Germany and the Second World War (7 volumes)

Hello everybody,

Can anyone here say anything about this massive collection?



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Germany-Second-World-War-Aggression/dp/0198738331/ref=sr_1_138?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432237670&sr=1-138&keywords=germany


Cheers

 

It is the best (and only good) collection about WWII.(limited to the world in Europe)

 

And it's 10 volumes not 7. About £500 the lot. Ouch!!!

 

I think i'll maybe buy the eastern front volume to get a feel of the series, and then we'll see how it goes from there,
A pity amazon doesn't have the look inside option for these books, it would be very helpfull.

 

This is intriguing, but I know myself well enough that if I buy one I will not stop there, and one can get a lot of interesting reads for 500 pounds! So I-m waiting for some more feedback.

 

I used some of it for a book I was writing. It's very much like an official history, highly professional and thoroughly annotated. If you are looking for excitement you won't get it from these volumes, but if you want a detached and analytical history of all aspects of Germany's war effort you will get it. The authors certainly do not share the belief that the German way of war was intrinsically superior, and they don't think that everything would have been fine if Hitler had let the generals alone. This set is well worth having for any serious student of the war, whether from the German perspective or not.

 

In the meantime, in amazon-land, looking at the titles that were already released, its prices are already in the £100+
C'mon give us a break!!!!!

 

This series of books is the closest there is to a German 'Official History'. It seems that just about any serious WWII historian cites the series in glowing terms ( I just opened my copy of Weinberg's 'A World At Arms' and there it is... )

They have apparently been researched and written with great care and have only gradually been published in English at a high price from Oxford University Press. And no, I don't have them on my shelves...... :eh:

 

Amazon US has them at around $70 for the paperback version and mentions that you can preorder the first volume in July so apparently they are being reprinted. Hopefully they'll come out in electronic format as well.

 

For those who can read German : the German version is available for 50 euro,which is very cheap .