Tigers in Combat, Vol. 2 [Hardcover]

Oberleutnant Wolfgang Schneider (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1988 | Series: Tigers in Combat (Book 2)

Hard cover, 12"x9", 460 pages, 590 photographs, 30 pages of color artwork of camouflage and markings. This volume covers the Tiger units of the Waffen SS as well as "named" units within the Army, such as Grodeutschland, Kompanie Hummel and Kompanie Meyer. Plenty of rare or previously unpublished photos and masses of combat diary information available for the first time. The color artwork by Jean Restyn is extremely accurate.

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About the Author

Wolfgang Schneider, an expert on German armor, lives in Germany. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 450 pages
• Publisher: J J Fedorowicz Pub (June 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0921991398
• ISBN-13: 978-0921991397
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,808,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Wolfgang Schneider served 41 years in the German Army and retired in 2010.
He is armor officer and left the army as Oberst having served in command functions up to deputy commander of a Panzerbrigade. About half of the service time he was responsible for combat development, procurement and doctrines.
He started work as an author of numerous military articles in 1979 and also wrote several books on technology and employment of armored vehicles.
He is married, has three daughters and lives in central Germany near Hannover.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Include Every Photograph Ever Made, March 27, 2005

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tigers in Combat, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

When the Allies invaded France in 1944, virtually every tank sighted and reported by the front line infantry was called a Tiger. In reality, there weren't that many Tigers produced (most of the German tanks in Normandy were Mark IV's). But the size, strength, and overall awesomeness of the Tiger transcended the actuality.

In this book the second on Tigers, Colonel Schneider must have found every photograph remaining of the Tigers. Both the regular Tiger I, and the King Tiger (which the Germans called Tiger II) are covered. I don't know just how many pictures are included in the book. Some pages, of course, don't have any, but most have two or three. These are not the pretty professionally made pictures, these are pictures taken in the field, probably by crewmen.

The book is broken down by the units that used the Tigers. In general the history of the unit, in so far of their Tigers, is given. For instance on 5 March 1943 the SS Panzer Regiment 1 lost a Tiger, leaving them with 9 on hand. They reached their maximum number of 25 Tigers on hand on the 15th of November. By April 1944 they had received 42 Tigers and lost 42 Tigers and had zero on hand. Regiment 2 received 31, lost 31.

You can't imagine the details that is given here. Note that this is not technical detail, this is the story of these tanks in action.

Colonel Schneider is currently the chief development officer for the next generation of German main battle tanks.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Second Half of a Superb Photo History, January 6, 2002

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Gerald P. Owens (Pompano Beach, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tigers in Combat, Vol. 2 (Hardcover)

The second volume of "Tigers in Combat" covers the named units of the German Army (Grossduetschland Division, and the various independent Tiger companies), as well as the Tigers assigned to the Waffen SS. Author Wolfgang Schneider has solicited help from veterans and their families to produce an unparalleled work which combines information from wartime unit diaries, delivery records, and strength reports as well as the veterans' personal journals to create a day to day history of every Tiger unit. But the real treat of this book is the illustrations. He uses very few of the official photos which have been published to death over the last six decades. As it happens, German troops were avid shutterbugs despite wartime regulations, and the veterans and their families have shared thousands of personal snapshots which have never been published before. The photos are well-reproduced in large format on glossy paper, and the captions give specific details as to the location, unit and date of every picture. There are also numerous color drawings by famed military artist Jean Restayn. Combine this with Thomas Jentz's excellent technical history of the Tiger and you have an ideal library on the beast.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional value., May 29, 2006

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Spinner (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tigers in Combat, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

This edition makes the english translation available to all those unable to bear the far higher cost of the limited edition. Stackpole continue making these seminal works on German armor available to all. I recomend this title and the series to the amateur WW2 historian.