Tank Warfare

Jeremy Black (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2020
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04999-5 (ISBN)

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The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. In Tank Warfare, prominent military historian Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive global account of the history of tanks and armored warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries. First introduced onto the battlefield during the World War I, tanks represented the reconciliation of firepower and mobility and immediately seized the imagination of commanders and commentators concerned about the constraints of ordinary infantry. The developments of technology and tactics in the interwar years were realized in the German blitzkrieg in World War II and beyond. Yet the account of armor on the battlefield is a tale of limitations and defeats as well as of potential and achievements. Tank Warfare examines the traditional narrative of armored warfare while at the same time challenging it, and Black suggests that tanks were no "silver bullet" on the battlefield. Instead, their success was based on their inclusion in the general mix of weaponry available to commanders and the context in which they were used.

Jeremy Black is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow both of Policy Exchange and of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of many books, including A History of Britain: 1945 to Brexit, War and Technology, and Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975. Black is a recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. The Start
2. The 1920s
3. The 1930s
4. The Second World War, I: Axis Advances
5. The Second World War, II: The Allies Attack
6. The Early Cold War, 1945–1967
7. The Late Cold War, 1968–1990
8. Since 1990
9. The Future
Conclusions
Selected Further Reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-253-04999-7 / 0253049997
ISBN-13	978-0-253-04999-5 / 9780253049995
Zustand	Neuware