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The Battle of Cambrai (1917): The First Great Tank Battle

The Battle of Cambrai (1917): The First Great Tank Battle

Whitaker, Jack

Paperback

Series: Forgotten Battles

Military StrategyWorld War I

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ISBN13: 9798185641460
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Battle of Cambrai (1917): The First Great Tank Battle, Jack Whitaker tells the remarkable true story of the offensive that introduced a new era of warfare on the Western Front. In November 1917, after years of bloody stalemate in the trenches of northern France, the British Army launched a carefully planned assault unlike anything seen before, sending hundreds of tanks crashing through the Hindenburg Line in the first great massed armored attack in history.

Drawing on official war diaries, battlefield reports, eyewitness accounts, and contemporary military records, Whitaker reconstructs the dramatic fighting around Flesquières, Bourlon Wood, and the villages west of Cambrai. He follows the rapid British breakthrough, the fierce German resistance, and the powerful counterattack that turned the battlefield into one of the most important testing grounds of the First World War.

More than the story of a single battle, this book reveals how Cambrai became the proving ground for modern combined arms warfare. Although the offensive ended without a decisive victory, it demonstrated that tanks, artillery, infantry, and aircraft could be coordinated to break defenses once thought impregnable, offering the first clear glimpse of the mechanized battlefields that would define the twentieth century.

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