At dawn on 24 April 1918, near Villers-Bretonneux, a British Mark V commanded by Lieutenant Frank Mitchell spotted three German A7V tanks advancing through smoke and mist. What followed was the first ...

The limits of tank design were set long before the first tank ever rolled onto a battlefield. When tanks were invented in 1915, the railway system was the only practical way to move them across long ...

Intended to function as land ships with the firepower and mobility that could shatter the deadlock of trench warfare during World War I, the first tanks deployed in 1916 were massive, lumbering, and ...