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German Army Handbook 1939-1945

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Ah, this book was a big disappointment. I owned Steve Zaloga's Soviet Army Handbook of the same series and I though it to be excelelnt, well researched and detailed. This one is not.
It is very superficial, contains inaccuracies and lacks the organisationsl details needed for any book of this series.
I would not advice anyone to but this book, I will try to sell mine. sorry.

To short in many points.

Mr Lucas should have left to other the review of the small arms and tanks (there is so many anyway).

The Doctrine of the Nazi party is not inlight by a german vision of the "Volks" (people) of the time, but by a analysis of a contemporaty Britannic Vision.

I could sound desapointed or even more betray by the title of this book, because I've read and I owned many military books of the subject (Wehrmacht und Heer und Waffen SS Deutsh Armee)I did'nt expect to see author writing truncated version of Order of Battles that much.

The book is intended to neophyte of the World War II period. Serious reader and poeple seaching for details aspect of the German Army should look somewhere else, like for Order of Battles it would be the much sought-after series of Goerges F. Nafziger, or for Small Arms and Tanks the Arms & Armour series and for Campains the Opsrey Series

Paul Bougault
2Lt/Fus MR21/34thCBG/RCAC

Objective, exhaustably researched and written in a clear and concise style. This ranks as a work compiled by one of the finest historians I've yet read. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this historical period.

E. Schneider, M.D.

This book is incredible. It gives you all the logistical information you can handle. It covers what weapons were produced when, the specs on army equipment, and better yet it includes a great forward by Mr. Ambrose! This book will tell you how many panzers made up a tank batallion in 1939 and 1945. It goes far beyond that in depth. A tremendous resource.

I recommend this book for anyone interested in the breakdown of the Wehrmacht before and during the Second World War.