The tank was born to break the deadlock of World War I's Western Front, where trench-based defence in depth, barbed wire, machine guns and artillery, led to immense loss of life. Initially dogged by mechanical unreliability and early misuse, post-First World War development of technology and tactics saw the Germans open World War II with the devastating Blitzkrieg in which armoured divisions led the way. Tanks dominated the battlefields' of World War II and have continued to develop, reaching their peak with the so called "Main battle tanks": of the biggest military-industrial complexes: the US Abrams, German Leopard, British Challenger, Israeli Merkava and Russian T90.Today, in a world of asymmetric warfare, tanks may dominate the battlefield, but infantry rocket weapons and anti-tank helicopters have evened things up and ensure that tanks must develop further to meet changing threats. In The History of Tanks about the changing face of tank warfare through the 50 most important, iconic vehicles from 1914 to today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations and Parts of a tank
- No I Lincoln Machine (‘Little Willie’) 1915
- Mark I (‘Mother’) 1916
- Mark IV/Mark V 1917
- Renault FT 17 1918
- A7V Sturmpanzerwagen 1918
- BT series 1931
- Char B1-bis 1936
- Sd Kfz 101 PzKpfw I 1934
- Sd Kfz 121 PzKpfw II 1935
- Mark VI 1936
- Sd Kfz 141 PzKpfw III 1937
- Sd Kfz 161 PzKpfw IV 1938
- A11 Matilda I and A12 Matilda II 1938
- KV series 1940
- A22 Mk IV Churchill 1941
- M3/M5 Stuart 1941
- M3 General Lee/General Grant 1941
- T-34 series 1941
- M4 Sherman 1942
- Sd Kfz 181 PzKpfw VI Tiger Ausf H and Sd Kfz 182 Tiger Ausf B 1942
- A27M Cruiser Mk VIII Cromwell 1943
- JS series 1943
- Sd Kfz 171 PzKpfw V Panther 1943
- M24 Chaffee 1944
- M26 Pershing 1945
- A34 Comet 1945
- A41 Centurion 1946
- T-54/T-55 1950
- M47, M48 and M60 Patton 1952
- M41 Walker Bulldog 1953
- AMX 13 1954
- T-62 1963
- Leopard 1 1965
- M551 Sheridan 1966
- FV4201 Chieftain 1967
- Stridsvagn Strv 103 S-tank 1967
- Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) 1972
- T-72 1973
- Type 74 Nana-yon 1975
- T-80 1976
- Merkava 1978
- Leopard 2 1980
- M1 Abrams 1981
- Type 69/Type 79 1982
- Challenger 1983
- T-90 1991
- Type 90 Kyu-maru 1991
- AMX Leclerc 1992
- Type 99 2001
- K2 Black Panther 2014
- Copyright
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