Customer Review: This translation is far from perfect, but it's a must for students of the renaissance martial arts. The frustrating flaws with this presentation are that everything is translated, including terms for specific movements and techniques. Students who are used to using the original, specific German... more info
Customer Review: As neither an art historian nor an artist, I don't know how I was lucky enough to find this book. It is an intellecutally and aesthetically enriching experience from start to finish. The author presents Durer in a full historical context, dramatically explaining his importance in time and place.... more info
Customer Review: This book opens with a sequence of images which shows how good it might have been. Each image is given a full page, unencumbered with text, and thus obtains its full power. Unfortunately, that's where it ends, as most of the rest of the book is like looking through somebody's stamp collection, with... more info
Customer Review: A fantastic overview of German tactics and doctrine, at the philosophic level, on the eve of World War II. I particularly enjoyed the sort of foreshadowing you see in this work of the coming of air and armor tactics that are still experimental at the time of the work's completion.
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