Book "The Krim Shield"

[Dietrich Maerz]

The book "The Krim Shield" just went to the printer and should be available mid July. This is the amended/expanded version of the German title "Der Krim Schild" by Sascha Weber.

It covers all known makers of the Krim Shield as well as miniatures, documents and fakes. Hardbound in black linen with dust jacket, 140 pages.

This is the first book in an upcoming series which will cover all campaign shields.

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There is a Limited Leather Edition (100 books) which will not be available via retail channels. Each book is numbered and hand-bound in green leather.

[mametz]

Looks to be a good book, how much will it be, and where can i order
it from?
Regards
Mametz

[Infansammler]

Orders in USA/World to www.ironcross1939.com

Orders in Europe/Germany to www.militariafachbuch.eu

[Hans N]

Is this going to be a sequal of several editions like the IAB book and are the proper credit given to those who have done the real research?

[Dietrich Maerz]

Hi Hans,

are you asking me?

Dietrich

[Hans N]

Hi Hans,

are you asking me?

Dietrich

Nope, it´s directed to the author.

[Marc Garlasco]

You know I am down for all of your books! Und ve like leather in my family...

[Dietrich Maerz]

Nope, it´s directed to the author.

OK!

One remark as an author (and I'm sure other authors, like Marc, will agree): it is impossible IMHO to have a complete work with no future extensions done. It is the investigative side of mankind that always more and more comes to light.

Sure, the first IAB book was very sketchy and needed to be revised. However, and even Frank acknowledges that, Sascha was the very first to come up with this type of books style and the next authors (Frank, Marc, Tom, Philippe, Stijn and myself) just followed that path and refined it. But nobody will have written a 'complete' book. Nobody!

A note to the 'sources' since I had a discussion with a good friend just some days ago. It is the academic rule to quote the original source. In our case this is most likely a original document, advertisement, magazine, or picture from the past. It is not necessary to quote the cleaning women (as an example) who found the newspaper with the picture in it. This is more a question of courtesy from the author or vanity on part of the cleaning women.

All the above mentioned authors drew a lot of information form the websites (if that is what you meant) and I am absolutely sure that not all of the contributing members of each revealing discussion were mentioned in the acknowledgement sections. I for sure did not.

Our kind of books are only in a very small part original work - the larger part is compilation and presentation of already known (to some - not all) knowledge. The books are intended to serve as a help for the collectors who do not follow the subject closely. They are not academic revelations of complete new findings or discoveries.

That being said, I have no idea whether the amount of shields presented in the book are all there are. I doubt it. On the other hand - nobody will ever know what the total number is and if someone would only allow a perfect book with all the numbers in it - he will never get one beacuse it is impossible.

I know from experience that it is very easy to say "I write a book" but it is extremely hard to finish it! Only a few succeed in that department.

However, original sources need to be named and contributors need to be acknowledged - that goes without saying! I agree 100% with you!

[Hans N]

Hi Dietrich,

well i hope the "cleaning lady" bit is not something like this article writtten by Sascha Weber in IMM but yet researched and unvailed by another fellow collector...

[Dietrich Maerz]

No, it is not. Why would you think so?

And why is this coming up in this context? The hyperfuzz about this article was NOT that Bastian was not mentioned (for the non-German readers, he is!) as the one who found the magazine with the pictures in it. The fuzz (made by some people who could not even read the German text ....) was that some parts are literally taken resp. reamianed unchanged from a previous article by Bastian who agreed that Sascha could use the article and sent it to Sascha. This has nothing to do with quoting sources (which was done), Bastian or "üü". It was a flat out misunderstanding and both parties recognized that and made their peace, as far as I recall. And for all who want to read the real account look here (in german...):

http://sammlergemeinschaft-deutscher...threadid=32912

But it is a good example! Thank you. I want to be mentioned in all future works of all authors that I was the one (= the "cleaning women" if you wish) who could proof that L/15 is Schickle since I got hold of an original letter stating the fact. I hope that will happen (Just kidding, just kidding! - I really don't need that!)

Dietrich

[hlynur76]

Good stuff Dietrich