A Company of Tanks
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“Steel, mud, blood and courage on the Western FrontThis is a fine book because it is a superb first hand eye-witness account of British Tanks in action throughout the First World War. Without much preamble Watson launches the reader, in company with the author’s brother officers, men and machines into the heart of the field of conflict on the 11th Corps forward line on the Western Front in the Autumn and Winter of 1916. From that point to the end of the book and the war itself the narrative takes us inexorably into the dark heart of war the tankers knew. Battles and battlefield experiences in ...
Chapters (306)(click to expand)
- A Company of Tanks
- CONTENTS.
- A Company of Tanks. CHAPTER I. ON THE XIth CORPS FRONT. (October to December 1916.)
- CHAPTER II. FRED KARNO'S ARMY. (January to April 1917.)
- CHAPTER III. BEFORE THE FIRST BATTLE. (March and April 1917.)
- CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULLECOURT. (April 11, 1917.)
- CHAPTER V. THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULLECOURT. (May 3, 1917.)
- CHAPTER VI. REST AND TRAINING. (May and June 1917.)
- CHAPTER VII. THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES—PREPARATIONS. (July 1917.)
- CHAPTER VIII. THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES—ST JULIEN. (August 1917.)
- CHAPTER IX. THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES—THE POELCAPELLE ROAD. (September and October 1917.)
- CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI—FLESQUIERES. (November 4th to 20th, 1917.)
- CHAPTER XI. THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI—BOURLON WOOD. (November 21st to 23rd, 1917.)
- CHAPTER XII. THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI—GOUZEAUCOURT. (November 24th to December 1st, 1917.)
- CHAPTER XIII. HAVRINCOURT TO HARROW. (December 1st, 1917, to January 31st, 1918.)
- CHAPTER XIV. THE CARRIER TANKS. (January 31st to August 1st, 1918.)
- CHAPTER XV. THE BATTLE OF AMIENS. (August 1st to August 27th, 1918.)
- CHAPTER XVI. THE HINDENBURG LINE. (August 27th to October 8th, 1918.)
- CHAPTER XVII. THE SECOND BATTLE OF LE CATEAU. (October 9th to October 30th, 1918.)
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE END OF THE WAR. (October 31st, 1918, to January 12th, 1919.)
- FOOTNOTES
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