Tank
Subtitle: the progress of a monstrous war machine
By: Patrick Wright.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: Tanks (Military science) -- History; Tank warfare -- History
Description: A look at the war machine that has dominated military theory and practice throughout the twentieth century explores the tank as a cultural and social object, revealing how the tank became the symbol of technological futurism and inevitable progress, as well as of totalitarian oppression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations vii; title: 1 The Heaviness of an Age 1; title: PART I. ItWas an Actual Fact; title: 2 A Monster is Evolved 23; title: 3 Big Joke 38; title: 4 Breaking the Line (the War Artist's Dilemma) 54; title: 5 Raising the Heavy Branch at Bermicourt 62; title: 6 Banking on the Tank 81; title: 7 MoralVictory lo1; title: PART II. In the Church of Mechanization; title: 8 Bringing it All Back Home 113; title: 9 The Prophet's Creed 134; title: lo The Secret Imprint of the Great Beast 155; title: n The Mission Overseas 182; title: PART III. Blitzkrieg; title: 12 The Lancer and the Panzer 231; title: 13 Through Sixty Years of Mist 252; title: 14 Into Russia with Curzio Malaparte 270; title: i5 The Tiger and the Mouse 287; title: i6 Tributes: A Flag for Europe and the True Birth of Punk 308; title: PART IV. The Coming of the Merkava; title: 17 The Steeling of Zion 319; title: 18 Jewish Blitzkrieg? 346; title: PART V. After the Cold War; title: 19 Conversion: Pink Tank and Poliscar 377; title: 20 Fort Knox: Cybertanks and the Army After Next 409; title: Notes 447; title: Acknowledgements 483; title: Index 487.