Tank Action: From the Great War to the Gulf - George Forty - hardcover 18C15 the Jarama

the Jarama

newspaper correspondents

A very interesting publication

numerous line drawings

Tank Action: From the Great War to the Gulf - George Forty - hardcover 18C15 the JaramaThe technology that separates the lumbering Heavy Mk I tank of 1916 from the Challenger main battle tank of 1994 may be aeons apart, but the basic skills of the tank commander have remained unchanged. Whether the scenario is the first tank versus tank engagement at Villers Bretonneux in 1918, or the decimation of Iraqi armour by Allied tanks in the Gulf War of 1991, the perennial qualities of efficiency, bravery, quick wittedness and initiative still