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Panzerwrecks 11 - Normandy 2

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  • Author William Aurbach and Lee Archer
  • Editor William Aurbach and Lee Archer
  • Format Landscape style section sewn bound
  • Publication year 2010
  • ISBN 978-098418203-9
  • Price 29.95 USD
 

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Panzer Wrecks have several issues dedicated to a particular theater. This is their 11th book and it is part two covering the Normandy Area of Operations. Bill Auerbach and Lee Archer have done a superb job of finding interesting photos illustrating German Panzers in a natural late war state. The previous issues are shown on the back cover.
 
The style begun with Panzer Wrecks 1 has been maintained. It is in a landscape format with perfect binding and high quality gloss soft covers. The book measures 8.125 inches tall by 11 inches wide and has 96 pages within. A great thing about the binding is the added creases to allow the covers to open further without stressing the binding. This issue’s covers incorporate fold outs allowing for clear panoramic views.
The front inner cover has a table of contents, acknowledgments, and a brief introduction by Mr. Auerbach. Much of the content is grouped into features and the outside edges of the pages repeat the feature title in a vertical format. This is a quick and easy to use design for realizing the photo’s location. The 96 pages are on a very good quality semi-matte paper which can reproduce details in a photo quite well. Photos are large, with many one to a page, and some consist of a series (whether by photographers or from a film) and help illustrate vehicles from different views and/or different lighting conditions.
There are 130 photos excluding the outer cover photos which are repeated within. I learned long ago to ignore the conservative photo count (128 in this case) shown on the rear page blurb! The front cover photo appears on page 41. On the rear page, it is the same photo which appears on page 75.
The features mentioned in the table of contents include:
  1. Wrecks at Trévières. page 2
  2. Unrecovered Bergepanther. page 44
  3. Scrapyard Panzers. page 62
  4. Normandy - Puma Country. page 75
The book begins with the front inner fold out and continues until page 29 displaying photos several Panzer IV tanks, Sd.Kfz. 251 halftrack, 4.7cm PaK(t) auf Panzerkampfwagen 35R(f) ohne Turm, StuG III Ausf. G, Selbstfahrlafette (Sd.Kfz.10/4) für 2cm FlaK 38, and a Panzerjäger 38(t) mit 7.5cm PaK 40/3 Ausf. M (Sd.Kfz.138). The destruction of the Panzer IV tanks is amazing to see and the remnants of the other wrecks are intriguing.
The next fourteen pages have twenty three photos which show more Panzer IV tanks, Sd.Kfz. 251 halftracks, AtuG III Ausf. G, a series of photos on a Tiger II with Porsche designed Tiger turret, and another series of the recover of a Tiger I with an inset photo of the shipping markings.
The next feature follows with eight pages offering ten photos of the un-recovered Bergepanther. Interior details are covered and nice close-ups of the winch are shown. Seven of these are full page photos showing the tank.
The following ten pages have full page photos of various vehicles including two Marder 38T, two gutted Panzerkampfwagen 38 für 2cm FlaK 38 (Sd.Kfz.140), a Panzerjäger LrS für 7.5cm PaK 40/1 (MarderI), Wespe, Grille, Pz.Beob.Wg.III, two Zugkraftwagen (28t) (Sd.Kfz.9), and a Pz.Kpfw.II.
Eight pages with eight photos illustrate the final resting place of several vehicles in the Scrapyard Panzers feature. One photo got my attention; the Sd.Kfz.223. Other vehicles covered, my listi s nowhere complete, include Goliath, Sd.kfz. 10/5, Marder III, Pz.Kpfw. IV, Beetle, Achilles, and others.
Five full page photos of Panthers follow bringing the reader to the last feature.
The last feature has ten pages, with 18 photographs, of different destroyed Sd.Kfz. 234/2 found at Normandy. Many details are shown here including some peeks into the turret interior and engine bay.
The next twelve pages, not including the inner rear cover, offer a variety of vehicles from the Panzerspähwagen P-204 (f), Unic Kegresse with 2cm FlaK 38, Sd.Kfz. 10/5, Sd.Kfz. 7/2, Škoda Radschlepper Type 175L, Panzerwerfer 42, Panther (with clos-up details), the inner rear fold out has a magnificent panoramic view and the inner rear cover a late Sd.Kfz. 231 or 232.
My sincerest thanks go to William Auerbach for providing this advanced copy for this review. Buy directly from Panzerwrecks by visiting Panzer Wrecks.
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