Tigers in Combat II

By Wolfgang Schneider

During this follow-up to Tigers in strive against I (0811731715), Wolfgang Schneider turns his consciousness to the Tiger tanks of the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht's named devices, resembling the Gro_deutschland department, corporation Hummel, and Tiger crew Meyer.
Based on real wrestle diaries, the textual content presents the background of every unit, outlining power, gear, commanders, and engagements.
But the guts of the publication is the loads of images, a lot of them infrequent, that express those tanks and their crews in motion and at rest.
Supplementing those are complex colour drawings that carry the Tigers to lifestyles and focus on markings, camouflage, and insignia.
The publication deals a gorgeous and precise examine the Tiger.

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