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Willie
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Hi all,
Could somebody confirm that the German edition is the German clon of this book -- in German obviously ?
And another stupid question : Does anybody know if the German edition was published in several volumes at the same time ?
There is a so called Die britischen Schlachtschiffe des 2. Weltkrieges Bd. 3, by the same authors and the same publisher, Band.3 meaning volume nr. 3 !!!
Any help on this subject will ber more than welcome.
Very best regards,

Willie.
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Post by Laurence Batchelor »

Willie wrote:Hi all,
Could somebody confirm that the German edition is the German clon of this book -- in German obviously ?
And another stupid question : Does anybody know if the German edition was published in several volumes at the same time ?
There is a so called Die britischen Schlachtschiffe des 2. Weltkrieges Bd. 3, by the same authors and the same publisher, Band.3 meaning volume nr. 3 !!!
Any help on this subject will ber more than welcome.
Very best regards,

Willie.
I know its in German, but I'm not sure about the volumes sorry as I've only seen the same size and shape book as the English Arms & Armous /USA NIP in Geman never seen seperate volumes.
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Post by Dave Martin »

Just a PS,

I cannot agree more about the comments made re: Arms & Armour V.s Navel Institute Press as far as overall quality & reproduction goes.

The A&A editions are far better.

Thankfully, I managed to get the A&A editions of both the Cruisers book and the Battleships book.


Many thanks for the tips guys.

Dave
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Just a quick heads-up for anyone looking for both the cruisers and the battleships books - There's one of each from the same seller on ebay uk right now.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRITISH-BATTLESHI ... dZViewItem

AND

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRITISH-CRUISERS- ... dZViewItem

There's also this one if anyone is interested -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... otohosting

Good hunting.

Dave
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Post by Laurence Batchelor »

That epilson123 eBay seller sells these books often every few months I wonder where he keeps finding em! :heh:
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Post by Willie »

My two volumes of British battleships of WW2 and British cruisers of WW2 by Alan Raven and John Roberts are already at home. I will be studying them for years, but I can already say that I cannot imagine my life without them anymore. They are QUALITY -- written that way, capital letters ...
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Willie.
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Post by Dave Martin »

Just a quick heads-up for anyone still looking for these books. Amazon UK presently have 2 for sale which are priced below �100.

Get em whilst you can!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listin ... 06-7095102
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Re: British Battleships in WW2 by Raven

Post by RNfanDan »

And again a reminder, the German-language edition is still available brand-new for even less, has the same great photographs and drawings.

I just hope a German-language version of British Cruisers is in the works, so I can have both these old pals, together again on my shelf!
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