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|  | | The Tiger Project: Volume 1: Alfred Rubbel - s.Pz.Abt. (Tiger) 503
The memoirs of German Tiger tank officer Alfred Rubbel. Rubbel served on the Eastern Front during World War II in one of the most feared tanks in military history.
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This book is the first in a proposed series that will delve into the inner workings of Germany's most fearsome panzers of the Second World War, the Tiger and Tiger II. There are many current books that deal with various aspects of the Tiger series of tanks, but few include more than minimal biographical information of the men who crewed these battlefield behemoths. Based mainly on interviews, personal diaries, and recollections, the series will present the German Tiger and King Tiger crewmen as soldiers who had the opportunity to serve as a member of a crew and units | |  | | The Tiger Project: Volume 2: Horst Kronke - s.Pz.Abt. 505
Horst Kronke served in German armor units, eventually transferring into schwere Panzer Abteilung 503 as the commander of a Tiger tank. Ultimately he transferred into s.Pz.Abt. 505 - another Tiger unit, where he served with his brother on the Eastern Front until the end of the war.
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As with the first book in this series covering the experiences of Alfred Rubbel (see page 55), this second book is strictly the story of one man: Horst Kronke. The story combines the experiences of Kronke with approximately 400 photographs (most which are unpublished), hand-drawn maps, and original documents, to tell the story of a veteran of Germany's elite panzerwaffe and feared Tiger tanks. His initial experience was in training with Panzer Ersatz Abteilung 5. From there he was assigned to Panzer Regiment 6, of the 3rd Panzer Division and experienced the opening o |
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