When Wolf-Dieter Roth (DL2MCD) first approached me to review this English translation of a classic German reference book, I wasn’t sure how I would do that as I am not a book reviewer, but rather an editor.

This also being a translation, I was afraid that I would spend my time correcting the text rather than enjoying the content. While there are some „unique“ translations, in general, the translation is good but what surprised me when I got a copy to read was that it was not what I was expecting.

This is not a normal textbook with different people‘s opinions of how good or bad a radio was or how it worked. It is more a technical reference that while indeed it explains how certain radio models worked and the progression of the technologies used over the years between 1929 and 1983, it does this mainly through technical block diagrams of the different radios.