On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second
World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of
combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary
rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank warfare was transformed.
This is the dramatic process that Simon and Jonathan Forty
chronicle in this heavily illustrated history. They describe the
fundamentals of pre-war tank design and compare the theories
formulated in the 1930s as to how they should be used in battle.
Then they show how the harsh experience of the German blitzkrieg
campaigns in Poland, France and the Soviet Union compelled the
Western Allies to reconsider their equipment, organization and
tactics - and how the Germans responded to the Allied challenge.
The speed of progress is demonstrated in the selection of over 180
archive photographs which record, as only photographs can, the
conditions of war on each battle front. They also give a vivid
impression of what armoured warfare was like for the tank crews of
75 years ago.
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