German and Austrian Aviation of World War I: A Pictorial Chronicle of the Airmen and Aircraft that Forged German Airpower (Osprey Aviation Pioneers 3)
Hugh Cowin,Hugh W. Cowin | 2000-06-15 00:00:00 | Osprey Publishing | 96 | Aviation
It comes as quite a shock to find out just how many German and Austrian aircraft types were developed during, and deployed in, the Great War. This volume illustrates and analyses every single type, featuring aces such as the Red Baron, Theodore Osterkamp with his Fokker EV, and Hermann Goering.
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The book is a just nice photo elbum of many , I mean many, different type s of aircrafts produced in Germany and Austria-Hungary before and during the Great War. Some pictures and types of aircraft are extremely rare ones .On the other hands some pictures might be so familiar that you know exactly when and where the picture was taken. Captions are very matter-of-factly and dry ,but more or less informative. If you are interested in more than pretty colorful profile illustration , this is the book for you,but don't expect more than that.
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Given the limitations of photographic technology at the time, the vast majority of these photos are stills, not action photos. There is quite a wide range of aircraft depicted, however, with a one- to -three paragraph caption for each one. All the photos are in black and white, so the book is likely to be of somewhat marginal use to wargamers as a painting guide, but the photos are generally good enough quality to be of some use.
Given that this IS basically an annotated photo album, the text doesn't flow and provide the sort of continuous narrative that would be found in an Osprey book less devoted to the pictures. With the understanding, though, that that is what you'd be getting, I can recommend this book for anyone seeking good photos of German aircraft of WWI.
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