Ed_Haynes

Thanks for showing this one, Chris. This is a lovely crossover group that just OOOZES history. Lovely.

Very very nice. Thanks!

I think opinions have been offered?

I know -- all TOO well -- how things with publishers can go. Await with excitement.

Agreed. This splashes "dirt" on us all.

Difficult. Medals are available, ribbon is available, and the late-Soviet aluminum mounts are available. Use your imagination. If you are happy with the source . . . ???

Hi Dave, You write about research as if it is more than just a cruel fantasy? When I am "lucky" I get "no", most of the time there's no more than a prevailing deafening silence. Sigh . . . Ed

Thanks all!

It surely looks to be VERY recently produced . . .

Actually, I think it has to do with how commonly a language is spoken and read. English is read and spoken as a mother tongue or learned language by some 1.5 billion people worldwide. Like it or not. This compares to perhaps 1.05 billion for Mandarin Chinese, 577 million for Hindi, 500 million for French , 500 million for Spanish, maybe 350 million for Arabic (?), 255 million for Russian, 170 million for German, and 5.7 million for Mongolian. (All figures per Wikipedia, so . . . ?) I once asked Bat why he didn't do a Mongolian version of his book, only one in English. His attitude was simple: It would be available to more people that way. He considered doing Russian and German editions (his other langauges), but felt the limited interest base wouldn't repay the effort. Rana Chhina and I considered doing a parallel Hindi edition of our now-finally-with-the-printer/binder book on post-independence Indian ODM, but realised that anyone with any interest in treading it would prefer to read it happier in English. Like it ot not, English is pretty much "the" global language and the core language of discourse in our international "hobby". I wish we were all more multi-lingual, but this is the shape of reality, I think.

I have just gotten some VERY fake medals and badges for uniforms (which would not, I hope, fool anyone over the age of seven -- I do still need a few others though [Lenin and RB both screwback???]), but I want to drag out the Dremel Tool and scribe "FAKE" on the reverse just to make sure. What would this "FAKE" be in Russian (Cyrilic)? I am sure it lurks someehere here, but . . . .??? Thanks.

Powerful stuff, Johnsy thanks. Much to remember here. More personal sympathy to the Ozzies than the Nazis, though some may differ.

Get the Battushig book, and then wait for the 2nd edition . . . ?!?!? Why waste your time on such lesser sources, if you don't really care?? Herfurth is a SAD joke. UNLESS you demand sources auf Deutsch but why is this so for Mongolian awards ?

Fi aman Allah . . . End of another era.

Oops! Partially done. More cleaning tomorrow.

For those of us who struggle with one major language (English) while embracing others (Russisn and so on), we do appreciate your ongoing collecvtive efforts.

Speechless . . . .

Actually, it doesn't look much like either one of them.

It looks to me like the bichig is just scribble, just as someone might try to replicate Arabic who knew nothing about the language.

Lovely, and generally unappreciated, not being "military". Nice! What is the size?

Nothing official, to be sure. The reverse is dangerously close to copying coinage which is quite naughty in the UK.

Nice!!

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26785 Thanks

If you can put up a scan, I may be able to help. The names aren't that hard to read.

Well, possibly interesting? Who knows? What I get from one translation program is and from another Still not sure I understand the "English" here any better than the Russian.