Arado/Volker Koos (Fonthill)

[Pasoleati]

Anyone here read it? There is one extremely critical review on Amazon suggesting that the translation and editing have badly failed...

 

[Dagger]

I have not seen this book, but I suspects it is a new English edition of Volker Koos' German book from 2007: https://www.amazon.com/Arado-Flugzeugwerke-Volker-Koos/dp/3898807282

In general: a book that pretends to discuss all planes built by a manufacturer would have to be very thick (at least 400 pages A4 size) as otherwise each plane can only be discussed superficially, like on wikipedia and other websites.
Note also one critical reviewer on amazon of the original German edition calling it superficial.

This new edition has 192 pages of 17 x 25 cm, which is equivalent to only 130 pages A4 size.
The original German edition from 2007 had only 128 pages of 20 x 28 cm.

 

[Pasoleati]

Thanks for the info! The question is: Why wasn't this one selected for translation? https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jörg-Kra...eywords=Luftfahrt+arado&qid=1627207475&sr=8-2

 

[Dagger]

You would need to contact the publisher and ask whether they intend to publish a new English edition of that book. There is an email address on their website: https://www.monch.com/mpg/bernard-graefe.html

 

[Pasoleati]

6 volumes from the series have been translated by 3 publishers (4 by Schiffer, 1 bby Midland, 1 by Putnam) now.

 

[airman]

i have seen it on google play @ 8,50 Euro.