Arado AR 232:: The Luftwaffe's Combat Zone Transport Aircraft in World War II (Schiffer Military History) Paperback – November 11, 2002

Not enough technical information about the model B,photos, images, mostly about the model A,I'm building a model(Mach 2)& there's not enough technical information about the subject.

If the Ar232 is what you're interested in, this is the book you've been waiting for. Really excellent drawings showing all external and many internal details. Great cockpit information. Lots of detail pix, but I could have done with fewer pix of models.

I normally wouldn't write anything just to pan a book, but I see that the only other review up gives this book 5 stars, and I've got to do my part to warn other aviation historians/buffs about this volume.144 pages4 pages (perhaps 5 if you are being generous) of actual text. Not including photo captions.Of the 140 photographs of the Ar232, fully 71 are of a model. A well done model, but a model.This is disappointing enough, but the technical drawings (from contemporary pilot and technical manuals) are all nearly totally untranslated. Engine diagrams, various wing configuratons, cockpit layout and armament arrangements; there are illustrations for all, and labeled in German. The lack of care this shows, and the want of detail in the captions is aggravating. In a couple photos of the model, you might find yourself wondering "what that little bit is for?" The caption certainly won't tell you, and the drawings likely won't be of any explanatory use either.All the photos and drawings do is give the reader a very good idea of what the Ar-232 looked like. Very little else is accomplished by this book.What you do get, a very brief history of the type along with several dozen photos and some nice drawins would have made a decent 40 page Schiffer book. At 140 pages and a $30 sticker price however, this book is simply not worth your time.

The book has no evaluation of the plane,no pilot or crew experiences. There is hardly any specifications and those that there are, are filled with "no data available", the line drawings on the whole are poor, and there is no scale for the few scale drawings.So what is in the book? Mainly photos of a model, but it seems that that was not enough to fill this book out, so they decided to give you the same photos, once in black and white and once in colour.There is a good story to be told about this aircraft, but this is just a story of how not to produce a book

Firstly the book is not hardcover, but soft, something that could be forgiven if the book was any good.The book has no evaluation of the plane,no pilot or crew experiences. There is hardly any specifications and those there are, are filled with no data available, the line drawings on the whole are poor, and there is no scale for the few scale drawings.So what is in the book? Mainly photos of a model, but it seems that that was not enough to fill this book out, so they decided to give you the same photos, once in black and white and once in colour.There is a good story to be told about this aircraft, but this is just a story of how not to produce a book.