After the first tank appearances at the Somme in 1916 revealed severe mechanical limits, British planners continued refining armored warfare as a solution to trench stalemate. Nearly 476 tanks were ...
THE air is choking hot, thick with fumes – and the noise is deafening. Eight men in a dark steel box the size of a Ford Transit, six machine guns hammering away, spent cases rattling across the floor.
THE air is choking hot, thick with fumes – and the noise is deafening. Eight men in a dark steel box the size of a Ford Transit, six machine guns hammering away, spent cases rattling across the floor.
Since their debut at the Somme in 1916, the new wonder weapons had proved a little less wonderful than hoped—prone to frequent breakdowns, “ditching” or getting swamped in mud, and with limited range ...
Il y a plus d’un siècle était signé l’armistice mettant un terme à la Première Guerre mondiale. Ambiance à Cambrai à cette époque. Les troupes alliées entrant dans Cambrai. Malgré ces événements ...
Recommended: Why Doesn’t America Kill Kim Jong Un? At dawn on November 20, 1917, it was business as usual on the Western Front. Snug in their Hindenburg Line fortifications near the northern French ...
A museum is set to open in the French village of Flesquières to mark the centenary of the Battle of Cambrai. The structure was specially built to house a British tank battered in battle in 1917. A ...
Le 9 octobre 1918, la ville de Cambrai était libérée. Alors que tout le Cambrésis se souvient, à l’occasion du centenaire, nous consacrons une série d’articles aux quatre années de guerre dans la cité ...
EACH month archivist Steve Berridge transcribes the war diary and regimental chronicle of the 2nd Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. This month he is focusing on the ...
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