It made me wonder what was being dismissed by conservative militaries in the present day. It was fascinating to read that every army dismissed the concept of such a vehicle and universally preferred horses instead. "The writer" (as he likes to refer to himself in the text) starts with the early pre-WWI prototypes of military tracked vehicles based on agricultural tractors. However, its extensive technical detail is probably not for the casual reader. I like tanks and so found this book really interesting. Professor Ogorkiewicz has worked in the field of armoured vehicle development since the 1970s, and this is a serious, analytical study on the history of tank development and armoured warfare. The enhanced capabilities that tanks consequently acquired enabled them to become the core of combined-arms, mechanized formations. The subsequent rise of the importance of armoured vehicles was accompanied by and was partly due to the advances in their design and performance achieved in Europe and America before World War II. However, this was not sustained in its immediate aftermath and a revival only began when the British Army started in to experiment in the 1920s with a more mobile use of tanks. By the end of that conflict tanks had gained considerable importance. Tank presents a comprehensive account of the world-wide evolution of armoured vehicles from their inception a century ago to the present day, starting with a detailed reappraisal of the development of tanks and how they evolved during World War I.
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