The Tank Corps

by Clough Williams-Ellis; Amabel Williams-Ellis

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	[v]
I	A Brief Account of the Tank, Its Crew and Its Tactical Functions, As They Were at the Date of the Armistice	[25]
II	The Earliest Tanks, General Swinton, Admiral Bacon,—the Holt Tractor and the Evolution of the “Land Cruiser”	[31]
III	The Tank Corps in Embryo	[46]
IV	The First Tank Battles—The Attack on Morval, Flers, the Quadrilateral, Thiepval, and Beaumont-Hamel	[57]
V	Winter Training, Expansion and Readjustments	[77]
VI	The Battles of Arras and Bullecourt	[89]
VII	The Battle of Messines and the “Hush” Operation	[110]
VIII	The Flanders Campaign—Preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres	[124]
IX	The Third Battle of Ypres	[138]
X	The First Battle of Cambrai	[160]
XI	Three New Types of Tank—The Depot—Central Workshops	[190]
XII	The French Tank Corps—American Tanks and British Tanks in Egypt	[209]
XIII	Suspense—The “Savage Rabbits” Episode—The Enemy’s Intentions	[235]
XIV	The March Retreat	[243]
XV	The Equilibrium—Minor Actions—Hamel—The Ballon D’Essai	[265]
XVI	With the French—The Battle of Moreuil	[280]
XVII	The Battle of Amiens, or Battle of August 8	[288]
XVIII	The German Attitude—“Man-Traps and Gins”—The Battle of Bapaume	[323]
XIX	Breaking the Drocourt-Quéant Line—The Battle of Epehy	[341]
XX	The Second Battle of Cambrai, or the Battle of Cambrai-St. Quentin	[361]
XXI	The Second Battle of Le Cateau—The Running Fight	[380]
XXII	The Rout—Mormal Forest—The Battle of the Sambre—The Armistice	[392]
	Epilogue	[402]
	Index	[417]

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