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Title: Pretty pictures but not much more
Review: I tried to find this book for years to complete my World War I uniforms source collection. It really wasn't worth the effort. The color illustrations are nice looking. But the supporting text bears almost no relevance to the illustrations. There's no description of the materials or construction of the uniforms, no real reference to the equipment worn, and no description of what uniforms were worn by whom or when. Worse than that, there's huge gaps in the uniforms illustrated. For example, there's not a single illustration of a German infantry private in 1914, or any illustrations at all of Turkish uniforms.There are almost no books out there providing anything more than cursory information about World War I unifoms. Sadly, this book doesn't really do anything to fill this gap.
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