The History of the Tank
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Born from the deadlock of the First World War, the tank was designed to cross trenches, crush barbed wire and shield soldiers from enemy fire. Its first appearance on the Somme in 1916 was troubled, but within a generation tanks had become central to Blitzkrieg, the vast battles of the Eastern Front and Allied victory in the Second World War. This episode follows the tank from Little Willie and Cambrai through the Cold War and into an age of missiles, mines and battlefield drones, asking why this heavily armoured machine continues to survive every prediction of its demise.
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