Book description
'I thought Tank Men was a triumph ...it is a really fine piece of work'
- Richard Holmes 'Some of the eye witness accounts Kershaw has collected
for this comprehensive review of tank warfare have the power to chill
the reader to the bone. This is warfare at the sharp end' --NOTTINGHAM
EVENING POST The First World War saw the birth of an extraordinary
fighting machine that has fascinated three generations: the tank. In
Tank Men, ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to
life the grime, the grease and the fury of a tank battle through the
voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome
machines. Drawing on vivid, newly researched personal testimony from the
crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars, this is military
history at its very best. Robert Kershaw, who until recently held a
senior position within NATO, joined the Parachute Regiment in 1973 and
has served actively in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and the first Gulf War,
for which he was awarded the US Bronze Star. He has written seven books
of military history and has contributed to the Daily Mail, The Times,
the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph.
