Oliver Nugent was born on November 9 1860 at Aldershot. He was the son of Major-General St George Mervyn Nugent and Emily, ...

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 ...

Sue Radford appeared to get choked up as she made a tragic discovery about her family tree. 22 Kids and Counting couple Sue and Noel Radford decided they wanted to find out about their family history ...

The Battle of Cambrai, fought between 20 November and 7 December 1917, was the first battle in history involving the employment of tanks en masse. After a series of failures, largely due to the ...

Headline Welbeck has acquired Tank Command: How the Tank Changed the Face of Battle, a "gripping" book about the evolution of tank warfare by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon. Deputy publishing director ...

On this day in 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tonnes, got stuck in trenches and ...

A German-made Leopard 2 tank in action - Valda Kalnina/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The leaked report from the German Defence Ministry about the shortcomings of the Leopard 2 ...

A continuation of the massive official history of Britain's part in the campaigns of Western Europe during World War I, based on documents and prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of ...