Type VII U-boat "Workshop Manual" Coming In October

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I was looking through Haynes' catalog of upcoming books and found this:



Jokey concept aside, I actually really enjoy this series of books, and although they aren't really "workshop manuals" in the truest sense, they're generally filled with obscure technical stuff you don't usually see in other books. They're the kind of books you buy if you want to know what sized screws were used by Routemaster buses, what a Spitfire's wheelbrakes looked like, how to start the engines on a Lancaster bomber, how to drive a Tiger tank, what the different autopilot modes on a 747-400 do, how often you should change the photon torpedo launcher on a Klingon Bird of Prey...basically stuff you'll never need to know in day-to-day life, but are fascinating anyway.

Still, I'm kinda confused if this book if about the Type VII, or German U-boats in general. The description and the cut-away on the cover suggest it's about the VII, the "1906 onwards" and "German submarine fleet" seem to suggest it's about every U-boat Germany has ever built. I'm hoping it just focuses on the VII in detail, with lots of technical diagrams and detailed descriptions of the boat's systems. If it tried to cover every type of U-boat since 1906, it would just be another coffee-table book with limited re-readability value. Guess I'll just wait and see.