Tanks: A Century of Tank Warfare Paperback Book
Casemate Publishers
Today tanks are synonymous with the modern army; imposing, essential pieces of high-technology equipment, seemingly impregnable.\n\nBut how did the tank come into being, and how did it develop and influence conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries?\n\nWhy do different countries use tanks so differently in combat and what was the biggest tank-on-tank battle? The Casemate Short History of Tanks addresses all these questions and more in an informative and entertaining introduction to this iconic weapon of the last hundred years. Tanks first ventured into battle on the Somme in 1916, and by the end of the war countries were beginning to choose \""heavy\"" or \""light\"" tank designs to suit their preferred doctrine.\n\nDesign stagnated between the wars, until World War II brought about rapid change.\n\nTanks would prove integral to fighting in almost every theatre; the Germans swept across Europe using tanks to spearhead their blitzkrieg method of war, until Soviet tanks proved more than thei.
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