Название: The Uniforms of the World's Great Armies: 1700 to the Present
Автор: I. T. Schick, Wilhelm von Halem
Издательство: Gallery Books
Год: 1984
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 264
Размер: 128,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
The advantages of a standardized uniform are perhaps very obvious to us in the twentieth century - easy identification of friend or foe and better discipline, to name but two - but the idea of 'uniform' only appeared with the standing army of the late seventeenth century, and the word 'uniform' did not reach Germany from France until the eighteenth century.