The vehicles we know today as tanks emerged on a grand scale at the beginning of the 20th century, right before the First World War. In 1900, Britain commissioned steam-engine manufacturer John Fowler ...
Most armoured cars in the Second World War were built to do one thing: see the enemy first and run away fast. Lightly armoured, thin-skinned, and outgunned, they were scouts, not fighters. But Britain ...
The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...