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Cambrai 1917 - The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle (Hardcover)
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Cambrai 1917 - The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle (Hardcover)
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Cambrai was the last battle fought by the British on the Western
Front in 1917. With Russia out of the war, Italy on the brink of
collapse, and the French still reeling from the effects of
widespread mutiny, Britain was the only member of the Western
Allies still capable of holding the mighty German Army at bay. They
did so by taking the fight to the Germans in one of the greatest
turning point battles of twentieth-century warfare. At dawn on 20
November 1917, the British attacked the German lines with almost
400 tanks - the first ever mass use of this brand new weapon of
war. The Germans were taken completely by surprise and crumpled
beneath the blow. For a brief moment it looked as though a stunning
breakthrough had been achieved, and church bells rang out across
England in celebration. But the Germans were not defeated. Indeed,
they used their counterattack as an opportunity to pioneer their
own new 'stormtroop' tactics, and suddenly the British were in
disarray. In a series of bloody and terrifying reverses the British
were driven right back to their start lines. Over the decades many
myths have grown up about this iconic battle. For one thing, it was
not the tanks that most shocked the Germans at Cambrai at all, but
brilliant British innovations in artillery techniques. But such was
the potency of the tank myth that after the war it seduced generals
and historians on both sides, until the myth was finally brought to
reality in the mobile battles that engulfed Europe just thirty
years later. In this new look at one of the century's most
important battles, Bryn Hammond tells the story of what exactly
happened at the end of 1917, and how the myths that were created in
those tragic two weeks were to change the face of warfare forever.
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