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  • Fighting Men of World War II: Allied Forces: Uniforms, Equipment & Weapons

    Fighting Men of World War II: Allied Forces by Miller, David; Smith, Graham;

    Uniforms, Equipment & Weapons

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Skyhorse
    • Date of Publication 1 January 2026
    • Number of Volumes Trade Paperback

    • ISBN 9781510756472
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages384 pages
    • Size 297x224x20 mm
    • Weight 1544 g
    • Language English
    • 794

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    Long description:

    Fighting Men of World War II: Allied Forces is the second part of a two-volume set (Axis Forces is also available) which sets out to examine in detail the weapons and equipment of the average soldier of the United States, Great Britain and its Dominions and Commonwealth, the Soviet Union, and the other nations like France and Poland who fought on despite being overrun in the early stages of the conflict.&&&160;

    In these pages we examine a broad range of general equipment that was used every day, including mess tins, water bottles, medical kits, radios, binoculars, goggles, entrenching tools and wire cutters.&&&160;

    We give detailed specifications of weapons such as: pistols and revolvers, rifles, bayonets, fighting knives, hand grenades, flamethrowers, mortars and anti-tank weapons. The clothing sections include headgear, from the M1 helmet system to the Tam o’ Shanter and the Russian pilotka. We examine footwear as diverse as polished officers’ shoes, cavalry boots, paratroopers’ jump boots and felt overboots.&&&160;

    Uniform tunics, shirts, trousers, and greatcoats all receive attention, as do all-weather gear, gloves, ponchos, camouflage smocks and load-carrying vests. Numerous variations are shown, as are rank badges and other insignia.&&&160;

    Personal items too are included. We show cigarettes and lighters, letters and postcards home, magazines, gramophones, identity tags, mending kits and eating utensils.&&&160;

    Almost all of the items shown have not been featured in book form before and have been specially chosen from museums and private collections to form a unique reference source for the general reader, budding collector, military enthusiast, re-enactor, and modeller.&&&160;

    The fighting man is placed within the context of his unit organization, while carefully researched archive photos show him with his weapons and equipment in action.&&&160;

    The text, by seasoned military expert David Miller, is the result of painstaking research, backed up by his own military experience in the British Army, which has given him the necessary credentials to understand what the average fighting man’s needs and day-to-day preoccupations actually were.&&&160;David has been assisted by editor Graham Smith, and the two of them have pulled together all these diverse elements to form one of the most definitive works of its kind.&&&160;

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