In 1938 and 1939, it became increasingly apparent to both the British military and to the world that a major European war was imminent. As a stop-gap measure, the Covenanter tank was built in large ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

One serious drawback to the Crusader’s design was the turret. In order to incorporate a larger main gun into a smaller turret, the Crusader’s turret was polygonal, which maximized internal volume.

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 ...

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