Osprey books accurate?

[Jukka Juutinen]

Håkan, I raised the issue with osprey's staff and they excused the appalling adaptation of the dumbed down punctuation as a voluntary choice. One has to commend Americans for sticking to traditional punctuation. At least up to early 1990s Brits retained that too (mostly). But ever since, the downhill has been steep. One peculiar perversity typical to British publishers has been a rampant violation of international standards as to how abbreviate units of measurement (e.g. correct is "wing span of 12 m" vs. British perversity "...12m"). For some reason, people back in WW2 knew how to do it properly.