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Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janushead by: Marcel Stein List Price: £29.95 City Travel Guides Price: £19.76 You Save: £10.19 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 940 EAN: 9781906033026 ISBN: 1906033021 Label: Helion & Company Manufacturer: Helion & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: February 20, 2006 Publisher: Helion & Company Studio: Helion & Company Sales Rank: 197995 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Could have been excellent, if weren't published horriblyIn terms of design, editing, typesetting and proofreading, this is the worst book I've red in the last 20 years or so. 5 stars for author's content, 1 for publisher's mess of a job. Let me elaborate. The German original of this book has the title "Der Januskopf: Feldmarschall von Manstein: eine Neubewertung" ("The Janushead: Field Marshal von Manshtein: A Reappraisal") and a Roman coin with double-faced Janus on its cover. Clear and simple: Janus implies duplicity, so probably not everything was OK with the "best strategic mind" of the Wehrmacht. Hence 'reappraisal.' What was wrong with that? Apparently, everything. On page iv, you can find that the English edition "is not a verbatim translation of the ... Read More: |
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