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Heer Im Focus Edition No.1

Axel Urbanke (editor)

Luftfahrtverlag START 2023

Reviewed by Graham Carter

Summary

Title:	Heer Im Focus Edition No. 1 Axel Urbanke (editor) Luftfahrtverlag START 2023
ISBN:	978-3-941437-56-2
Media and Contents:	Soft Cover; 72 glossy pages.
Price:	Euro 28.80 plus shipping available online from Luftfahrtverlag START
Review Type:	First Read
Advantages:	A fascinating variety of articles and photo albums in colour and B&W with very useful captions and maps in both German and English, large format images that are well-printed on the glossy paper.
Disadvantages:	None noted.
Recommendation:	Such an interesting variety of photos and articles that will be useful to both the modeller and the historian. Recommended to those of you with an interest in the German army in WWII.

FirstRead

Following the other series of ‘Im Focus’ bookazines on Luftwaffe and U-boat items, this is the first volume covering a variety of WWII German army-themed topics.

A stiff card cover encloses 72 glossy A4 pages of photos and stories in German and English covering a lot of topics, too numerous to list in full but including specific vehicles, a detailed photo coverage of the campaign of the 18th Panzer Division in the east ( which includes a mass of maps and photos of Panzer IIIs and IVs fording a river as well as in-action shots, many in colour), a fascinating article of the little-covered zebra-striped camouflage schemes on vehicles, AFVs and soft-skins, in the pine forests of the eastern and Scandinavian campaigns, helmet camouflage, the use of knocked-out T-34s as signposts, a decorated King Tiger, as well as others of interest.

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The use of personal and in many cases, archived images, many in colour, make this a fascinating introduction to the series. I found much to catch my eye, and I am not that much of an army fan. The captions are detailed and very clear in both languages and the maps are well drawn and large enough to be very useful. I think that a modeller or historian will find this volume immensely interesting and so it comes highly recommended.

Thanks to Luftfahrtverlag START for the sample