Much depends on how one views books: purely as means to and end or an end in itself. To me it is the latter, hence I use mylar jackets for all dustjackets, I never write anything on them and store and read the carefully them to maximize their life.
Aargh! I greatly dislike any markings on books. Especially when spotted in a library book. Once I loaned a book to a fellow enthusiast and he added a pencil marking on a page and I was pretty close in demanding him to buy me a new copy.
Perhaps an errata sheet would be a convenient way to address those lesser errors? Luckily there are so many proper books available that I will never have to sink so low as to view then on the abomination called e-book.
It is easy to say "learn German/French" when they might be one's first foreign languages. E.g. in my case they would be 3rd and 4th foreign languages. I think it would be equal to tell a PacWar enthusiast to "learn Japanese" or Eastern Front enthusiast "learn Russian". One rarely encounters those ex...
Yes, I noted the same. Sometimes one got the feel that like two books have been combined, a well-designed text part and extremely poorly done illustrative part. E.g. those tables should have been redesigned, now they look like hasty additions.
Not directly related to the Kursk topic but mr. Trang's comments on the fact that there are capable authors outside the English language circle is on the point indeed. I was instantly reminded that when a British publisher launched a series that was supposed to cover the entire history of aviation (...
It should be added that there will be, probably this year, the magnum Kursk book from the pen of Chris Lawrence of the Dupuy Institute. I can't disclose details yet (as I don't know them all) but it will be a very detailed one and Lawrence has been able to use some Russian primary documents as well ...
Interesting! I just wonder if the editors' overall attitude is reflected in the introduction as while they seem to hail what they call "popular resistance" they fail to mention that such popular resistance was illegal, i.e. if you wish to enjoy the privilieges of a civilian in war, you must behave l...