New book about German military codes of manufacturers
Hello!
I hope it's not a prohibited advertisement to present an own book, but since last week my book "Deutsche Fertigungskennzeichen bis 1945" is finished. Maybe someone is interested in German markings of WW2.
It has more than 500 pages, is sorted in two ways (after codes and after company-names), contains all military code systems (abbreviations, number-codes, letter-codes, LDO-numbers for medals & insignias and the RZM-numbers for NSDAP- & SS-equipment).
The text-part is written in German and English language. The part with the codes is not translated, because there is not much to translate. But I have forced the publisher to print the text in English language too. I think it's very important to know the background and the development of the code systems. I have found many original documents in archives to reproduce the way of the development step by step.
In my book I have all codes from the first abbreviation (ammo manufaturers) from 1920 to the late letter-codes "ozz". I have also added about three pages with identified codes after "ozz" (like "swj" for Steyr and so on).
There are many mistakes in names and addresses in the codebook from John Walther and the old one from Karl Pawlas. I have check EVERY name and address, so I hope to have limited the mistakes to the minimum.
Well, it's my hobby and I do not earn money for living with my book. It took me seven years to check every single code and location on historic landmaps. I have added the todays names of the towns, so that everyone can find the locations on modern landmaps. So I'm really happy now .
There is no commercial distribution to dealers outside Germany, so if someone might be interested, I can send books from me.
The price is 41,- EUR (= 60,- USD) inclusive airmail-postage (sorry for the high postage).
In Europe it's only 35,- EUR incl. postage and in Germany 32,- EUR incl. postage.
I can send some pics and scans by e-mail!
With best wishes
Michael Heidler
e-mail: ggbuch@web.de
I hope it's not a prohibited advertisement to present an own book, but since last week my book "Deutsche Fertigungskennzeichen bis 1945" is finished. Maybe someone is interested in German markings of WW2.
It has more than 500 pages, is sorted in two ways (after codes and after company-names), contains all military code systems (abbreviations, number-codes, letter-codes, LDO-numbers for medals & insignias and the RZM-numbers for NSDAP- & SS-equipment).
The text-part is written in German and English language. The part with the codes is not translated, because there is not much to translate. But I have forced the publisher to print the text in English language too. I think it's very important to know the background and the development of the code systems. I have found many original documents in archives to reproduce the way of the development step by step.
In my book I have all codes from the first abbreviation (ammo manufaturers) from 1920 to the late letter-codes "ozz". I have also added about three pages with identified codes after "ozz" (like "swj" for Steyr and so on).
There are many mistakes in names and addresses in the codebook from John Walther and the old one from Karl Pawlas. I have check EVERY name and address, so I hope to have limited the mistakes to the minimum.
Well, it's my hobby and I do not earn money for living with my book. It took me seven years to check every single code and location on historic landmaps. I have added the todays names of the towns, so that everyone can find the locations on modern landmaps. So I'm really happy now .
There is no commercial distribution to dealers outside Germany, so if someone might be interested, I can send books from me.
The price is 41,- EUR (= 60,- USD) inclusive airmail-postage (sorry for the high postage).
In Europe it's only 35,- EUR incl. postage and in Germany 32,- EUR incl. postage.
I can send some pics and scans by e-mail!
With best wishes
Michael Heidler
e-mail: ggbuch@web.de
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