100 years ago an awesome new fighting machine made its mark as thousands of men died during the horrific Battle of the Somme “CONSTERNATION spread among the Germans when these sinister, flat-footed ...

A hundred years ago this September tanks were used for the first time on a battlefield at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the third main phase of the Battle of the Somme. The project to develop a ...

How the Guardian and Observer reported the emergence of tanks in the first world war One hundred years ago the face of modern warfare changed forever when tanks were used for the first time. On the ...

The tank. The British Mark I (above) was the world's first combat tank. Slow and highly unreliable, the first tanks were used primarily to assist in trench warfare by breaking through barbed wire ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As part of the Somme offensive, 49 tanks were ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 249th installment in the series. Like the birth of some terrible demigod, tanks roared into the world to ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 250th installment in the series. Following the qualified British victory at the Battle of ...

It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...

On 6 September 1915, Britain produced the first completed prototype tank in history. It was known as Little Willie, weighed 14 tons and crawled at only two miles per hour. It was developed to break ...

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It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...