The World's Great Regiments : The World's Renowned and Legendary Regiments -- Lavishly Illustrated in Color
by Melegari, Vezio; (translated from the Italian by Ronald Strom)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. 9" wide by 12" tall. A beautiful copy. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (22.50). Bright, shiny Jacket has 2 small closed tears, but No chips. No creases. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original fine red linen, lettered in gold on the spine. Sharp corners. Profusely illustrated with 230 prints, photographs, drawings, and paintings of which 160 are in full-color. Has a Catalogue of Uniforms, illustrated in full-color by Carlo Alberto Michelini. Index of Names. Index of Military Units. From the Dust Jacket: "The author begins his account with a discussion of the elite troops of antiquity, continues with their role in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and then studies the outstanding regiments of each country -- not only of France, Italy, Canada, Britain, Germany, Austria, Asia, Africa and the USA, but also of Japan and Turkey, the history of whose armies has never before been comprehensively covered in English.". First American Edition (so stated).. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. Illus. by Michelini, Carlo Alberto . 256pp..
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- Title
- The World's Great Regiments : The World's Renowned and Legendary Regiments -- Lavishly Illustrated in Color
- Author
- Melegari, Vezio; (translated from the Italian by Ronald Strom)
- Illustrator
- Michelini, Carlo Alberto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket.
- Edition
- First American Edition (so stated).
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 256pp.
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