9780750910590

Death by Design

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780750910590

Hardcover|9780750910590


Overview

When Britain went to war in 1939, its tank crews were ill-equipped, under-trained and badly led. Compared with German and Soviet tank forces, the performance of British tank units during Worl War II was largely ineffective and the lives of hundreds of British tank crews were wasted unnecessarily. This was not due only to the poor design and construction of British tanks, but also to the lack of thought and planning on the part of successive pre-war governments and the War Office. At the end of World War I, Britain's tank forces were more advanced than any others in the world, and ideas were being developed for the provision and use of progressively more effective tank forces. Had progress been maintained, even on a modest scale, it would have been possible for Britain to have had tank forces comparable with those of Germany in 1936. This was not to be, however, and at no time until 1945, did Britain's armoured capability meet that of the Germans.

ISBN-13

9780750910590

ISBN-10

0750910593

Weight

1.32 Pounds

Dimensions

7.00 x 0.50 x 10.25 In

List Price

$39.95

Format

Hardcover

Pages

ix, 214 pages

Publisher

Sutton Pub Ltd

Published On

1999-02-24



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