Reviewer: Pablo Bauleo
IPMS: # 46363
Publisher: Firefly Books
Product: To the Last Bullet: Germany's War on Three Fronts - Part 1, The East
By Dennis Olivier
25 pages, 6 B/W photos with over 70 color illustrations
Limited Edition of 1000 copies
ISBN 978-0-9806593-4-4
Review
This book is the first of a series and they look very promising for the AFV modeler. The book is clearly focused on armored fighting vehicles camouflages and markings, having over 70 full color illustrations of German late war machines.
The book includes 4 pages with a write-up on the Eastern Front starting in 1944, but it is not intended to be more than a general description of the Army groups located in each sector of the front. Two large maps are included, one showing the Eastern Front prior to the 1944 Soviet attack (Operation Bagration) and another one showing the Oder Front, previous to the Soviet thrust against Berlin.
The main content of the book are the 70+ color profiles of armored vehicles. There is a little bit of everything, mainly Panthers, with some Tigers, several 251s and a few odds and ends, including a few turrets that were used as pill-boxes in the Battle of Berlin, and a couple of American captured AFV in german markings.
The print quality is outstanding and the profile details are excellent. A good selection of camouflages and markings are displayed, including two and three tones camouflages, ambush schemes, white wash and even some single color late-war machines.
All the profiles have a short description on the vehicle and units and most of them also have a detailed drawing of the unit badge
It should be noted that the author makes an effort to make clear when interpretations or assumptions were made in the creation of a profile.
This book is recommended for German late war AFV modelers. I would like to thank Firefly and Dragon Models for the review sample. By the way, Bison Decals is announcing in their website that decal sets in 35th and 72nd to accompany this book series will be available soon.
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