An insight into the history, development, production and role

of the most feared battle tank of the Second World War Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger | Ausf. E (SdKfz 181)

--- TABLE DES MATIERES / CONTENTS --- Contents Foreword The Maybach Engine The vexed question of paint 81 Restoration: the volunteer's view 84 Running the Tiger Driving Tiger 131 90 Engine start-up procedure 91 Driving the Tiger 92 Wheel and track maintenance 93 = The engine and auxiliaries 96 Introduction | 109 | Firepower E . The Tiger Story Tiger gunnery 110 The pioneers 14 Procedures for aiming and firing the gun 123 The rivals 17 VK 45.01 18 | || || Fighting the Tiger Production 20 : | Fahrgestell Nummer and the Units that used Tigers 130 Waffen Prüfungsamt 21 Communications 132 Building Tigers 22 Tactics 134 From factory to front line 23 Tiger mobility 137 Enter Tiger 131 24 Repair and maintenance 140 Tiger variants 28 Living with the Tiger 147 EM [The Travels of Tiger 131 J [ Last of the Tigers Battle damage — David Schofield 36 What happened to the other Tigers? 152 = What chance of owning a Tiger? 153 Anatomy of the Tiger Buying a Tiger 157 General layout a4 Tiger | — statistics 46 Appendix Looking around the vehicle 47 7 | Water Tiger — submersion and wading 52 Surviving Tigers 158 Zimmerit 62 Bibliography 161 [] | [Restore to Running Order [162 | Index The reason why 66…