Dress Daggers of the German Navy - Volume 3 hat The WD & HO Wills

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Dress Daggers of the German Navy - Volume 3 hat The WD & HO WillsThere are more than 700 professional photographs with over 100 printed in full colour. The text follows the development of the Naval Dress Dirk after it was first introduced by Prussia as an official pattern in 1848. The book details the wearing tradition of the dirk as it continued to be carried by the German Navy for the next century, finally ending with the defeat of the Kriegsmarine in World War II. All periods are supplemented with rare in wear