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Inside the blue berets: a combat history of Soviet and Russian airborne forces 1930 - 1995

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Novato, Calif: Presidio, 1995Description: 339pISBN:
  • 0891413995 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: The aim of this book is to fill the gap in the history of elite forces, this book also surveys the evolution of other Russian special forces to help place the airborne forces in their proper context. It looks at the Russian experience with airmobile forces from their beginnings in the 1920s and 1930s to today's Russian mobile force. The origins of the Russian shock troops. It provides an exciting description of the harrowing Russian airborne assaults of World War II and the combat uses of the troops in the cold war years as an important new role as imperial storm troopers. The infantry that enforced Soviet power.
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The aim of this book is to fill the gap in the history of elite forces, this book also surveys the evolution of other Russian special forces to help place the airborne forces in their proper context. It looks at the Russian experience with airmobile forces from their beginnings in the 1920s and 1930s to today's Russian mobile force. The origins of the Russian shock troops. It provides an exciting description of the harrowing Russian airborne assaults of World War II and the combat uses of the troops in the cold war years as an important new role as imperial storm troopers. The infantry that enforced Soviet power.

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