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August 3rd, 2007, 06:28 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
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I'm tempted by the Didier Lodieu book....but a copy of Restayn's 'Tiger I On The Western Front' has just arrived from Amazon...in time to provide some summer holiday browsing over the next two weeks.  |
Let me know if it any good m8 , as iam waiting for Amazon to post my copy |
August 3rd, 2007, 06:47 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
..forthcoming from Heimdal & a suscription offer in the current 39-45 Magazine ..a new study from authors Casenave and Warnick entitled 'Tiger - SS-Pz Rgt 2 to s.Pz.Abt 102/502... promising 400 pages and 400 previously unpublished photos
current issue of the magazine has a very nice article on SS-Pz. Rgt. 2 DR Panthers in the East by the same authors..
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August 3rd, 2007, 08:39 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
This bloke 'FalkeEins' costs me an absolute fortune !  Just when I think I've got everything, along he comes with another Tiger or Fw190 tome without which my life will be incomplete...... 
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August 4th, 2007, 02:39 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
....I know ..I've just invested in this new German language reprint of the first title in your list published by Flechsig last year...worth getting via amazon.de at only €14 for a 416 page hardback (incredible value!) since it contains a large selection of 'new' photos - particularly of s.Pz.Abt 503 Tigers & crews - from Bernd Burmeister's collection..Bernd's uncle was a former 503 Tiger commander ...he was kind enough to send me some copies..
I've got the Fedorowicz s.Pz. Abt. 503 history and its also nice to see those pics reprinted properly in this new German edition as well..
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August 4th, 2007, 05:23 PM
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It's seems like you got a real winner there! It is quite cheap to say the least. I may consider buying it.
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September 3rd, 2007, 08:07 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
Can some one recommend a good Tiger II book please |
September 3rd, 2007, 08:36 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
you may not want to patronize these guys but they do have a wide huge selection and their strong points are German armor .......... you guys already know whom I speak.
JJF pubs in Canada and interesting that W. Schneider has already done the book on the Schwere SS Pz. Abt 102/502, why another one I wonder ?
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September 4th, 2007, 05:26 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
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Can some one recommend a good Tiger II book please |
Actually, I haven't yet come across a definitive book devoted to the King Tiger ( they usually get a chapter or two at the end of most 'Tiger' books ).
(This is the cue for FalkeEins to recommend 'Der Wunder Buch das Tiger II mit loads of Bilder' available in German only for £149.99p....  )
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September 4th, 2007, 05:37 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
The Spielberger one (Tiger & Kingtiger Tanks & their variants) doesn't really lose steam once it gets to the TigerII, detail remains strong as he covers the I & II as essentially the same project.
Still no sign of the reprint though so don't buy it now if you fancy a shufti, it should be cheaper & easier to find soon.
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October 1st, 2007, 02:24 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
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This bloke 'FalkeEins' costs me an absolute fortune ! Just when I think I've got everything, along he comes with another Tiger or Fw190 tome without which my life will be incomplete...... |
..just wondering whether you've seen or invested in Schneider's Das Reich Tigers.. |
October 1st, 2007, 02:27 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
Neil this is a question I have had for months, is Das Reich By Schneider the same as the SS Schwere Pz Abt. 102/502 or two different volumes ?
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October 1st, 2007, 05:35 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
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..just wondering whether you've seen or invested in Schneider's Das Reich Tigers..
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'Invested in...' - that's the excuse I use for my wife !
No I haven't - doubtless this will be another FalkeEins recommendation which I shall be unable to resist when I finally see it in a shop..... 
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October 1st, 2007, 05:53 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
with the equivalent of around US 138.00 this is no steal of a big book. What Tigers in Combat 2 does not do this one does by putting the Das Reich Tigers with the heavy tank Abt. to finish out it's lineage. maps, first hand accts, every photo in the book from one review has been printed and released elsewhere........... too bad as I have a few Tiger books myself which may be a total amazement for a LW nut like me.
Around $ 90.00 in the states where released
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October 6th, 2007, 05:28 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
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Ok Martin, this thread should be a long one if the guys will add in......
I enjoy this volume as there are some great memories of the intensity of fighting with the Tiger 1 and 2.
The superlative works by Wolfgang Schneider :
Tigers in Combat 1 and 2.
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I just received #1 yesterday.
I've read maybe 1/3 of the way through, it's quite like no other book I own. Nice pictures,too.
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October 24th, 2007, 03:36 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
Just managed to buy - via 'Amazon Marketplace' - a secondhand copy of Jentz/Doyle's 'Germany's Tiger Tanks : DW to Tiger I - Design, Production & Modifications'.
Maybe not for bedtime reading, but the illustrations look excellent and I'm looking forward to discovering the various differences between early/mid/late production Tigers - something I've always been confused by.....
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October 24th, 2007, 03:43 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
are you still pondering Schneiders massive Das Reich Martin ?
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October 24th, 2007, 03:44 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
I still haven't yet seen it..... 
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October 24th, 2007, 04:10 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
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Just managed to buy - via 'Amazon Marketplace' - a secondhand copy of Jentz/Doyle's 'Germany's Tiger Tanks : DW to Tiger I - Design, Production & Modifications'.
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Thus forcing yourself to eventually buy their next volume on the Tiger 2 and the Tiger tactics one? 
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October 24th, 2007, 04:53 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
No - for the time being, at least, my 'Tiger library' is OK.....
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October 24th, 2007, 04:57 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
how many volumes now Martin on the Tiger ? you have the gent Resaytn (sp ?) volumes yes ?
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October 24th, 2007, 05:40 PM
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Re: Best TIGER book, anyone?
Only 'Western Front' - apart from the technical volumes and memoirs such as that of Carius, my main Tiger interest is Normandy/NW Europe....
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