Название: Uniforms of the Sea Services: A Pictorial History
Автор: Robert H. Rankin
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1962
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 334
Размер: 45,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Although Kipling's storied water carrier had mighty little in the way of a uniform but much in the nature of personal valor and devotion, he was the exception rather than the rule when it comes to esprit de corps. A review of martial history reveals that an ignorant, well-officered mob may be kept going as long as there is any possibility of victory.