Text by Steven Zaloga, illustrations by Ron Volstad, Osprey Pub. Ltd., London, UK, 1989, 48 pgs, b&w photos and color plates, pb, $9.95. Red Army starts out with a five page summary of World War II on the Eastern Front to set the tone of what follows. Zaloga then provides a broad overview of the organization of the Soviet Army of WWII. More importantly, using 33 previously unpublished (in the West) photos and eight pages of color plates, he examines, in considerable detail, the wide variety of Soviet uniforms and personal equipment used during the war. The well annotated photos were all selected to this end - there's no filler. Two and a half pages of rank and arm ofservice colornotes complement the uniform descriptions. The color plates were very good, detailing 24 troop types, ranging from NKVD to Cossack. This book is an example of what can be accomplished within the Men-at-Arms format. I strongly recommend it to students and uniform buffs of the Soviet forces, as well as modelers and gamers of that army. Reviewing Stand Houston 1/900 Ships Russo-Japanese War GHQ 1/2400 WWII and Napoleonic Ships Panzershiffe 1/2400 Ships Skytrex 1/3000 WWII Ships Elan Enterprises 30mm Willie Dixon 25mm Napoleonic French in Egypt Two Dragons 15mm Sikh and Indian Wars Connoisseur 15mm Napoleonics Two Dragons 15mm Samurai and Vikings RSM 15mm Franco-Prussian Figures GHQ 1/285 WWII Pacific Napoleon's Battles Rules Featherstone's Complete Wargaming Book Fire and Fury ACW Rules Rules for Ancient Miniatures Rules Battles for Empire Napoleonic Rules Supreme Warlord Ancient and Renaissance Campaign Rules A Little More Grape, Capt. Bragg Mexican-American Wargames Rules The Napoleonic Source Book Les Gens Braves Franco-Prussian Wargames Rules Mitrailleuses and Machine Guns Book Prussian Infantry in the War of 1870-71 Soult: Napoleon's Maligned Marshal Book Kriegspiel 1824 Dutch Army of William III Booklets Napoleon's Grand Army 1813 Book GHQ Normandy Terrain Booklet Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright WWII Rules Nam Vietnam Wargame Rules Soldiers of the ECW (1) Infantry The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Booklet GDW's ASW Forms Booklet Ardennes 1944 Remember the Maine, To Hell With Spain Booklet Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. IX No. 5 Back to Courier List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1990 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com