KAWALERYJSKIE SZASZKI RADZIECKIE W WOJSKU POLSKIM (SOVIET CAVALRY "SHASHKA" SABERS IN POLISH ARMY)

2nd enlarged edition.Polish text, Pb, laminated, new copy, 124pp. Well illustrated color and b/w drawings and photographs throughout). Incl.: the origin of shashkas in the Imperial Russian Army; Red Army regulation shashka sabers in 1917-1927: M1927 Cavalry Officer shashka, M1927 Cavalrymen and NCO shashka, modifications made in 1941-1942, M1891 and M1891/30 bayonets for Mosin-Nagant rifle, shashas equipped with M1891 bayonets for Mosin-Nagant rifle, sword knots, sword belts, edged weapons production in the Zlatoust armory after 1918; Shashka sabers of the Polish Cavalry during WWII and after 1945: creation of the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade in 1944 - a brief history, the battle of Schoenfeld (March 1, 1945): the last mounted charge in the history of the Polish cavalry, lancers personal weapons and equipment, creation of the 1st Warsaw Cavalry Division; shashka belonging to commanding general of the 1st Warsaw Cavalry Division Ksawery Floryanowicz, other units and detachments of the Polish Cavalry: officers candidates' and NCO' schools, mounted reconnaissance platoons, color parties, Presidential lifeguard cavalry squadron; Internal Security Corps cavalry squadron; cavalry headdress and headdress eagle badges; cavalry shashkas in Polish collections: M1943 eagle badge attached to shashas pommels, shashkas with nickel-plated parts of grips and scabbards, shashka with Soviet star removed from a pommel, shashka with M1927 Soviet-era pommel, shashka with Empire-era pommel; shashka of the Russian SS and Wehrmacht units; export variants of the Soviet M1927 shashka. Massive reference