First World War Tanks

E. Bartholomew was formerly the Education Officer and Assistant Librarian at the Tank Museum and now works for the National Railway Museum, York. This book makes extensive use of material from the museum's collections, which contain a wide range of documents, technical manuals, handbooks, reports and illustrations.
Although tanks have become a symbol of military power, the first tanks were created as a temporary solution to the deadlock created by trench warfare. The early designs were unsophis