtchouk... InThe Russian Army,he has really outdone himself... an essential part of anyone's Russian Civil War library." -HMG Reviewing Stand, "... a wealth of information essential to anyone interested in the RCW from Murmansk to the Ukraine and Crimea to Siberia and the Far East... What is most striking about [this book] is the evolution of the skill of the artist Andrei Karachtchouk... In The Russian Army, he has really outdone himself... an essential part of anyone's Russian Civil War library." - HMG Reviewing Stand
Series Volume Number364
Dewey Decimal355.00947/09041
Table Of ContentIntroduction: the Russian Army and society · The 'Great Programme': military and industrial reforms in 1914 · The strategic situation · Organisation of the armed forces · Chronology of campaigns · Uniforms: Parade & service dress, Guards, line, Cossacks, specialist troops and services · Non-Russian formations · Russian elite units · Weapons · Tactics · Colour plates commentary
SynopsisOften overshadowed by the drama of its catastrophic collapse in the November 1917 Revolution, the Imperial Russian Army's record in 1914-16 included some notable victories. Its human qualities of patriotism and endurance were remarkable, and in 1916 the 'Brusilov Offensive' on the South-Western Front outdistanced anything that was being achieved in France. The variety and romance of its uniforms - infantry and cavalry, Guards and Line, Cossacks, armour and Air Service crewmen, even a priest - are splendidly captured here by Russia's leading military artist; and Nik Cornish's expert text is supported by tables of insignia and many rare photographs.
