THIS BOOK IS THE 2016 EXPANDED EDITION WITH NEW AND ENLARGED PHOTOS (25%). It covers the U.S. history of the U.S. Victory Medal from 1919 to 2005. The book has illustrations covering all 17 different types of the U.S. Victory medal. Original issues, reproductions, foreign imports and fakes of the U.S. Victory medals. I cover and illustrate all 19 Army clasps, all 19 Navy and Marines Corps clasps and at least 40 plus different types of reproduction and fake clasps made both in the United States and overseas. There are over 300 illustrations, with a section covering all original issue, reproduction and fakes medals, from these countries: Brazil, Belgium, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Siam, Romania, UK, South Africa.