Customer Reviews

Military Harley-Davidson

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I was disappointed after waiting a long time to get this book. A good portion of the data is incorrect and a number of the pictures are mis-identifed or just plane wrong. Many of the photos look to have been digitized and have a zig zig quality on the details. I would like to see better in a $40 book. The author used a lot of photos of civilian machines for some reason and they fail to represent the military application and for the most part offers nothing much new on this subject.

All is not lost however...on the plus side there are some good quality photos and a good number I have never seen anywhere before like a very rare version of the XA model with a Vard Hydraulic front end...perhaps only one of one. Also some interesting photos from WWI and some other that could be of some value to the restorer

Over all I don't think it's worth the cover price, but if it hits the bargan rack for less than $10 you might want to pick one up.

Jim Hansen

It is obvious that Mr. Ware has no knowledge of military machines and is gleaning his information from previously published information. His production figures of 90,000 WWII machines is a complete fabrication. His assertions that all WLA Harley-Davidson's had frame numbers is ludicrous. It would seem that his source of information was obtained from listening to old wives tales and faulty factory information. I would be willing to bet money he never did any research on this subject at The National Archives.
The bottom line is that there is a great book on the Military Harley-Davidson's, but this is not it.