Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 (Schiffer Military History) [Hardcover]

Werner Haupt (Author)

Book Description

Series: Schiffer Military History | Publication Date: January 1, 1998

After long years of studying sources and literature, Werner Haupt presents the military history of one of the larger theaters of World War II. The completion of the history of Army Group South is the result of the authors utilization of all available G

Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; First edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764303856
• ISBN-13: 978-0764303852
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Appalling translation of the otherwise good book, March 22, 2000

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Fedorov Maxim (Moscow, Russia [e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 (Schiffer Military History) (Hardcover)

Appalling translation of the otherwise good book. The translation is so awful that the book is nearly unreadable. I don't know why Schiffer employs translators who can barely write in proper English, let alone translate from the German. Don't waste your money.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mistakes abound, June 19, 2000

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This review is from: Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 (Schiffer Military History) (Hardcover)

Lots of what I assume are translational screw-ups. Though it is possible, I can't imagine the author, who was a German Army officer on the East Front, would make the mistakes I saw, such as referring to the "Wiking" SS motorized division as a Panzer division in 1941 or the German "Light" divisions as "rifle" divisions (a designation the Soviets used for their infantry formations)!

Some of the "finer" translational mistakes were: 1) reference to a "Organization for the Dead" which was a semi-literal translation of "Organisation Todt", named, in fact, for a German Minister, Fritz Todt (who is now dead, but wasn't then....(-; )

2) reference to a German recon aircraft, the Feisler Storch as the "nasty stork". Feisler was the manufacturer of the aircraft and though the company may have been nasty, I doubt they'd like to see their creation dubbed the "nasty stork".......

On the, uh, positive side, the various personal accounts are nice, though I've read some in other sources (e.g.,Paul Carrell's "Hitler Moves East"). I haven't seen most of the pictures.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Book Delivers, February 2, 2007

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DrBig (Laguna Niguel, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 (Schiffer Military History) (Hardcover)

If you can't read German, then this series of books is the closest you can come to the vast world of German Divisional literature published in the past 60+ years. While I'm sure there are better translators out there, the book is readable & to criticize is a bit unfair. I wish more books like this would come out, dedicated to specific battles, rather than a whole Army Group.