British Infantry Equipments

Mike Chappell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

48 Seiten

2000 | 2nd Revised edition
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85532-839-6 (ISBN)

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Details the history of British Infantry equipment from the aftermath of the Boer War to the late 20th-century. Mike Chappell describes the ongoing struggle to balance the infantryman's comfort with necessities of self-sufficiency on the battlefield.

Mike Chappell comes from an Aldershot family with British Army connections stretching back several generations. He enlisted as a teenage private in the Royal Hampshire Regiment in 1952. Over the next 22 years of infantry soldiering, many of them spent with the Gloucester Regiment, he held every rank and many regimental appointments up to WO1 and Regimental Sergeant Major. he retired in 1974, as RSM of the 1st Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers), after seeing service in Malaya, Cyprus, Swaziland, Libya, Germany, Ulster and home garrisons. He began painting military subjects in 1968 and since then has gained worldwide popularity as a military illustrator. Mike has also written and illustrated many quality books in the Osprey Military list.

Infantry equipments in the 20th century; 1908 pattern web infantry equipment; 1914 pattern leather infantry equipment; 1937 pattern web equipment; 1939 pattern leather equipment; 1942 battle jerkin; 1944 pattern web equipment; 1958 pattern web equipment; 1990 pattern infantry equipment.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2000
Reihe/Serie	Men-at-Arms ; No. 108
Zusatzinfo	8 colour and 50 b&w illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 255 mm
Gewicht	192 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-85532-839-9 / 1855328399
ISBN-13	978-1-85532-839-6 / 9781855328396
Zustand	Neuware