Brassey’s History of Uniforms: Mexican‐American War 1846‐48

The firm of Brassey’s has long been known for books on the technical aspects of war, but has only recently ventured into the field of historical uniforms. Books on this subject are often characterized by illustrations which obviously display the fruits of much research, but without specifying exactly which sources have been used. Brassey’s History of Uniforms, however, provides the sort of footnotes which might be expected in a scholarly work, and this justifies the publishers’ decision to market it as a reference series.

This latest volume concerns a war not very well known in this country, but of...