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Title: Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Fighters 1939-1945 by Walter Schick, Ingolf Meyer ISBN: 1-85780-052-4 Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Got art?
Comment: The strength of any book that seeks to recreate the projected German aircraft of World War II is the quality of its artwork. When well done, either photographed from models or digitally drawn in three dimensions, these planes evoke a sense of what might have been developed had the war continued. Although "Luftwaffe Secret Projects" does have serviceable three-view line drawings and brief descriptions of the aircraft, the illustrations for both volumes are disappointing, and either have a chameleon-like vividness or the silvery artificiality of what would be found on a lunchbox from the Fifties. A comparison with the art found at Luft '46 is a reminder that it can be done better.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great work
Comment: I found this book, and it's two companions, to be very informative, keenly illustrated, loaded with rare photos, and easy to read. It makes a great coffee table book, and I would highly recommend to anyone interested in the WWII Luftwaffe and what might have been... Super job Mr's Schick and Meyer!
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, Not Great
Comment: The research effort into the a/c themselves was extensive, careful, and critical, producing descriptions of, & data on, the a/c themselves that is excellent. Information provided on the revolutionary powerplants and armaments, which made these a/c fighter weapons, is much less detailed; nonexistent in the case of the weapons. By far, the book's greatest flaw is the amatuerish artwork. The colour drawings are on every page, and so poorly done that they detract from the book on every level. The "art" is awful. The cover painting is great, but that's it. Even the line drawings are amatuerish; art exhibits poor execution of perspective, and childlike "pilots" that are embarassing, while the line art is just sloppy. Were it not for the abysmal art, the book would get 4 stars from me. As it is, not worth the money unless you have a use for the technical info, and even then, it costs too much; had the art been better, it would have been worth the price.
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Title: Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Ground Attack & Special Purpose Aircraft by Dieter Herwig, Heinz Rode ISBN: 1857801504 Publisher: Aerofax Midland Pub Ltd Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Jet Planes of the Third Reich, The Secret Projects (Volume 1) by Manfred Griehl, Thomas H. Hitchcock ISBN: 0914144367 Publisher: Monogram Aviation Publishing Pub. Date: 06 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Germany's Secret Weapons in World War II by Roger Ford, Paul Wood ISBN: 0760308470 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Hitler's Miracle Weapons: Secret Nuclear Weapons of the Third Reich and Their Carrier Systems: The Luftwaffe and Kriegs,Arome by Friedrich Georg ISBN: 1874622914 Publisher: Casemate Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Hitler's Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War by Henry Stevens ISBN: 1931882134 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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