Osprey - British Mark I Tank 1916 Tank Leopard 1 tactics and organisation

tactics and organisation

Germany and Italy

Contains multimedia unassembled scale model that will require glue and paint to finish

The history of this tank provides the focal point of this book

Osprey - British Mark I Tank 1916 Tank Leopard 1 tactics and organisationBy David Fletcher MBE David Fletcher examines the development of the Mark I, and its surprise arrival in France in the middle of 1916 during the closing weeks of the battles of the Somme. In 1915 a machine christened Little Willie changed the way that wars were fought. Little Willie was a fully tracked armoured vehicle that could break a trench system. Its development was completed in December 1915, but by then it had already been superseded by an