Fighting Tigers in Italy: First Hand Accounts of Tanks in Combat

Examines the feared German Tiger tank, its strengths and weaknesses, and Allied encounters from North Africa to Italy.

Of all the tanks in the German arsenal the Tiger was perhaps the one most feared, certainly by the Western Allies from the time they first encountered it in North Africa to the end of the war in Europe. This was no small feat for a tank of which only 1,347 were produced out of a total German tank production of around 27,000 tanks. This is not surprising given that it was arm...