Covers Nazi awards comprehensively and chronologically; including: imperial and state awards; veteran and Freikorps awards; military decorations; ribbons; miniatures; medals; citations; makers' marks; how awards were won; where to obtain Third Reich decorations; and a price guide.
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Review
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. BrilliantBy Tko2Thanks a million.... I loved the story and the illustrations were amazing. I had no idea. The world now seems to make more sense...2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Fun to read; but not serious history.By Richard S. HoffmanI read the U.S. edition of this book. While it is fun to read; it is poorly sourced; and I use it in my history classes when I want to give an example of an unreliable source. For example; one of the sources upon which Broome bases his conclusions is the letter from Johan Day; which is not referenced in his bibliography.Broome's arguments may be accurate; but they are based on conjecture; and I have yet to find a modern historian of note who takes them seriously. Besides; no serious historian would ever name his book "The True Story of..." anything!7 of 9 people found the following review helpful. what's in a name?By Rebecca BrownTERRA INCOGNITA is the telling of history from another point of view; connecting the dots between voyages; ships; cargoes paymasters.If you like to know the who; why; when how of historical things events; then TERRA INCOGNITA will thrill you. Into this little book is packed a ton of trivia that is both fascinating extra-ordinary; about the exploration of the world from the "Twelve Wooden Plates" upon which a new map was secured for printing what Amerigo Vespucci had to do with them; to "The Commercial Revolution" in which the Black Plague had people sailing away in fleets to the farthest reaches of the globe; to "A Young Genoan Arrives in Bristol" being excerpts from journals of the icon of exploration to "Bristol Ships in Lisbon and Huelva" where Christopher Columbus had been dwelling; to "Shipshape and Bristol Fashion" wherein a medieval proverb comes to life so on into the stuff of legends; all the facts the fictions.Very well done...a superb history of mapmakers voyagers...certainly for every history buff; anyone interested in writing about merchant seamen; explorers maps.
