Tiger I and Tiger II Tucker-Jones Anthony
The German Tiger I and Tiger II (known to the Allies as the King Tiger or Royal Tiger ) were the most famous and formidable heavy tanks of the Second World War. In their day, their awesome reputation…
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The German Tiger I and Tiger II (known to the Allies as the King Tiger or Royal Tiger ) were the most famous and formidable heavy tanks of the Second World War. In their day, their awesome reputation inspired such apprehension among Allied soldiers that the weaknesses of these brilliant but flawed designs tended to be overlooked. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this illustrated history, tells the story of their conception and development and reconsiders their operational history, and he dispels the legends and misunderstandings that have grown up around them.The Tigers were over-engineered, required raw materials that were in short supply, were time-consuming to manufacture and difficult to recover from the battlefield. Only around 1,300 of the Tiger I and fewer than 500 of the Tiger II were produced, so they were never going to make anything more than a local impact on the outcome of the
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