Soviet Military Badges: A History and Collector's Guide Hollingdale Richard
Soviet Military Badges: A History and Collector's Guide Hollingdale Richard At its height in the late twentieth-century, the Soviet Armed Forces boasted one of the world's largest armies. Soviet…
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Soviet Military Badges: A History and Collector's Guide Hollingdale Richard
At its height in the late twentieth-century, the Soviet Armed Forces boasted one of the world's largest armies. Soviet Military Badges: A History and Collector's Guide, therefore, offers the reader a timely tour of a little-known subject within the English language. Yet, in the twenty-five years that have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union, much of its material culture has fast disappeared.
Captured in full colour and accompanied by a wealth of archive photographs, this book examines such categories as sports badges, proficiency clasps, and awards for excellence from the start of the Cold War in 1949 through to the end of the USSR in 1991. In its pages are detailed the badges awarded to the officers and men of the Soviet Army, Navy, Air Force and Frontier Guards found during the Cold War era. Each section is observed in detail using the obverse and reverse views in order to