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German Tank Destroyers, - Photo Album by Pierre Tiquet
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German Tank Destroyers, - Photo Album by Pierre Tiquet
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German Tank Destroyers,
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paddy
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I feel quite strongly about this.
the other day on TV we had a documentary on the Battle of Brittan that included well used camera gun film of a late model FW190 pilot exiting his stricken machine. spitfires that were in fact P40's and so on. Much like the Lancaster documentary we had with occasional B17 formations interspersed .This is fine, its entertainment, it creates the atmosphere and most people wouldn't notice.,
Most of us will only ever buy one of these type of books on a subject and that will be our point of reference and its reasonable to expect a reference book to be accurate. Sometimes no information is better than the wrong information.
I move mostly in the motorcycle world and there are dozens of these books out there written by "authorities" working well outside their knowledge base.
the other day on TV we had a documentary on the Battle of Brittan that included well used camera gun film of a late model FW190 pilot exiting his stricken machine. spitfires that were in fact P40's and so on. Much like the Lancaster documentary we had with occasional B17 formations interspersed .This is fine, its entertainment, it creates the atmosphere and most people wouldn't notice.,
Most of us will only ever buy one of these type of books on a subject and that will be our point of reference and its reasonable to expect a reference book to be accurate. Sometimes no information is better than the wrong information.
I move mostly in the motorcycle world and there are dozens of these books out there written by "authorities" working well outside their knowledge base.
Agreed. Pierre Tiquot's books on unit histories is one thing but this book is to be a reference for the German Tank Destroyers. While their use is covered well, and the veteran interviews appreciated, the focus of this title (Illustrated) are the photographs. At £35 ($39.95 USD), it is not the most affordable. For the casual reader or modeler wanting to depict a particular vehicle, it is not worth it since the photographs are too small to glean details and the identification mistakes a problem.
Regards,
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