It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...

He managed to combine his two interests most recently by engineering an FT-17, a WW1-era combat vehicle that’s widely ...

In order to try and gain an advantage on the battlefield, Italy set out to develop a Tank of its own, resulting in the Fiat ...

Horace Leslie Birks was put in charge of one of these early tanks at Passchendaele. HORACE LESLIE BIRKS: This was the first time I had actually commanded a tank in action, and I was petrified.

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...