Armoured warfare in the First World War, 1916-1918 rare photographs from wartime archives
"A hundred years ago, on 15 September 1916, on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the tank made its debut on the battlefield. The first tanks were crude, unreliable, vulnerable weapons, but they changed the charcater of land warfare forever, and [this] photographic history of the...
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Pen & Sword Military
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Images of war
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "A hundred years ago, on 15 September 1916, on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the tank made its debut on the battlefield. The first tanks were crude, unreliable, vulnerable weapons, but they changed the charcater of land warfare forever, and [this] photographic history of these pioneering armoured vehicles is the ideal introduction to them. ... [He] offers a fascinating insight into the difficult early days of this innovative new weapon, descibing its technical history and its performance in combat. While the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 is often held up as the first large-scale tank battle, tanks had already served at Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, during the Nivelle offensive and the Battles of Messines and Passchendaele."--Back cover Introducton: Germany's downfall -- 1. 'Little Willie" and 'Mother' -- 2. Male and female -- 3. Heavy or light? -- 4. First blood at Flers -- 5. French heavies at Berry-au-Bac -- 6. Trapped at Passchendaele -- 7. Fortress Cambrai -- 8. The Allies strike -- 9. Tank versus tank: Villers-Bretonneux -- 10. Results at Soissons -- 11. Amiens sledgehammer -- 12. St. Mihiel debut |
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| Beschreibung: | 144 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781473872981 978-1-4738-7298-1 1473872987 1-4738-7298-7 |