Germany was unusually slow to realise and develop a tank, considering that in 1916, the British and the French had introduced ...

Ten tanks were written off. None were recovered, and nothing was achieved at all. NARRATOR: Appalled by the debacle at Passchendaele, the British High Command was on the point of abandoning these ...

All of the five British troops who had attacked the trench ... But next week — to the delight of service personnel everywhere — tank-chasing “human rights advocate” Phil Shiner will ...

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...

However, the war in Ukraine has changed this situation. Unfortunately, from the British perspective, their tanks often seem to encounter problems even when moving efficiently across Ukrainian ...

Two young British privates killed in World War One have ... the Battle of Cambrai - which marked the first large-scale use of tanks. Margot Bains, from Lincolnshire, was traced as a relative ...

with almost 400 fighting tanks that advanced without any prior bombardment so the enemy had no warning." After advancing for about six miles, the British were halted and later the Germans launched ...