Panzer manuals - what is available?

[Fe 26]

I recently purchased a copy of Panzerkampfwagenbuch (original, not reprint) and it got me thinking. What exactly is available now? Reprinted or original? pdf?

I know that http://www.digitalhistoryarchive.com/ has pdf copies of both the British School of Tank Technology Foreign Vehicle Reports and what looks like a disk of German manual pdfs (can't confirm because I do not own the disk, nor does he list the German manual titles).

http://www.tigertank-h-e-181.com has a couple manuals (with what looks like some new additions and restoration work done to the pages).

http://www.rueckblick-verlag.de/ has a reprint of Panzerkampfwagenbuch, but I can't speak for its quality as I do not own it. Nor do I know if they mail outside of germany.

http://panzerivuniverse.phelpscomput...om/Default.htm has some scans of Technical Manual D 653/21a


http://www.superborg.de/d640.htm has a pretty good list of manuals, but it doesn't appear that many of them are currently for sale.

[Fe 26]

I guess for the sake of completion, there is also the new Haynes Tiger tank manual and reprints of tiger / panther fibels. Both very common and easy to find.

EDIT:

I guess you can't bring up new material without mentioning the two books by http://www.theresearchsquad.com on the Tiger and Panther.

[nomis]

Manuals

Just to note, whilst being very interesting, the 'Haynes Manual' is a general over-view of 131 and Tiger development and The Research Squad Tiger Project book is still not published and looks less and less like it ever will be.

SF.

[Fe 26]

Yes, the Haynes Manual isn't really a true Haynes Manual. You could never use it to repair a tiger. It is a nice consolidated source info however, unlike many other ww2 tank books that simply reprint the same stats that are easily found online.

Thanks for the information on the http://www.theresearchsquad.com Tiger book. I was wondering why the website never had a 'check out' link for it.

[nomis]

Tiger Project

I communicated many times with Brian at the RS and his book was sounding VERY interesting , including a couple of 501st vets input on top of the photo study of 712 and diagrams / text.

Maybe if more of those interested likewise made contact it might inject more enthusiasm to complete the project.
Last I was told, it was nearly ready to go to print but the proof-read highlighted corrections required.
That was probably 18 months ago now.

SF.

[Wally63]

Have a look here
http://www.wh-dienstvorschriften.de/WHDV_Start.html
He has very good copies

[Fe 26]

Recently purchased "D 652/41

Gepanzerte Selbstfahrlafette für Sturmgeschütz 7,5 cm Kanone, Ausführung A bis E und 7,5 cm Sturmgeschütz 40, Ausführung F, Gerätebeschreibung und Bedienungsanweisung zum Fahrgestell, Vom 1.4.43"

Does anyone know of a place to buy or download a scanned copy? Before I go to the trouble of scanning it myself?

[leaftree]

Tigerfibel/Tiger manual...

Here is a web page with scans of the Tigerfibel or Tiger manual.
Not sure if this has been posted before, but I bumped into this while researching something completely different thought it might be interesting for some.

http://paijmans.net/Tanks/Tigerfibel/