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040: Spring 1994

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054: January 1999

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'The Tank Corps in 1918' with Lt-Col Geoffrey Vesey Holt

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Lt-Col Geoffrey Vesey Holt will be giving a talk he calls 'The Hard Road to Victory' about the The Tank Corps in 1918. This talk will reveal the important role tanks played in the hard fought defeat of the German Army in 1918. His talk his illustrated through the experiences of some of the leading personalities in the Tank Corps at the time. Ge...

William Leslie Wain: VC The Tank Corps at Cambrai 1917 by Dr Jonathan Hicks

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£12.99, Y Lolfa, Talybont, 271pp 154 photographs, 6 maps. ISBN 978191263126 1. Every November the fallen of the Tank Corps are commemorated at the CWGC Cambrai Memorial at Louverval near Cambrai in a moving ceremony, usually led by Philippe Gorczynski, that indefatigable guardian of the history and memory of the Tank Corps at the Battle of Cam...

Tanks and Storm Troopers : British and German Solutions to the Deadlock on the Western Front by A D Harvey

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(This article first appeared in the June 2020 edition of Stand To! Number 118 pp.10-14.) By 1916 both sides were seeking a solution to the stalemate which had developed on the Western Front as a result of the almost insuperable advantage enjoyed by garrisons in carefully constructed defences over enemy troops attacking across prepared fire zones...