"Armoured Cars Against the Wallachians, 1917", therefore, presumably, an account of AC ops in southern Romania. Don't know a great deal about that theatre but according to patriotfiles, sorry, Landships, the ACs in question will be Erhardts, "used with success first against Romania in 1917 and then on the Ukranian front in 1918."
Sounds most interesting. I doubt there's an English translation. If not, I'll do it. Hour/word rate negotiable.
-- Edited by James H on Wednesday 6th of April 2011 11:42:53 PM
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Digitized copies of the original for online reading available only to Americans due to copyright considerations. Oh well
I don't read German
there is still trade in the originals
the successors to Lt Wilhelm Siemer and/or A. Scherl, G.M.B.H. no doubt benefit thereby
James H wrote:
... according to patriotfiles, sorry, Landships, the ACs in question will be Erhardts, ...
Yeah, no joke, the bustard currently outranks Landships on Google searches AND unconscionably redacts credit to PDA on the video clip included. No doubt just biding his time until Landships expires (hasn't woken up to the fact of the Internet Archive preserving evidence of prior publication or doesn't care).
Siemer was the commander of one of the ACs of PzKrMGAbt 1 in Romania. They had one Daimler/15, one Ehrhardt/15 and the Büssing/15, plus two captured Belgian Minerva ACs for scouting. IIRC, Siemer was commander of the Daimler.
It's an eyewitness report, therefore quite interesting. But don't expect too much detail. Nor are there any internal processes revealed or great lines of operation described. - It's just a wartime book, written under censorship with the evident intention of pushing morale.
Siemer was the commander of one of the ACs of PzKrMGAbt 1 in Romania. They had one Daimler/15, one Ehrhardt/15 and the Büssing/15, plus two captured Belgian Minerva ACs for scouting. IIRC, Siemer was commander of the Daimler.
It's an eyewitness report, therefore quite interesting. But don't expect too much detail. Nor are there any internal processes revealed or great lines of operation described. - It's just a wartime book, written under censorship with the evident intention of pushing morale.
I ordered this book today, but it will take around 4 weeks until I get it. Is it the only eyewitness report on German WWI armoured cars (I haven't heard of any other)?
Are there any photos or tables in this book or is it pure text?
-- Edited by Albert on Wednesday 29th of June 2011 12:47:37 PM
Hard to think another, while they had so little force. At least Die deutschen Radpanzer im Ersten Weltkrieg has no such books in bibliography, not even this one.
Albert, I would be happy to hear something more about it's content when you will read it...
Hard to think another, while they had so little force. At least Die deutschen Radpanzer im Ersten Weltkrieg has no such books in bibliography, not even this one.
Albert, I would be happy to hear something more about it's content when you will read it...
Yes, the fact of existence of "Panzer-Automobile gegen die Walachen" was a surprise for me (I didn't know about it until I read this topic). I also have "Die deutschen Radpanzer im Ersten Weltkrieg" and it's strange that the author didn't use this book (at least didn't mention it in bibliography).
Of course, I'll write something about this book after reading it, but first the book has to arrive, which will take a few weeks, and then I'll have to read it, which will also take some time (my German is very far from perfect ;)).
-- Edited by Albert on Wednesday 29th of June 2011 02:58:26 PM
