First edition. Frontispiece and twenty-two other plates, folding diagram of a Mark V tank, folding map of tank operations August-November 1918, unlisted folding map of British lines Xmas 1916. 8vo. Endpapers slightly browned, some scattered foxing, otherwise very good indeed in the original brown cloth, enamelled lettering to the upper board and spine, a little rubbed as usual xvi, 288pp. London, published at the Offices of “Country Life”, Ltd., 1919.
Falls p.86. “This is a short but clear history of the tank from the time of its conception in the minds of its numerous inventors to the end of the War. Major Williams-Ellis reaches the conclusion that, “every factor being cancelled out, the fact that the French and English possessed tanks and the Germans did not was just enough to win the last war for the Allies.”
