Panzers in the Sand vol. 1/Berndt Hartmann

[Rotanhäntäpistin]

Anyone read this new one from Stackpole?

[Richard Hargreaves]

Read the German edition. It's excellent.

[Panzermarsch]

Read the German edition. It's excellent.

The English editions are excellent as well, got them through Amazon and was not disappointed

[Vor]

I jumped ahead to Libya, and can say that I would be quite lost if I hadn't read "Rommel's War in Africa" by Heckmann first. Nice details in the PR5 book, but Heckmann really allowed me to appreciate those details better (wrt the drive to & battle for Tobruk as an example).

[michael kenny]

The photo reproduction in Volume 1 is terrible.
Even studio shots of famous Generals are badly rendered.

[Vor]

yeah, pics are bad...but for a translated book, the price is right

[Richard Hargreaves]

yeah, pics are bad...but for a translated book, the price is right

At a guess the picture repro's bad because it is in the original - it's slightly better than a photocopy.

[Rotanhäntäpistin]

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.