A superb production sub-titled An Account of the First Use of Tanks in War at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Somme, 15th September 1916, in which the author sets out to make good what he perceives to be a gap in the recorded history of the Great War, a detailed account of the part played by the tanks on the day when they first went into action thus bringing a new dimension to the land battle.It is the result of years of meticulous research in the British and German archives and of walking and studying the battlefields, together with contemporary photos and personal recollections and original documents. The narrative begins with the genesis of the tank, its trials, selection and training of the crew before their arrival in France at the end of August 1916. Individual chapters are then devoted to the work of the tanks in each of the ten divisions with which they fought, and for each division there is a trench map, annotated in colour, showing the tank movements and the position of the British troops down to company level. At the end of each chapter is a Field Guide which takes the reader in the track of the tanks with directions of the utmost precision and clarity. There are superb aerial colour photos of the battlefields as they are today, taken by the author, and these, too, are annotated to pinpoint movements and positions. There are also colour photos of the inside and outside of the Mark 1 tank, supplied by the Tank Museum at Bovington. Everything about this book has the feel of quality and it is certainly one of the best that I have seen over years of preparing this book list. Highly recommended!

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Product Code:	7627
Author:	by Trevor Pidgeon.
ISBN:	0 9525175 2 3
Format:	1995. HB. 300 x 230 mm. A two volume set: Vol 1 contains 247 pp with 106 b/w and 40 colour photos. Vol 2 holds twelve fold-out trench maps A2 size, one 1:20,000 the others 1:10,000. Published Price £38
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