[Milsurplus] Fabulous! Rommel and the Secret War in North Africa: Secret Intelligence in the North African Campaign 1941-43

[Hubert Miller]

This is my actual complete post. My hair-trigger computer misfired on the previous.

I want to give my amen to Brian's note and also am forwarding it to a couple other groups, I think it's so noteworthy.
The book is:  'Rommel and the Secret War in North Africa 1941 - 1943';  Janusz Piekkalkiewicz; translated from 'Rommel und die Geheimdienste in Nordafrika 1941 -1943'.
I bought this pre-read, in very good condition, but with one tear on the dj; I like not to pay retail - unless I really need to make a high offer to get that radio !
This book offers in my estimation, great value for money. It is profusely, and I mean profusely, illustrated with very interesting photos.
This book will appeal especially to those interested in such keywords as WWII North Africa, British WWII radio, German WWII radio. Some few Italian equipments are also
pictured. but I did not recognize any.
It would be interesting to have a Brit reader identify the British radios seen here.
If there's one complaint I might make, It's that some 2-page photo spreads are not captioned, while these are typically extremely interesting photos.
Of special note: page 162 pictures a Collins 18M trans-receiver ( also labeled model TCH by U.S. Navy ) in British use. Radio is suspended by spring cords in framework, similar
to the way Japanese and Italian WWII aircraft radios were antishock mounted. The caption unfortunately describes "British radioman listens in on Panzerarmee", which
I suppose adds spice to the photo of what I suspect is just usual 2-way British traffic. I have seen previously only one photo of this radio in British service; that photo seems
unknown to other enthusiasts, and exists only in a pretty low resolution form. In that photo, the shock - suspension cage is not used.
Page 187 surprisingly enough has a miscaptioned photo; the photo is of a German using a Torn.Fu series radio, it's not "a British radioman". Even not knowing the exact model
one will notice the German Tornister set antenna base with its water shield. Also I detected that the man's hairstyle is more continental than  British, but I won't argue that point
strongly.
Thanks, Brian, for bringing this to my attention. I suspected that I would as often happens be somewhat disappointed with another book, but this one is well worth looking into.
-Hue Miller
Newport, Oregon
U.S.A.

>Guys,
I just received my hardcopy today, full of terrific photos, most of which I had never seen elsewhere before
This is a must-have book for German radio and Enigma enthusiasts
and anyone wanting to see lots of pictures of Enigmas
and German, Italian, and British military radios
and mobile radio vans in WWII
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best, brian      kn4r
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