Armies of the Mexican Revolution
Uniforms, Equipment & Weapons of the Armed Forces in Mexico 1910-20
Mike Blake
ISBN: 978-1-85818-771-6
232 pages
297mm x 210mm
Hardback
Well illustrated
£39.95 GBP
The Mexican Revolution – ten years of strife that nearly tore a country apart.
The years of fratricidal warfare described as the Mexican Revolution are not very well known outside of Mexico. The conflict deserves to be better known, as it can arguably be called one of the first modern wars; certainly, it heralded many of the major changes in warfare in the First World War.
Appearing for the first time were motorcycles, motor trucks, armored cars and the new air power – all made their first tentative appearances. The machinegun played a significant role for the first time in non-colonial warfare, heralding how it would come to dominate future battlefields. Alongside these, wired and wireless communications, barbed wire, searchlights, and trenches established their place on the battlefield in the Mexican Revolution.
This book gathers together information from disparate sources, and focuses on the fighting men, and women, what they wore, and what they fought with. It describes and illustrates the armed forces, their organization, uniforms, clothing, equipment and weapons to provide a guidebook to historians and wargamers seeking to know more these aspects of the conflict.
The text is supported by full-page color plates by Bruno Mugnai and the author, providing extensive coverage of the appearance of the protagonists and their weapons. Alongside these are photographs from the Elmer Powell Mexican Revolution Collection, DeGolyer Library, and SMU – many unique, and all published here for the first time.
A guide to wargaming the Mexican Revolution is in preparation as a companion volume to this one.
