Tiger I: German Army Heavy Tank, Southern Front, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, 1942�1945 (TankCraft) de Oliver, Dennis - 2018-07-31

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Summary of design and operational history .

Pen & Sword, 2018. Paperback. New. 64 pages. 11.75x8.25x0.25 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Summary of design and operational history .

pp. 64 . Papeback. New.

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Pen & Sword, 2018. New book, 64 pages, 11 pages of full colour illustrations depicting 22 different vehicles, Colour and B&W photos of model kits in available scales. When at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputation despite their lack of reliability and the small number deployed. With its heavy armour and 88mm gun, it outclassed all the Allied tanks then in service and forced the Allies to accelerate the introduction of improved anti-tank guns and tanks that could match the Tiger in terms of firepower and protection. In this, his second volume in the TankCraft series on the Tiger, Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched colour illustrations to examine the Tiger tanks and German army units that first took them into combat in North Africa and then operated them as they fell back through Sicily and Italy between 1943 and 1945. A large part of the book showcases available… Leer más

Pen & Sword, 2018. New book, 64 pages, 11 pages of full colour illustrations depicting 22 different vehicles, Colour and B&W photos of model kits in available scales. When at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputation despite their lack of reliability and the small number deployed. With its heavy armour and 88mm gun, it outclassed all the Allied tanks then in service and forced the Allies to accelerate the introduction of improved anti-tank guns and tanks that could match the Tiger in terms of firepower and protection. In this, his second volume in the TankCraft series on the Tiger, Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched colour illustrations to examine the Tiger tanks and German army units that first took them into combat in North Africa and then operated them as they fell back through Sicily and Italy between 1943 and 1945. A large part of the book showcases available… Leer más

Pen & Sword, 2018. New book, 64 pages, 11 pages of full colour illustrations depicting 22 different vehicles, Colour and B&W photos of model kits in available scales. When at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputation despite their lack of reliability and the small number deployed. With its heavy armour and 88mm gun, it outclassed all the Allied tanks then in service and forced the Allies to accelerate the introduction of improved anti-tank guns and tanks that could match the Tiger in terms of firepower and protection. In this, his second volume in the TankCraft series on the Tiger, Dennis Oliver uses archive photos and extensively researched colour illustrations to examine the Tiger tanks and German army units that first took them into combat in North Africa and then operated them as they fell back through Sicily and Italy between 1943 and 1945. A large part of the book showcases available… Leer más

Pen & Sword, 2018. Paperback. New. 64 pages. 11.75x8.25x0.25 inches.