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Tank - The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine

By: Chartwell Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Reference Books (Penguin Publishing)

Last Stocked on 9/24/2019

Product Info

Title
Tank - The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine
Publisher
Category
Author
Patrick Wright
Publish Year
2003
Pages
500
Dimensions
5x8x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147609186
Type
Softcover

Description

In this highly acclaimed cultural history of the wartime juggernaut that changed ground warfare forever, Patrick Wright takes us through war zones and battlefields-from the tank's infancy in the First World War and the Russian Revolution through World War II, the Six Day War, and the Gulf War. More than a conventional work of military history, Tank investigates the enduring symbolism of this icon of brutality and its exploitation as a social and political tool. Wright explores the transformation of ground combat and the drastic alteration of our relationship with the military machine as it is redesigned for the era of digitized warfare.