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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Col. R.E.B. Crompton

Col. R.E.B. Crompton

Hills, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Pioneers of Armour, Book 2

World War I

ISBN10: 1793324794
ISBN13: 9781793324795
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 24 2019
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The foundations and principles of modern armoured warfare did not appear out of a vacuum, and nor did the machines of WW1 and WW2. Their development was full of false starts, failed ideas, and missed opportunities. Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton was a pioneer in electrical engineering and road haulage who, by the turn of the century found himself in South Africa during the Boer War. Later, in WW1 his early work with the Landships Committee on tracked vehicles sought to break the stalemate of trench warfare. Although his tank designs never saw combat the work he started was carried on by other pioneers and helped to usher in a dawn of armoured and mechanised warfare.

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