JulianJ Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Hi all, I have been visiting Tankograd - the Soviet/Russian armour blog (which goes into mind boggling detail): https://thesovietarmourblog.blogspot.com/ Serendipity strikes: I neglected to bookmark it, and have cleared my cache, so when I typed Tankograd in the browser bar, I got this: TANKOGRAD PUBLISHING - JOCHEN VOLLERT PUBLISHING It's a German military publishers https://www.tankograd.com/cms/website.php site in both German and English. Has distributors around the world. Here's the UK one: https://www.bookworldws.co.uk/product-category/military/tankograd/ And the US: www.aberdeenbookstore.com www.rzm.com If you go to Outlets you can see the booksellers in many other countries. Loads of interesting stuff for modern, WW1 and WW2. Now I'm under house arrest like an effin' political prisoner I have started obsessively buying military books again. I wonder if Nelson Mandela ended up furtively poring over the details of track arrangements on Challenger 1s and 2s. In the old days at least it was porn mags. I'm clearly going downmarket. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJ Posted July 5, 2020 Author Share Posted July 5, 2020 Update I've now looked in more detail at Tankograd's catalogue, and frustratingly, a lot of the most interesting books are out of print. I wonder if a few of us emailed them they would consider doing those as Print on Demand (POD) as Osprey do - you can get publications from their back catalogue, it just takes a couple of weeks. What do you think? If they were convinced there was a market they might be more willing than if just one person wrote. Can we have a straw poll for what is the most popular book? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 (edited) On 7/5/2020 at 10:10 AM, JulianJ said: In the old days at least it was porn mags. I'm clearly going downmarket. Well we all go through different stages in our lives Good idea, but not sure I can help on the book suggestions. A couple of old favourites of mine are the Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW2 and Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, but they're already gathering dust in my attic and are available on Amazon for reasonable money. Panzers in Normandy Then and Now is a good one too. Perhaps there's a theme here, showing my true colours... Edited July 6, 2020 by Vacilllator 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJ Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 Thanks for your reply. Perhaps I wasn't clear - I was suggesting getting on to Tankograd publishing to re-release POD some of their old titles, not out of print stuff from other publishers, which would be a complex process. For example, there's a book on the Panther, which was in their "most popular" category but is now unavailable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Understood Julian, I just couldn't resist mentioning some good books. I'll have a look at Tankograd as I'm not familier with their catalogue. Thanks for pointing it out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJ Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 Actually, I agree, because I have got two out of three. You are a person of impeccable taste obviously :-). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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