Standard Catalog of German Military Vehicles (Standard Catalog Of...) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Doyle
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 269181
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 087349783X
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.747094309044
EAN: 9780873497831
ASIN: 087349783X
Publication Date: March 5, 2005
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Product Description
This is the first-ever collection of images and data on German Military vehicles. Packed with never-before-seen photos and recently-discovered technical data, Standard Catalog of(r) German Military Vehicles delivers comprehensive coverage of the most revered and feared war machines of WWII. Covering everything from the famous Tiger tanks to obscure and peculiar hybrids, motorcycles and tracked vehicles, this all-encompassing reference is a must-have for any military historian, military vehicle enthusiast or military modeler. With historical information behind each of the 200 featured vehicles, as well as specifications for each and more than 1,000 detailed photographs, Standard Catalog of(r) German Military Vehicles is the best, biggest and most complete book on the market! -Covers 200 German military tanks, motorcycles, and tracked vehicles -More than 1,000 detailed photographs -Most comprehensive reference available
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 masterpiece ruined by awful treatment of the pictures July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a fantastic book, what a labour of love by David Doyle. However it's ruined by the terrible treatment of the photographs. Any one who uses a digial camera or has done some scanning will know what I mean. Basically a picture consists of a white point at one end and a black point at the other. Older photos often have no information at the start or end and the black and white point start a little way in. Left like that you get a muddy unclear picture. But if you draw the white and black points into the point at the start of the information then you end up with a clear picture with detail all throug the range. A black and white picture. Any old photo will look twice as good if this is done to it. Clearly no one could be bothered to do that here. Which mean we end up with grey to grey pictures with no white points and no clear black points. So on page 114 we are asked to notice the use of all-steel and rubber-tired return rollars,...well all you can see is a shape of a tank with very little detail. On page 80 we are told to notice the jack at the back of the tank,...I'm sure it's there but I can discern no details on the back at all, just a dark grey back of a tank with faint shadows.
Sadly all the photos are like this, ever stuff from museums is lacking in detail and is just plain muddy looking. What a difference could have been made with just a little more care.
David you book is a classic and is fantastic, but please find a publisher who can take the care to get the photogaphy side right, until then it's like listening to the best group ever through the phone, or looking at a masterpiece painting through a a piece of tracing paper.
 fantastic reference for German military vehicles August 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a must for anyone interested in weaponry of WWII. A great source for the vehicles at the Kabinka Tank Museum outside of Moscow and the Munster Tank Museum in Germany. I was amazed that there was a listing of the 12.8 cm Selbstfahriafeete L/61, of which only two were made, the only one in existence in the Kubinka museum. Thanks to the book I could figure out what was in the museums. Oft times they were not labeled correctly.
I highly recommend this book!
Fantastic May 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has every vehicle the German Army used during the war.
A must for every modeler.Execellent pictures!!!
Exhaustive Coverage of Everything they Made March 7, 2005
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
I've always wondered about the heavy German use of motorcycles with side cars. And I've been fascinated with the German use of the half track configuration.
This book answered all of my questions. The German half tracks, which came in a wide range of sizes had much better tracks than did the American M2/M3 (It was said that the American machines had rubber bands for tracks), but the German units were not four wheel drive. The little motorcycle looking halftrack was not a tracked motorcycle, but a small prime mover used to do things like haul aircraft around the field. And I've decided that what I really want is a Volkswagon Schwimmwagon, the four wheel drive amphibious vehicle (You can see of these at the Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles just off I-80 at Lexington, Nebraska.)
This book has more photographos of German military vehicles than I would have thought existed. Of course it covers all their tanks, but you find these in lots of books. Here are the rest of the vehicles - trucks, motorcycles, prime movers, everything that the Germans produced during World War II.
If these kinds of vehicles are your thing, this is a book you can't do without.
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