Introduction to crystallography: by Frank Hoffmann, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 1st Ed., 2020, 319 pp., Price GBP 56.18 (Hardcover), ISBN-13:978-3030351090.

The book's chapters are well-organized and bring the reader on a journey from simple observations about crystals and symmetry to space groups and the IUCr International Tables for Crystallography. The next two chapters, Chapters 5 and 6, deal with translational symmetry elements in crystals, glide planes and screw axes, and how these combine with the already established symmetry elements to build up the 230 space groups. I have a confession: although I have read biographies of crystallographers, this is the first book on crystallography that I have read from cover to cover. [Extracted from the article]