Dimensions
132 x 199 x 23mm
The First Great Tank Battle.
On 20 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.
Despite the subsequent German counter-attack being successful, Cambrai anticipated the events of 1918: the Germans had no answer to the British Army's new weapon and new artillery tactics.
Bryan Cooper's vivid account of the first great tank battle is based on eyewitness reports and interviews with survivors.
