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The Ironclads of Cambrai - The First Great Tank Battle (Paperback, New edition)
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The Ironclads of Cambrai - The First Great Tank Battle (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
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The British Army was the first to use tanks, employing a handful of
early models during the closing stages of the Battle of the Somme,
September 1916. But it was over a year later that the first mass
tank attack demonstrated just what a revolutionary weapon this was.
On 20th November 1917, just as the bloody slaughter at
Passchendaele reached stalemate, the British flung 378 tanks at the
German trenches at Cambrai. They overran the whole position in a
morning. The victory was so incredible that church bells were
sounded throughout the British Isles. However, the subsequent
German counter-attack was successful. The British ran out of
reserves and the frontline was retaken. Yet Cambrai anticipated the
events of 1918: the Germans had no answer to the British Army's new
weapon and new artillery tactics. No subsequent British offensive
failed to take its objectives.
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