The Russian Civil War (1) : The Red Army (Men at Arms Series, 293)

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Summary: Great plates good introduction
Review: The art in this ospery edition is really quite good. There is a great amount of attention paied to uniform details. The birsk 48 page read provided some useful insight into the structure of the White Army of the Russian Civil War such as there close collaboration with Kuban and Don Cossacks also the multi-layered nature of the anti-Bolshevik movement as a whole from the right wing monarchists to the arachist partisans that fought red and white. i really loved the plates on the black uniformed officers units. Buy it!!!

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Summary: Good place to get started
Review: The RED ARMY is a good hastely review of the RCW from the Red Army view. I recommend it to all. However, some of the information is incorrect and OOB chart are wrong. The book is basically an extremely edited version of the Soviet encyclopedia "Civil War and Military Intervention in the SSSR". Many of the entries in Red Army are from the encyc. word for word and sometimes the best info is left out or conclusions incorrect. Granted the Osprey format does not have a lot of room for text. Its companion the White Army is more detailed where the Red Army is terrible general in detail. If you could see the source for the info you would understand what has been left out. I liked the book, but was left with more questions than when I started.

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Summary: Good place to get started
Review: The RED ARMY is a good hastely review of the RCW from the Red Army view. I recommend it to all. However, some of the information is incorrect and OOB chart are wrong. The book is basically an extremely edited version of the Soviet encyclopedia "Civil War and Military Intervention in the SSSR". Many of the entries in Red Army are from the encyc. word for word and sometimes the best info is left out or conclusions incorrect. Granted the Osprey format does not have a lot of room for text. Its companion the White Army is more detailed where the Red Army is terrible general in detail. If you could see the source for the info you would understand what has been left out. I liked the book, but was left with more questions than when I started.

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Summary: Top-notch!
Review: This book is an excellent reference for anyone interested in the Russian Civil War (just as its companion book on the Red Army is). I loved it for a wealth of information on the counter-revolutionary forces, as well as its beautiful illustrations.

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Summary: Excellent for Modellers and Wargamers!
Review: This is a rather nice volume (typical of most Osprey's Men-at-Arms series) that has one thing that stands out: the wonderfull colour plated illustrated by Russian artist Andrei Karachtchouk.The figures in his paintings---be they Russian Volunteer Officers, Former-Czarist guards, Ukranian nationalists, Islamic Basmachi rebels---are all full of character! This book will no doubt serve as a uniform guide to many modellers and wargamers out there!
The book itself is a rather "dry" read, compromising mainly of army lists for the different White Armies in the different fronts of the war in Russia; but nevertheless, the photographs and colour plates accompanying the text is outstanding!
Highly recommended for the modeller and wargamer, although others should look for a more detailed "in depth" book on the campaigns and overall history of the Russian Civil War.