Customer Reviews

Tiger Tank

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The first thing that must be said is not a comprehensive history of the Tiger I and II. It does not contain a complete set of pictures and line drawings, and is perhaps not the most useful source for the modeler from that standpoint. It does contain a lot of color photos of existing Tigers - at Aberdeen, Munster, Bovington, Saumur, and Fort Knox - and those pictures are worthwhile.

The interesting thing about this book is that it contains a lot of *Allied* viewpoints on the Tiger - intelligence reports and after-action reports from Americans, British, and Soviets who faced the Tiger. The author also describes all the various methods the Allies used to deal with the Tiger: aircraft, anti-tank guns, artillery, and in the Soviet case, the SU-152 and IS-2. At times there was so much emphasis on this I thought the book should have been called "Beating the Tiger".

The main German viewpoint the author draws from is Otto Carius, Tiger in the Mud.

In sum, while this might not be the best and most comprehensive book on the Tiger tanks, it is still well done and includes a lot of information I'd never seen before.