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Armoured Warfare in the First World War 1916-18 (Images of War) Kindle Edition

by Anthony Tucker-Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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 character of land warfare forever, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history of these pioneering armored vehicles is the ideal introduction to them. In a selection of over 150 archive photographs he offers a fascinating insight into the difficult early days of this innovative new weapon, describing 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. His book shows that the development of the tank was fraught with technical obstacles and battlefield setbacks. It was invented by the British and the French at almost the same time to help break the deadlock of trench warfare, and the British deployed it first in 1916. Belatedly the Germans followed the British and French example. The initial designs were continuously refined during two years of intense warfare. Finding the right balance between power and weight, getting the armament right, and working out the best tactics for tanks on the battlefield was a tricky, often deadly business.
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    Pen & Sword Military
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    November 30, 2016
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Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defense intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armored and aerial warfare. He is the author of over thirty books, is security and terrorism correspondent for intersec – The Journal of International Security, and has freelanced for Channel 4 News.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MZYRZKC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Military (November 30, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 30, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 38.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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Anthony's Churchill Cold War Warrior was published by Frontline in July 2024 and will be launched in America with the Churchill Society of New Orleans and at the US National WWII Museum at the end of the year. The International Churchill Society says, 'Anthony Tucker-Jones’ latest book is very much like The Godfather: Part III in its grand narrative of scale, irony, and tragedy. … it is a tremendous read.'

He is a highly successful military historian and defence writer. The author of over 60 books, many of which have been translated into Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Polish, Russian and Swedish. Always in demand he has worked with Arcturus, Bloomsbury, Greenhill, Frontline, Osprey, Pen & Sword, Stackpole and The History Press.

Anthony has also had over 500 articles and features published in print and online with numerous publications and outlets, including the UK's leading History of War magazine. For many years he was the terrorism and security correspondent for intersec - The Journal of International Security and freelanced for the UK's Channel 4 News. He holds a bachelors in history and a masters in international relations and strategic studies.

Among his bestsellers are Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941-1945, Kursk 1943: Voices from the Battlefield and D-Day 1944: The Making of Victory. Recent books include Churchill Master and Commander, Hitler's Winter and the Fall of Berlin.

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  • Thorsten Brand
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    Reviewed in Germany on October 24, 2017
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    Ich kenne mich einigermaßen mit den Fahrzeugen des ersten Weltkrieges aus und habe einige Bücher darüber. "Armoured Warfare" bietet wenig neues, die meisten Bilder wurden bereits anderswo gezeigt. Allerdings ist es für Neueinsteiger und den Durchschnittsmodellbauer besonders irreführend: Wer erwartet, dass z.B. im Kapitel über Cambrai auch Bilder von dieser Schlacht oder wenigstens den dort eingesetzten Fahrzeugen gezeigt werden, der irrt. Von den gerade mal 5 Bildern dieses Kapitels, welche tatsächlich Panzer zeigen, bilden nur 2 den dort eingesetzten Typ Mark IV ab, eines davon auch noch in einer viel späteren und deutlich unterschiedlichen Bemalung bei einer Übung. Die übrigen Bilder zeigen entweder den späteren Typ Mark V oder Luftaufnahmen oder Soldaten. Gerade im Kapitel über diese wichtige Schlacht hätte ich deutlich mehr erwartet.

    Sinnvoll einordnen kann man die Bilder nur, wenn man sich mit der materie schon gut auskennt, und dann hat man die Bilder schon anderweitig.
    Für neueinsteiger würde ich eher zur Osprey New-Vanguard Reihe raten, auch wenn dort die Bildqualität etwas schlechter ist. Dafür ist dort die Bildzuordnung gut und man bekommt mehr Information.
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