This highly illustrated survey gives a fascinating insight into the recent evolution of the British tank and its role in the postwar world. The engineers’ tanks - the flails, recovery vehicles, bridge-layers - are featured, as are the less-well-known British tanks made for export. All the British tanks that have seen service since the war are depicted, among them the Conqueror, Chieftain, Centurion and Challenger.

He describes its origins in Britain and its development and deployment in the Second World War and in the post-war period. DecemTimeline: 100 years of tanks The first tanks rolled across a battlefield on the morning of 15 September 1916, when British forces attacked the positions of the German 28th Reserve Infantry Regiment at FlersCourcelette with 32 tanks in an effort to break the stalemate on the Somme. Using a selection of contemporary photographs - supported by some modern photographs of preserved vehicles - Pat Ware sets the modern tank in a historical context. Fewer types of tank were built than during the wartime period, but the complexity of design and manufacture increased, and a level of technical sophistication in the key areas of armor, firepower and mobility was beyond the imaginings of the tank pioneers of the First World War. Modern British Tanks and Fighting Equipment by Chamberlain (1970, Paperback) Fast and reliable.

In this companion volume to British Tanks: The Second World War, Pat Ware provides an expert introduction to the design, production and operation of British tanks since 1945.

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