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Band of Brigands - The First Men in Tanks (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind
of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War One: the
British pioneer volunteers who were the first tank-men into battle.
Inspired by a visit to northeast France to witness the excavation
of a remarkably intact First World War tank from beneath a suburban
vegetable plot near the town of Cambrai, Christy Campbell -- then
defence correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph -- began to piece
together the little-known story of the young men who formed the
British Tank Corps. Very few of them had been professional
soldiers; they were motoring enthusiasts and mechanics, plumbers,
motorcyclists, circus performers and polar explorers. One officer
declared: 'I have never seen such a band of brigands in my life.'
They had trained in conditions of great secrecy in the grounds of a
mock-oriental stately home in East Anglia and were originally known
as the 'Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps'. The word 'tank' itself
was deliberately chosen to mislead. Men in tanks saw the face of
battle at its most brutal.Their task was to crush and burn the
enemy out of his fortifications, and to carve a path for the
infantry so they could finish the job with bayonet and grenade.
Captured tank crews were beaten up or sometimes shot out of hand by
the Germans. They fought in their stifling armoured boxes packed
with petrol and explosives, aware that at any moment a shell-hit
might incinerate them all. Christy Campbell has combed contemporary
diaries and letters and later recollections to tell properly for
the first time the robust yet harrowing story of how the first men
in tanks went to war. The time frame is 1916-18, with a coda on how
German blitzkrieg ideas developed from an English root.
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