A great bibliography/notes section for the active reader too.The world's first tanks entered a battlefield on a chilly morning in September 1916, driven by the British forces. A great book for the new Flames of War/BattleGroup/Command Decision/Team Yankee/Red Storm Rising gamer, fresh from WarHammer, and wanting to familiarize themselves with Tank Battles, usage and theory. I think that such a general book is great for gamemaster/campaign runners to hand to gamers/modellers new to the Genre. For the gamer/modeller/military enthusiast- a delightful lay out of stuff to get more serious about later. But this is a complete smorgasbord.Īs you might expect, this would be a good first book on armour for the Junior reader, as young as a precocious 10. From here the reader/gamer can pick the era they want to study/game. But what this book is is a great STARTING point. The Vietnam and Arab Israeli sections cover familiar ground well- but I really appreciated the South Asian Content. I loved the time spent on the Indo-Pak wars of 1947, 1957, 1965, and 1971, a topic all too rarely covered or gamed in the West. He makes sure to give you the names of Armoured leaders of every country, often down to the Brigadier and Colonel level. He's making sure you get a little taste of every armoured war/campaign- and really working at letting you know WHO made armour history. When I finished, and felt that we had not gone into depth enough on any topic since the beginning, I realized what he was trying to do. But the author fully realizes the true scope if his subject- and we have to be off- whipping over a century of tracked and wheeled combat- touching on just about every example. There was even a brilliant diagram of Fuller's careful choreography for a three-tank platoon of Mark I tanks to clear a German trench system. When the book opens with a bit of time taken on the creation of the Royal Tank Corpsin WWI, the font from which all other tank units splash forth, and their first leaders Swinton, Elles and Fuller, I thought we were in for an in-depth study. George Forty takes the reader on a break neck tour of armoured warfare up to Gulf War II, in 1991. A very enjoyable book on an interesting topic.
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