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Summary: Great book...ah the price
Review: ...While there is not a detailed analysis, the book is all the more readable for it: battalion level expositions of every battle of ww2 would fill a DVD with text probably!. Offers some good philisophical and historical insight, particulalry in the formative years of the Wehrmacht, in particular is pursuit of armored warfare and how this pursuit dovetail with geopolitics, economics and of course, post WW1 anyalsis and revelopment of the Reichwehr and wehrmacht. Good theory too on why hitler stopped the panzers outside of Dunkirk...never read that spin before. In all, not a bad read. A history buff might not find too much in it they don't already know...but for one new to the field...it could be a good intro....just that NASTY price is this issue! ...
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Summary: Not a bad book, but for a big, big price!!!
Review: The publisher makes you wonder why this book is so expensive, and when it arrived my suspicions were answered! First off, the book has no dust cover and contains about 150 black and white photos (no color) with pages not being of very heavy weight and with a only a semigloss finish.
Some (about 20%-30%) of the photos are new but most have been seen before in other publications. The book is only about 8.5 x 11 inches so the size of the photos are not very large. There are numerous diagrams throughout the book. If one is familiar with Fedorowicz books for about the same price this book is much more inferior in quality. This book should retail for about half the price of what is being asked. Am I going to send it back? probably not, but I think you have to be a die hard fan of German Army battle tactics and Units depolyed to really want it. I think had I seen it on the bookshelf in some bookstore I probably would not have bitten. All in all, if you are looking for fresh references of German materiel and uniforms in service you will be disappointed.
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