Abstract
THIS remarkable book is a clear and straight-forward history of how the British Army learnt to use the most revolutionary weapon the great war produced. It is written by a confirmed believer in that weapon, whose belief probably became more and more complete as the Tank Corps gradually grasped a few of the principles involved in its use. It is somewhat of a pity that the author does not devote a chapter to the process by which the Tank Corps arrived at the tactics which eventually proved so successful. It took something like two years to overcome the prejudices raised against tanks in official quarters, and this in war-time, when progress is relatively rapid compared with that in peace. It is therefore to be hoped that the principles so ably set forth by Col. Fuller, and so well proved in the late war, will never again be overlooked.
Tanks in the Great War, 1914–1918.
By Brevet-Col. J. F. C. Fuller. Pp. xxiv + 331 + Vii plates. (London: John Murray, 1920.) Price 21s. net.
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Tanks in the Great War, 1914–1918. Nature 105, 702–704 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105702a0
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