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In the late 1970's, the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute For Military History) in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany undertook to produce a comprehensive, quasi-official history of the Second World War. The resulting 10-volume work was published in German between 1979 and 2008 in 13 parts.

In 1990, Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press) began publishing an English translation of the German work. This effort is on-going, with 9 of the 13 parts having been published at a rate of one approximately every two years.

In the following table, the publishing dates of the final four parts are approximate. Those for Volume IX/II and Volume VIII were provided by email communication with Oxford University Press, and those for X/I and X/II are extrapolations based on past translation rates. Also, the titles and number of pages are based on the existing German volumes and may change slightly.

Germany and the Second World War

 * The first edition of Volume IV also included a separate spiral-bound book of 27 maps, in the original German

Availability and Price
The first editions of each volume are bound in blue cloth with gold trim and are covered in a black dust jacket with red and yellow print. They generally list for US $250-$550 when first published. The first editions for Volumes I,II,III,IV,V/I, and VI are out of print and very scarce, particularly in good condition with dust jackets, and can be very expensive. These volumes are now available in print-on-demand editions for approximately the original list price. Print-on-demand editions are issued without a dust-jacket (instead, the dust-jacket is printed on the end-boards, except for Volume II, for which the end-boards are solid black), and have a lower quality binding than that of the first editions.