Not a book again, but there's a DVD produced by Bovington Tank museum on restoring Tiger 131, it's rather good & even now you feel for the maintenance chap as he explains the limited access in the engine compartment and the vagaries of the Maybach.
It can be bought via the excellent 'Tiger Journal' website covering the restoration; The Tank Museum, Bovington UK - Restoration of Tiger Tank 131, captured during World War II or at the museum itself.

(If you like Tigers and haven't seen the site I strongly recommend clicking 'The Journal' and immersing yourself in one of the most interesting Tiger resources on the Internet ).

& here's some video of the big beast (which needed a fair bit of tender loving care on the day) at 2006's Tankfest taken by my brother:
YouTube - Tiger 131 Backing Up
YouTube - Tiger
Talked to one chap who'd flown his family over from Spain that morning to see it & was going back that night & another who'd come from Italy for the week... The Tiger certainly can inspire a strange devotion.

Cheers,
Adam.

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No apology needed, FT - it's a valid point. It's quite amazing, the 'mystique' surrounding the Tiger - then and now. In a way it's similar to 'Spitfire!'......

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Say, Adam........I see you have a few YouTube videos. Sure wish I had access to places like this.
YouTube - Sdkfz251 d

Sorry if these are repeats...
Have Tigers in Combat 1 & 2,
Just got Tigers on the Eastern and Tigers on the Western Front, Jean Restayn
III Pz. Korps at Kursk, Dider Lodieu
and Tigers at the front, Thomas J. Jentz
Tigers I & II and their variants, Spielberger & Doyle

The "Mystique" continues with me.

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Saw and looked through this book ( published by JJF ) in London today.

A very large and handsome book with many interesting photos ( a lot of which were unfamiliar to me ). Yes, I'd like to have it, but my budget precludes spending £65.00 on a book just now.....

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I got 'Tigers In Combat' Vols I & II for Christmas and I've just started dipping into them.

Sadly, they are the Stackpole softback editions so the quality of photo reproduction isn't the greatest quality and, as I think FalkeEins pointed out, the books are a mixture of what is available elsewhere.

But on the 'plus' side - what a tremendous collection of photos these two books provide at a reasonable cost !

Looking forward to browsing further.....

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Coming 'soon' from the series mentioned in this thread.
Historic Military Vehicles Forum - - Tiger Project – Release date May 2008
Looks like the quality will be at least be up to the Panther one, and with twice as many pages.
I can't wait.

Cheers,
Adam.

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I would recommend...

Agte, 'Tiger Commanders of the Liebstandarte'

Carius, 'Tiger in the mud' (The old large format hardback copy if you can find it...)

The two volumes of Tigers in Combat are very nice. Also a good few pics in Panzerwrecks and in a Russian book that I have but cant remember the name at the mo!

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Really it depends on what you want. A technical history is really good in the Jentz books, DW to Tiger I, VK 45 to Tiger II, and the combat tactics. The Achtung Panzer Vol is good as well. As far as tiger unit histories go, JJ Fedorowicz publishes a whole slew of them, Tigers in Combat I and II (now available in softcover from Stackpole but the hardcover has much better picture clarity and the color plates are 100 times better.) Michael Wittmann and the Tiger Commanders of the Liebstandarte is good, good pictures and text, but has been criticized as being slight apologetic to the Nazis (this book was written by Patrick Agte who also did a similar book on Jochen Pieper and he did gloss over some of the nastier parts of the story but still they are solid references) Das Reich tigers by schnieder is good, but the pictures are nothing to write home about, the have all been seen elswhere. Combat history of the S.Pz.Abt 503, 507,and 508 are excellent, esp the one on 507. Funklenkpanzer is also a good book although not strictly on tigers it give excellent coverage to the units that used radio control equipment from a tiger. Personal memoirs are hard to find, the most notable being Tigers in the mud by otto carius, which is a good book, but gets a little thick at times. Schiffer published a few books by ex tiger crewmen the first being by rubbel from 503 in the "tiger Project" series but i wasnt too impressed.
PHIL

Stackpole have published their cheap paperback version of Fedorowicz's copy of the veterans' s.Pz Abt. 503 bible - due soon from Amazon for a tenner. Photo reproduction quality in the 'original' wasn't the best though ..and only 380 pages



meanwhile Flechsig Verlag have revised and expanded the original German-language edition to a massive 640 large-format pages. Due soon at €49. The original - less than 500 copies printed - occasionally pops up on Ebay and sells for about €250

Thx for the intell

You can also try Germany's Tiger Tanks from Thomas L. Jentz and Hillary doyle. I got the first volume the day before yesterday and it's a great book! The amount of info available is just breath taking and it's all from original sources. there are 3 volumes.
The first covers the original design the D.W. until the Tiger E (design development, statistics, Gear ratios breaks, modifications to the design,...) the second covers the Tiger II and the third is about historical emplacements and combat.

Amazon.co.uk: Germany's Tiger Tanks: Germany's Tiger Tanks DW to Tiger 1 Design, Production and Modifications: Thomas L. Jentz, Hilary L. Doyle: Books

Amazon.co.uk: Germany's Tiger Tanks: VK 45.02 to Tiger II - Design, Production and Modifications (Schiffer Military History): Thomas L. Jentz, Hilary L. Doyle: Books

Amazon.co.uk: Germany's Tiger Tanks: Tiger I and Tiger II - Combat Tactics: Thomas L. Jentz: Books


I'll probably order the other two books after hollidays if I hve enough money left
Oh you might try getting them from the German Amazon as the books are 1.5X cheaper!




Cheers...

Carius' book is one of my fav books and all about his Tiger combat experiences. As such its a pretty good memoir, although his writing is somewhat uneven, with some real gems. Otto is one amazing guy, no turncoat he stays loyal in his convictions. Funny thing, physically he looks like he just walked out of junior high but he's one of the greatest warriors of all time!
The Tiger is certainly my fav tank and IMHO the best in WWII by far.

Tigers in the Mud, I believe is widely available on Amazon, published in paperback from Stackpole.

Many thanks for the info on the 503 books, Neil.....

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Hands up who's going to Bovington to see Tiger 131 running this weekend!


Though if I'm honest I'm probably more excited about the Vickers Medium...

Cheers,
Adam.

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..I'm tempted Adam...nice to see you can print out your own programme via the web site ...
Tiger running on Sunday only apparently

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Kaczmarek - a German view of the air war

Is it bugger

What!!!

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