Download e-book for iPad: Armoured Warfare in the First World War: Rare Photographs by Anthony Tucker-Jones

By Anthony Tucker-Jones

100 years in the past, on 15 September 1916, at the Western entrance through the conflict of the Somme, the tank made its debut at the battlefield. the 1st tanks have been crude, unreliable, susceptible guns, yet they replaced the nature of land war endlessly, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic historical past of those pioneering armored automobiles is the fitting creation to them.

In a variety of over a hundred and fifty archive images he deals a desirable perception into the tricky early days of this cutting edge new weapon, describing its technical historical past and its functionality in strive against. whereas the conflict of Cambrai in 1917 is frequently held up because the first large-scale tank conflict, tanks had already served at Flers-Courcelette at the Somme, through the Nivelle offensive and the battles of Messines and Passchendaele.

His booklet indicates that the advance of the tank used to be fraught with technical stumbling blocks and battlefield setbacks. It was once invented by means of the British and the French at virtually an identical time to aid holiday the impasse of trench war, and the British deployed it first in 1916. Belatedly the Germans the British and French instance. The preliminary designs have been always sophisticated in the course of years of extreme war. discovering the precise stability among energy and weight, getting the armament correct, and dealing out the easiest strategies for tanks at the battlefield used to be a tough, frequently lethal business.

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