By Michael Green, James D. Brown
The 1st prototype for the Tiger tank used to be set to be prepared for Hitlers birthday on April 20, 1942. The Henschel corporation, competing with Porsche, produced some of the best version, and through August of that yr the ambitious Tiger--or Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. H.--was in complete production.
This booklet takes us behind the curtain with the Tiger tank, reviewing the whole background, the layout and mechanics, and the combined checklist of this computing device, which was once designed to outgun its Russian opposite numbers.
Military author Michael eco-friendly bargains a close-up account--accompanied via pictures, diagrams, and maps--of how the Tiger tank operated, the way it was once armed, and the place it succeeded brilliantly, in addition to the place it failed miserably.
His e-book fills a desirable area of interest within the heritage of army expertise, and of the impression of know-how on heritage itself.
Read Online or Download Tiger Tanks at War PDF
Similar military books
The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots
Jon E. Lewis - The substantial booklet of Fighter Pilots
From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The immense publication of Fighter Pilots offers, within the phrases of the wrestle pilots who fought them, fifty remarkable air battles that experience formed army historical past within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand debts from the entire nice army campaigns of aerial conflict, together with global Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil warfare, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after fascinating web page of this singular assortment brings into bright play the exploits of such mythical pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe international battle II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and 40 different courageous airmen from the US, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. right here, too, are the planes during which those pilots flew into sleek historythe Spitfire, the Mustang, the Me 109, the 0, the F-16, the MiG, and the Harrier. including the death-defying drama of wrestle, this quantity vividly captures different elements of the fighter pilot's existence, together with the perils of bailing out in enemy territory, the day-by-day horrors of internment in a jap POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial strive against adventures during this stirring assortment supply a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled day trip into the shell-blasted skies of warfare within the 20th century.
Super-Heavy Tanks of World War II (New Vanguard, Volume 216)
This identify explores the perception and layout of quite a number huge, immense and strong tanks that got here to be exact as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of worldwide warfare II have been heirs to the siege desktop culture - a way of breaking the impasse of floor strive against. As a category of combating motor vehicle, they begun with the area battle I notion of the quest for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to move enemy strains.
The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain
This persuasive learn assaults the main myths surrounding the conflict of england to revise the relative prestige of maritime and aviation elements within the defence of england. with no denigrating the heroism of the fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming demanding situations the effectiveness of the Royal Air strength in 1940 and offers the Royal army a lot larger prominence than others have.
Arming the Two Koreas: State, Capital and Military Power (Politics in Asia Series)
North Korea has characteristically been obvious as militarily greater to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued booklet faucets right into a good deal of reports curiosity in North Korea in the meanwhile within the wake of contemporary hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially exhibits that the obtained suggestion of Koreas army energy is partially a fable created via South Korea to justify a tremendous programme of rearmament.
Extra info for Tiger Tanks at War
Example text
Eaton was unable to pursue him there because harems were considered sacred and all the Arabs would have turned against him. Mustafa eventually escaped and waited for Hassen’s reinforcement army. Eaton prepared for a formidable counter-attack. The Marines fortified the fort and their Arab allies occupied the plain near the town. Within four days, Hassen Bey and his 3,000 enemy Arabs appeared, the Beys of Bengazi and Oznan and Hadgi Ismain commanding their cavalry. Hassen attacked on May 13, on both sides of the river valley.
He and two other officials were later returned and paroled. The American ships were loaded with the captured munitions. The Andrea Doria received 4,780 shot and shells to replace her stone ballast which was dumped on shore. Hopkins set up a triangle on the capital parade ground where inhabitants could make complaints against any of his men, who were punished immediately if found guilty. His courts martial were short and decisive with the number of lashes few but very severely given. The Marines captured a total of 46 iron cannon, 140 hand grenades, 9,831 rounds of shot, 154 bolts of double-headed shot (a high-tech munition used for cutting rigging), 11 canisters of grape, two mortars, 24 barrels of powder, 220 gun carriages and 355 British pounds sterling.
Recruiting officers were expected to do everything—provide housing, rations, laundry, uniforms, arms, interviews by surgeon, measures, registration, muster rolls, size rolls, pay rolls, clothing returns, drilling and discipline and “Marining” a ship. The complexion of each recruit was well observed. The color of his eyes and hair and any marks on his body were noted on the muster roll. He also had to give up his civilian clothing. All this was done in case of desertion—so they would have a thorough description with which to hunt him down.