Название: Tank Battles of World War I
Автор: Bryan Cooper
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473825628
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 11,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so costly in human life as that of our military commanders early in 1916 to appreciate that the tank was a war winning weapon. The slaughter of the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres salient had to be endured before accepted ‘conventional’ methods were abandoned and the tank given a chance.