New George Nipe book-II.SS-Panzerkorps

[rommel170]

Hi,
It seems that Amazon is not accepting pre-order yet.Are there any price disagreement between RZM and Amazon?

[Doug Nash]

Amazon Orders

I have no idea - all I know is that the first shipments are currently in the postal system on their way to various customers & booksellers. Perhaps Mr. Spezzano can weigh in with an answer to that one?

[Michael Fay]

It's not a scam if you get what you paid for. So you have to wait a little while to get it - what's the big deal? There's certainly plenty of crap out there available right now - but for the good stuff, it's worth a delay of a month or two. I've recently learned that there's a lot that goes into publishing a book of this size and complexity, and it's very difficult for a small publisher like RZM. Hats off to Mr. Spezzano and his small crew for pulling off a work of this magnitude!

Doug, if you think I was disparaging the good publisher RZM, you are mistaken.
It is a scam if a third party used book seller on the web dishonestly claims they have a book but dont as it is not published yet...but charge you 3 times over the publishers actual wholesale price now and then tell you it will be coming-eventually.

As a book collector I wish for the success of any and all book publishers...as they appear to be an endangered species.

[behblc]

Thank you leib1 for pointing me to a few Uk sellers , order placed.

[Remy Spezzano]

Hi,
It seems that Amazon is not accepting pre-order yet.Are there any price disagreement between RZM and Amazon?

There is no problem with Amazon and RZM. We announced the book several years ago and Amazon started collecting orders for it. Unfortunately all of those orders had timed out because the release of the book was delayed. Since we could not give a definite release date to Amazon they decided to change the status of the books listing from "Coming soon, add to cart" to "Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available".

Today we received into our warehouse the shipment of books from the printer. So most likely in another week Amazon will change the status to "In Stock". Their system is so automated that it will take a few days for it to realize the book is available. So hold tight and before you know it you'll be able to buy it from them.
Then again you could just go right to our website and purchase the book now.

www.rzm.com/books/rzm/rzmbk013.cfm

[Mike C]

My copy just received - excellent layout and it looks like the content will be as comprehensive and analytical as Nipe's "Decision in the Ukraine". Well done.

Mike

[Remy Spezzano]

My copy just received - excellent layout and it looks like the content will be as comprehensive and analytical as Nipe's "Decision in the Ukraine". Well done.

Mike

Great! Glad to hear you like it.

[Remy Spezzano]

We are now offering a signed and numbered edition for sale.
Limited to 100 copies. http://www.rzm.com/books/rzm/rzmbk013.cfm

It will also include a forward which is not in the book written by German war veteran
SS Hauptsturmführer Ralf Tiemann. He was the commanding officer of 7./ Panzer Kompanie 1.SS-Pz.Gren Div "LAH" and winner of the German Cross in Gold on 2.10.1943.

[Mark C. Yerger]

Got my copy yesterday, very much worth the wait. As it should be, progressively superior to his prior two volumes with increased detail (if that seems possible) on both the Army and Waffen-SS units involved. As in his prior books, he documents what differs from other books and the clarity of photos is excellent. Not sure of the term but the "style" of the maps is excellent and more "visual" for me as one who actually studies them.

Likewise I read the various appendix material, passed over by many but heavy in detail and by themselves a hard type of material to compile (from my own experience). I liked the layout and ease of readability far more than his Kharkov book. Covering from the EM/NCO level to higher commanders, it's a bargain and a must buy for the historian as well as armor enthusiast. And my impression of his superlative effort has zero to do with knowing the author.

[Klaus Richter]

I agree with Mark. I received the book and it is truly excellent! I wish all battle histories were written like this.

[Mark C. Yerger]

I agree with Mark. I received the book and it is truly excellent! I wish all battle histories were written like this.

Battle, campaign, biographical, and similar actual researched text books are a who different type than 200 photos of other peoples hats with a 1 line captions that can be done in an afternoon. The sheer volume of material Nipe had to absorb, sequence, etc can only be grasped by someone who tried a similar project, and a minimal few ever complete. Most are regurgitated postwar reports with filler. Even pre-work is lengthy, I gathered material, documents, correspondence, illustrations and other material while organizing it for my SS/Police German Cross. Though completed yearly or more frequently, the start work was 15 years of full time work.

But of course I called him today and told him to get off his ass and start the next one and let me know what I have he can possibly use No in depth, lengthy, and complex historical book is perfect, mine included, but as far as I could tell only a single photo caption among some 500+ was mistakenly identified. To me Nipe's newest is like Maier's "Drama Between Budapest and Vienna" but not "dry" (though I also like Maier's book) and unlike Maier he covers all levels with an obvious superior illustration presentation.

I'd rate this volume, the 2nd volume of Luft bomber KC holders, and a Biblio volume as the best 3 new volumes I got this year.

[pasoleati]

--- is like Maier's "Drama Between Budapest and Vienna" but not "dry" (though I also like Maier's book)...

Ha! You actually admit to like Maier's book? To me it is in the top 5 of English non-technical military books (the top 1 technical military* book being Jap. Cruisers by Lacroix&Wells) I've ever read or seen...

*The Top 1 non-military technical book being the double volume Titanic set by Beveridge, Klistormer & Co.

[Klaus Richter]

Hmmm I wonder what Nipe will write about next... As far as Maier's book, I don't understand all the hatred for it. It's one of the better battle, campaign histories I've read. Yes, it can be dry, but I still love it.

[Mark C. Yerger]

Hmmm I wonder what Nipe will write about next... As far as Maier's book, I don't understand all the hatred for it. It's one of the better battle, campaign histories I've read. Yes, it can be dry, but I still love it.

no hatred, like it, just different style

[pasoleati]

Got my copy just this morning, so no in-depth comments. However, after viewing the overall design, I wonder why the author's preface thanks the designer Kim Burdick for the design is only lukewarm at best. Especially the idea of printing source notes with similar sized font is terrible, as is the decision to have them at the end of each chapter instead of either at the end of the book or at he bottom of each page.

The decision of using black background on photo pages is not good.

The preface is dated September 2011. Yet Nipe has apparently failed to take advantage of the publication of Zamulin's excellent book to provide newer Russian data.