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Tanks in the Great War

1920

THE following work is the story of a great and unique adveture as heroic as the exploits of the Argonauts of old and though the time perhaps has not yet arrived wherein to judge the part played by tanks in the Great War I feel that whatever may be the insight and judgment of the eventual historian of the British Tank Corps he will proably lack that essential ingredient of all true histor [...] In the former the forward portion of the track was inclined and suggests the contour of the track as applied to the front of tanks. [...] Thus at the battle of the Dunajec in the spring of 1915 the fire of Mackensen's massed artillery smashed the Russian front ; this success being due as much to the fewness of the Russian guns as to the skill of that great soldier At the Second Battle of Ypres the German surprise gas attack succeeded because the British and French possessed no antidote. [...] Churchill's resignation from the Admiralty the production of the twelve pedrail cars was abandoned in spite of the fact that the engines and most of the material had been provided."MAJOR WILSON'S DESIGN os The design work was however continued under the diretion of the Landships Committee " and a little later on caterpillar tractors for experimental purposes were obtained from America. [...] After the formation of the " Joint Naval and Military Committees" on June 15 it was agreed as the result of corespondence between the Admiralty and War Office that the experimental work on the landship should be taken over as a definite military service in the department of the Master-General of Ordnance.
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Pages
365
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144392
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxiv J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter I The Origins of the Tank
1-17 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter II The Invention of the Landship
18-34 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter III Mechanical Characteristics of Tanks
35-48 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter IV The Mark I Tank and its Tactics
49-53 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter V The Battles of the Somme and Ancre
54-59 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter VI The Growth of the Tank Corps Organisation
60-67 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter VII Tank “Esprit De Corps”
68-72 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter VIII Tank Tactics
73-80 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter IX The Battle of Arras
81-89 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter X Tank Battle Records
90-97 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XI The Second Battle of Gaza
98-102 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XII Staff Work and Battle Preparation
103-107 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XIII The Battle of Messines
108-112 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XIV A Tactical Appreciation
113-116 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XV The Third Battle of Ypres
117-124 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XVI Thank Mechanical Engineering
125-129 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XVII The Third Battle of Gaza
130-134 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XVIII Origins of the Battle of Cambrai
135-139 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XIX The Battle of Cambrai
140-153 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XX An Infantry Appreciation of Tanks
154-158 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXI The Tank Corps Trainig Centre
159-165 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXII The Tank Supply Companies
166-171 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXIII The Second Bettle of the Somme
172-177 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXIV Tank Signalling Organisation
178-183 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXV The French Tank Corps
184-198 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXVI Preparations for the Great Offensive
199-203 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXVII The Battle of Hamel and Moreuil
204-211 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXVIII German Tank Operations
212-216 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXIX The Battle of Amiens
217-229 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXX The Fight of a Whippet Tank
230-235 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXI German Appreciation of Bettle Tanks
236-241 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXII Aeroplane Co-Operation With Tanks
242-249 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXIII The Battle of Bapaume and the Second Battle of Arras
250-259 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXIV German Anti-Tank Tactics
260-265 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXV The Battles of Epehy and Cambrai—st Quentin
266-276 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXVI The U.S.A. Tank Corps
277-282 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXVII The Battle of the Selle and Maubeuge
283-288 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXVIII The 17th Tank Armmoured Car Battalion
289-296 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XXXIX A Rerospect of What Tank have Accomplished
297-307 J.F.C. Fuller view
Chapter XL A Forecast of What Tanks May Do
308-322 J.F.C. Fuller view
Index
323-324 J.F.C. Fuller view

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