Osprey New Vanguard 5 Tiger 1 Heavy Tank 1942 - 45 ISBN 1-85532-337-0
Tom Jentz & Hilary Doyle, Illustrated by Peter Sarson

This 48 page book follows the usual osprey format of good B & W images and text that easy to read and understand. This book covers the Tiger 1 through its design and development, with some B & W images of the VK36.01 and VK45.01 and also 1/76th scale side plan of the VK36.01, VK45.01 and Pz VI (7.5 cm L/70) Ausf H2. The production Modifications chapter covers month-by-month main changes to the Tiger production run, with a table showing how many Tigers were produced and delivered. The Operational History chapter gives each of the Panzer Abteilung and the SS Panzer Abteilung a brief history. The usual 8 centre pages are of colour artworks covering the PzAbt. 502, near Leningrad January 1943 in panzer grey. PzAbt. 501, Tunisia November 1942 in an olive green?
SS-PzRgt. 2 ‘Das Reich’, Russia 1943 in Olive green with Brown strips. sPzAbt. 502, Russia 1943 in 3-colour camo. sPzAbt. 508 Italy 1943 in a 3-colour camo. sPzAbt. 506, Russia 1943 in a winter camo. sPzAbt. 509, Russia 1943 in a 3-colour camo. sPzAbt. 505, Russia 1944 in a winter camo. The 2 centre pages have an excellent colour cut away of a steel wheel Tiger of sPzAbt. 101 in Normandy 1944. The last chapter of the book give a history for each of the colour plates, witch also supplements the brief history in the Operational History.

Conclusion
This is a excellent companion to go with the Achung Panzer VI book, as it covers most of what is in Japanese in the Achung Panzer. As with all the New Vanguard books it is a good referance book, and being well priced is a good starter book as mine was.

Obtained from F and S Scale Models.