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I purchased my copy on eBay. It was posted from Paris and arrived expeditiously in Canada. It is a magnificent heavily-illustrated reference work with many color plates of the various medals and badges, etc. I recommend it enthusiastically and without any reservations!!

Here's a picture of the medal group of General Digby Willoughby, a British soldier-of-fortune who commanded the Madagascan Army against the French in the 1880's. Willoughby subsequently signed the Peace Treaty between the Madagascan and French Governments and was awarded the Order of Merit of Radama II (Officer's Class in gilt) and the French Legion of Honour in recognition of his services. I acquired Willoughby's medals in 1980 and I still have them. I published an article on this remarkable gentleman in a 1982 issue of the Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society (UK).