Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Reinhard Scheer

Reinhard Scheer edit

A departure (somewhat) from my usual battleship articles, this is the first biography I've attempted. I'd like to get some pointers to help me prepare this article for an eventual ACR and perhaps FAC. I know the article is pretty light on personal stuff, but it just isn't out there, as far as I can tell. Indeed, the Sweetman book says as much in regards to the difficulty in writing a biography of Scheer. Thanks in advance to all who take the time to review this article. Parsecboy (talk) 15:37, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Simon Harley edit

I'd have thought attempting to get a hold of Scheer's autobiography would be a must. There certainly seem to be enough copies for sale online; presumably there are some lurking in U.S. libraries.

Weir profile of Scheer isn't very penetrating - he quotes von Weizsäcker's memoirs (and draws a pretty daft conclusion from them) but declines to mention the hearsay account of him rubbishing Scheer's actions in 1936. --Simon Harley (Talk | Library). 14:54, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking through Worldcat, and it seems all of the editions are held only in Europe: 1, 2, 3. There's a microfilm at Yale in Connecticut, but that's not feasible for me. There's an edition in French in Michigan, but I don't speak much French so that would be of doubtful use to me. I couldn't find anything on Amazon or Alibris. It seems as though there's no shortage of his book on the war (it's available in Google Books), but not very much on his autobiography.

I did track down this collection of letters from Scheer to his wife, but those are all in Germany and thus unavailable to me. Parsecboy (talk) 15:32, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]