The Tank Corps :: CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	v
I	A Brief Account of the Tank, Its Crew and Its Tactical Functions, As They Were at the Date of the Armistice	25
II	The Earliest Tanks, General Swinton, Admiral Bacon,—the Holt Tractor and the Evolution of the “Land Cruiser”	31
III	The Tank Corps in Embryo	46
IV	The First Tank Battles—The Attack on Morval, Flers, the Quadrilateral, Thiepval, and Beaumont-Hamel	57
V	Winter Training, Expansion and Readjustments	77
VI	The Battles of Arras and Bullecourt	89
VII	The Battle of Messines and the “Hush” Operation	110
VIII	The Flanders Campaign—Preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres	124
IX	The Third Battle of Ypres	138
X	The First Battle of Cambrai	160
XI	Three New Types of Tank—The Depot—Central Workshops	190
XII	The French Tank Corps—American Tanks and British Tanks in Egypt	209
XIII	Suspense—The “Savage Rabbits” Episode—The Enemy’s Intentions	235
XIV	The March Retreat	243
XV	The Equilibrium—Minor Actions—Hamel—The Ballon D’Essai	265
XVI	With the French—The Battle of Moreuil	280
XVII	The Battle of Amiens, or Battle of August 8	288
XVIII	The German Attitude—“Man-Traps and Gins”—The Battle of Bapaume	323
XIX	Breaking the Drocourt-QuÉant Line—The Battle of Epehy	341
XX	The Second Battle of Cambrai, or the Battle of Cambrai-St. Quentin	361
XXI	The Second Battle of Le Cateau—The Running Fight	380
XXII	The Rout—Mormal Forest—The Battle of the Sambre—The Armistice	392
	Epilogue	402
	Index	417

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