NATO Armies 1949–87 cover
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The defeat of Hitler on 8 May 1945 left Western Europe militarily vulnerable and economically exhausted. The Soviet Union, however, had since 1940 annexed 180,000 square miles of Eastern Europe, occupied a further 390,000 square miles, and now seemed poised to advance still further westwards with its six-million strong forces. The increasing Soviet threat brought forth demands for a permanent Western Military alliance, and on 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington DC. This book explores the history, organization and uniforms of NATO armies - excluding the United States and Great Britain - as they were in the late 1980s.

Table of Contents

The Nato Alliance · Norway · Denmark · Canada · Belgium · Netherlands · France · Luxembourg · Germany · Italy · Greece · Spain · Portugal · Iceland · The Plates

Product details

Published 25 Feb 1987
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 64
ISBN 9780850458220
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 55 b/w; 10 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Elite
Short code ELI 16
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Nigel Thomas

NIGEL THOMAS PhD is an accomplished linguist and m…

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Ronald Volstad

RONALD B.VOLSTAD was born in 1949 in Alberta, Cana…

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