Beginning with the origins of the tank, he manages to take the narrative through all the major conflicts, and from one side of the globe to another, including the world after 1990, bringing the story right up to the present day.
Jeremy Black succeeds in steering the reader through the entire history of the tank, traversing a remarkable range of wars, campaigns, machines and technical developments. This book is a tour de force and strongly recommended. It was not the silver bullet of its proponents like Fuller and Liddell Hart: it was important but only as part of a mix of weaponry. He shows that its effectiveness depended on context. Black covers both the tank's limitations and defeats as well as its strengths and successes. In his sweeping account, Jeremy Black covers all aspects of the tank and all conflicts in which it has been involved, displaying a rare knowledge and integrating that knowledge into a coherent whole that few are capable of. This superb book tells the story of tank warfare since its inception. ~Kaushik Roy, Guru Nanak Chair Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
The author persuasively argues that though tanks will remain relevant to armies in the near future, their combat effectiveness is somewhat decreasing due to the nature of future battlefield and weapons. Tank Warfare's exciting prose and intricate analysis will not only attract the general readers but will also be of great help to the specialists. As this monograph shows, the value of tank in war depends not only on the state of art technology but also on non-material factors like command, tactical concepts, training and doctrine. Through his lucid prose, Black, not only provides an incisive account of the great tank battles fought by the panzers and Israeli Defense Force but also engages with the existing debates in the field. In scope and brevity, this book surpasses all other available works on tank warfare. Tank Warfare is a tour de force of the history of armored combat from the Battle of Cambrai till Syria. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as military historians.īlack is a master of taking a complex subject with a long history and condensing a broad spectrum of evidence and analysis into a well-organized, well-written monograph that is insightful and informative. While there have been many books on armored warfare before, not one has this scope or critical analysis. Tank Warfare by Jeremy Black is an in-depth, analytical study of the tank as a weapon of war. 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. 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. Yet the account of armor on the battlefield is a tale of limitations and defeats as well as of potential and achievements. The developments of technology and tactics in the interwar years were realized in the German blitzkrieg in World War II and beyond. 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. 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. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments.
0 kommentar(er)
