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Author is Jeff D EBERLE, is a hardback with 256 pages and 407 black and white photographs, 248x172mm in portrait format. 

Full disclosure here, I fully expected this to be a basic collection of images already seen, and poorly captioned. I could not have been more wrong. This is a rich trove of previously unseen (to me) images that you're not going to find on the internet with any amount of searching. The captions are accurate, concise, and informative; for a "photo album" book, there is a lot of reading, but the images really carry the day here. 

The book opens with a glossary of terms used, an introduction, then moves on to "parts" by date, starting with Part I, 1939-1942, page 11; and, Part II, 1943-1961 [sic], page 131. Printed on heavy, high-quality, low gloss paper, there is nothing to dislike about this book. About the only thing not present are colour images from the period. They may be the subject of a second volume, but I do not know. 

The introduction, a page long, is a personal letter from the author, Jeff D EBERLE, about how he started collecting photographs of World War Two before he was a teenager, and it grew from there, either buying the photographs when he found them, or from the family directly, where known. I like how the soldiers are named where known, it makes for a very personal read, and the location, again, if known.  

The captions add context to the images, and some analysis, too, see the image with the T 35 below. 

The book is full of incredible images which serve as a great record of life and service during WWII and after as experienced by Germans. I could go on, gushing about the quality and quantity, but a select sample will suffice...

Image with analysis