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I have browsed the book a bit and it looks extremely well done! As it is a copy of a fellow enthusiast I have not read it in detail but the first impressions are most promising. As I have mentionedbefore, I simply love the new JJF layout, i.e. new, smaller font that is very easy to read, very econom...

Well, I have now taken a first look at the book. I have not read the text in detail, but it looks quite well done. Production wise, the book is a bag a contradictions. First, I like the overall layout very much plus the very readable font is small enough for me and the is no wasted space. Paper is d...

This is Heimdal's latest production : a 496 page book on the Tigers of Das Reich and of s.SS-Pz.Abt.102/502. It is the same subject as Schneider's but a lot better, more accurate, more documented : there are hundreds (!) of previously unpublished photos and countless accounts by former members of t...

I´d ignore whatever Robert Jackson says. He seems to be one of those authors who write on everything and everything they write is very shallow. I took a look at the specific book of his and it seemed very, very shallow and basically useless.

Additional comments most welcome since Stackpole has/is about to release a cheap paperback reprint of the book.

Is it in Italian only or bilingual?

And as for the English edition, apparently the publisher aimed the book for half blind readers for the font is bloody large:(

Rumour has it that the book was originally ghostwritten, a practice I really hate.

What is new in the paperback edition compared to the first edition?

Any update on Chris´s book?

Anyone seen it?

That´s not the point. The point is the relation of forces to frontal width and to enemy forces. I take Ahto´s analysis over one by a Roosevelt-Churchill fan club member any time. As Colonel Ahto wrote: What do you call it when somebody repeats 60 years old propaganda as facts?

When reading amazon.co.uk´s reviews on the above mentioned "book", one is left with impression that even supposedly specialist reviewers like a "Simon Trew" completely miss the main art of war lesson of the Normandy Campaign: that completely overwhelmed Germans managed to keep th...

Joachim, isn´t Musial still alive or why are you using an absolute like "were never translated"?

The book I refer to has not been delayed. See e.g. Stone´s site or www.aberdeenbookstore.com/whatsnew.htm In fact, it has been available for several days now.