Tag Posted 22 March , 2006 Share Posted 22 March , 2006 Can any one suggest any good books on the Tanks of the Great War? I am interested in first hand accounts or personal memoirs. Thanks...Tag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Banning Posted 22 March , 2006 Share Posted 22 March , 2006 Can any one suggest any good books on the Tanks of the Great War? I am interested in first hand accounts or personal memoirs. Thanks...Tag You can't go far wrong with 'Tanks and Trenches' by David Fletcher. ISBN: 1856279065 Has first hand accounts from all the major battles that tanks were used in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 22 March , 2006 Share Posted 22 March , 2006 Also: "The Boilerplate War" by John Foley "The Ironclads of Cambrai" by Bryan Cooper 0304363634 "The Tanks at Flers" by Trevor Pidgeon 0952517523 Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta Posted 22 March , 2006 Share Posted 22 March , 2006 Tank Warfare by Francis Mitchell (commander of the first tank invovled in a tank v tank action) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham-McAdam Posted 22 March , 2006 Share Posted 22 March , 2006 ..and "Following the Tanks - Cambrai 1917" by Gibot & Gorczynski. Perhaps trickier to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Moore Posted 27 March , 2006 Share Posted 27 March , 2006 Useful memoirs include: Tanks 1914-1918, The Log-Book of a Pioneer by Lt. Col. Sir Albert G. Stern, available in reprint from the N&M Press - Stern was a well-connected insider, involved from the initiation of the tank idea, who organized their mass production, and vigourously championed their cause within the military-political bureaucracy. Eyewitness, by Maj. Gen. Ernest D. Swinton (1932) - an account by an early tank proponent, and first commander of the Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps. Full of anecdotes and details about the early days of the tanks. Indiscretions of a Warden, by Basil L.Q. Henriques (1937) - includes a chapter recounting his participation as a tank commander at the battle of Flers-Courcelette. A Company of Tanks by Maj W.H.L. Watson - a Tank Corps officer at Bullecourt. I would echo the previous recommendation of Tanks and Trenches by David Fletcher - an extensive compilation of first-person battle stories drawn from old editions of the Royal Tank Corps journal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landsturm Posted 27 March , 2006 Share Posted 27 March , 2006 Kenneth Macksey`s Tank versus Tank: The Illustrated Story of Armoured Battlefield Conflict in the Twentieth Century covers also WW2 and after, but has very good section of WW1. Includes colored battle scenes, technical illustrations, statistics etc. I have found it as a good reference book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 27 March , 2006 Share Posted 27 March , 2006 For a German perspective, there is the excellent 'The German A7V Tank and the Captured British Mark IV Tanks of World War 1.' (ISBN 085429788X) Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poro Posted 7 July , 2006 Share Posted 7 July , 2006 The Tank Museum in Bovington has what it calls "one of the largest collections of publications on armoured warfare and associated subjects in the world". They also have a shop you can order books from. Incidentally, if you're ever near the place, it's well worth a visit. It has the largest collection of tanks in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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