12 pages of full color illustrations depicting over 20 different
vehicles and their markings, including the histories of the Panzer units
that operated the Tiger I and Tiger II in the last months of the war on
the Eastern Front.
By the first weeks of 1945, the Eastern Front had been pushed back to
the Carpathian mountain passes in the south and Warsaw on the Vistula
River in the center, while in the north, the German army was fighting in
East Prussia. The Wehrmacht's armored and mobile formations were now
employed exclusively as fire brigades, rushed from one crisis to the
next as the Red Army pushed inexorably westward. Critical to the German
defense were the army's heavy Panzer battalions whose Tiger tanks, with
their 8.8 cm guns, were almost invincible on the open plains of central
Europe.
In his latest book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses archive
photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the
Tiger tanks and units of the German Army and Waffen-SS heavy Panzer
battalions that struggled to resist the onslaught of Soviet armor during
the last days of the conflict which culminated in the battle for Berlin.
A key section of his book displays available model kits and aftermarket
products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and
painted models in various scales. Technical details as well as
modifications introduced during production and in the field are also
examined providing everything the modeler needs to recreate an accurate
representation of these historic tanks.
