Tanks in the Great War

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Author

Fuller, J. F. C. (John Frederick Charles), 1878-1966

Title

Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918

Credits

Produced by Brian Coe, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. Missing pages from Google Books, Colgate University Library (map), and Cornell University Library (map and text). (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

Tanks (Military science)

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49808

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49808

Release Date

August 28, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TANKS IN THE GREAT WAR
2. 2.DEDICATIONS — I — II — III
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — TANKS IN THE GREAT WAR
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE ORIGINS OF THE TANK
7. 7.CHAPTER II THE INVENTION OF THE LANDSHIP
8. 8.CHAPTER III MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TANKS — The Mark I Tank (see Frontispiece ) — The Mark II and Mark III Tanks — The Mark IV Tank ( Plate I —see p. 26 ) — The Mark V Tank ( Plate V —see p. 204 ) — The Mark V One Star Tank ( Plate VII —see p. 220 ) — The Medium Mark A or “Whippet” Tank ( Plate III —see p. 176 ) — The Gun-carrying Tank ( Plate VII —see p. 220 )
9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE MARK I TANK AND ITS TACTICS
10. 10.CHAPTER V THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME AND ANCRE
11. 11.CHAPTER VI THE GROWTH OF THE TANK CORPS ORGANISATION
12. 12.CHAPTER VII TANK “ESPRIT DE CORPS”
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII TANK TACTICS
14. 14.CHAPTER IX THE BATTLE OF ARRAS — CHAPTER X TANK BATTLE RECORDS — Battle History of Crew No. D.6. Tank No. 505. Date 9/4/17. Commanded by Lieutenant A—— — Battle History Of Crew No. D.9. Tank No. 770. Date 9/4/17. Commanded by 2nd Lieutenant C—— — Battle History of Crew No. D.4. Tank No. 783. Date 23/4/17. Commanded by Lieutenant E—— — Battle History of Crew No. D.10. Tank No. 784. Date 23/4/17. Commanded by 2nd Lieutenant G—— — Battle History of Crew No. 9. Tank No. 716. Date 23/4/17. Commanded by 2nd Lieutenant H——
15. 15.CHAPTER XI THE SECOND BATTLE OF GAZA
16. 16.CHAPTER XII STAFF WORK AND BATTLE PREPARATION
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII THE BATTLE OF MESSINES
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV A TACTICAL APPRECIATION
19. 19.CHAPTER XV THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI TANK MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII THE THIRD BATTLE OF GAZA
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII ORIGINS OF THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI
24. 24.CHAPTER XX AN INFANTRY APPRECIATION OF TANKS
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI THE TANK CORPS TRAINING CENTRE
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII THE TANK SUPPLY COMPANIES
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV TANK SIGNALLING ORGANISATION — A. D. Signals (Technical Instructions, Posting of Officers and Men, Control of all Signal Stores)
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV THE FRENCH TANK CORPS
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI PREPARATIONS FOR THE GREAT OFFENSIVE
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII THE BATTLES OF HAMEL AND MOREUIL
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII GERMAN TANK OPERATIONS
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX THE BATTLE OF AMIENS
34. 34.CHAPTER XXX THE FIGHT OF A WHIPPET TANK
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI GERMAN APPRECIATION OF BRITISH TANKS
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXII AEROPLANE CO-OPERATION WITH TANKS
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIII THE BATTLE OF BAPAUME AND THE SECOND BATTLE OF ARRAS
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIV GERMAN ANTI-TANK TACTICS
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXV THE BATTLES OF EPEHY AND CAMBRAI—ST. QUENTIN
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVI THE U.S.A. TANK CORPS
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVII THE BATTLES OF THE SELLE AND MAUBEUGE
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVIII THE 17TH TANK ARMOURED CAR BATTALION
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXIX A RETROSPECT OF WHAT TANKS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
44. 44.CHAPTER XL A FORECAST OF WHAT TANKS MAY DO
45. 45.INDEX
46. 46.FOOTNOTES
47. 47.Transcriber’s Notes

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