Warsaw Pact Ground Forces cover

Description

Osprey's study of the ground forces of the Cold War (1946-1991). While much has been published on the armed forces of the USSR during the 1980s, surprisingly little is available on the forces supplied by the other member nations of the Warsaw Pact. Rivalling the size of the United States Army, the combined ground forces of the six non-Soviet Warsaw Pact countries totalled over 775,000 active troops, with almost two million ground forces reserves. This book examines the history, organization and uniforms of the often overlooked DDR, Czechoslovak, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian forces at the end of the Cold War.

Table of Contents

Introduction · Organisation of the Warsaw Pact · German Democratic Republic · Czechoslovak Socialist Republic · People's Republic of Poland · People's Republic of Bulgaria · People's Republic of Hungary · Socialist Republic of Romania · The Plates

Product details

Published Jan 22 1987
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 64
ISBN 9780850457308
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 55 b/w; 10 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Elite
Short code ELI 10
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Gordon L. Rottman

Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, vol…

Illustrator

Ronald Volstad

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

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