While much has been published on the armed forces of the
USSR during the 1980s, surprisingly
little is available on the forces supplied by the other member nations of the
Warsaw Pact. Rivalling the size of the United States Army, the combined ground
forces of the six non-Soviet Warsaw Pact countries totalled over 775,000 active
troops, with almost two million ground forces reserves. This book examines the
history, organisation and uniforms of the often overlooked DDR, Czechoslovak,
Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian forces at the end of the Cold War.
Contents
Introduction * Organisation of the Warsaw Pact * German Democratic Republic * Czechoslovak Socialist Republic * People's Republic of Poland * People's Republic of Bulgaria * People's Republic of
Hungary * Socialist Republic of Romania * The
Plates