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Panzer- A Pictorial Documentation of the German Battle Tanks of World War II

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There are other books on the development of German armor (like Chamberlain and Jentz's Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War 2), but here the photos tell the story. This is a large-format photo book with many pictures filling the page, so details are beautifully rendered. There had to be some limits for reasons of space, so only German and Czech tanks are covered. The myriad self-propelled guns, recovery vehicles, and half tracks used by the Germans are not included. The weak point of the book is the captions. Horst Scheibert actually served in many of the vehicles he depicts, but like many front line troops, he only paid attention to technical differences that actually affected the tanks' fighting abilities. So he is a bit vague as to accurately identifying exact production subtypes. Also, many Bundesarchiv negatives are not catalogued by the geographical origin of the photos, and in many cases he is clearly guessing as to the location and date of the pictures. Still, as long as you are armed with other technical references, this is an excellent addition to your AFV library.

For a book which claims to be a pictoral history, I find it absurd to fault it for having mostly pictures with captions. It is exactly what it claims to be: A pictoral documentation. And fine one it is. A nice addition to any Panzer nut's library.

This book contains some of the best photographs regarding this subject matter. Most of them I have never seen before. However, the photo captions are not very detailed, often being no longer than six words. Several photos do not even have captions. Be wary of the author's designations as well. There is a long-barreled "Pz.Kpfw. IV" on page 166, which is really a Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. E.

This book is great quality. Paper is superb, as impression quality. Printing is first class and bound too. The book contains about 600 photos, most somewhat common but really interesting to have them togueter for the amateur. Maybe it is too generic, but anyway it offers correct captions, a most of all, great value for money.

An Excellent book for model kits builders,but if u want to know more about german tanks, this book talks too little as it meant to be photos album I think and therefore only has captions.But the quality and number of photos is really impressive.