Launched in July 1944, Operation Goodwood was designed to break German defenses east of Caen using overwhelming armored force. Thousands of tanks and bombers were committed in what became the largest ...

The Matilda II, or just Matilda as it was later called, was what the British called an infantry tank. As opposed to bigger cruiser-style tanks with heavier guns, infantry tanks were meant to accompany ...

The British Army was the first to develop and deploy tanks during World War I, but by the outbreak of World War II its armored vehicles were in a word: lackluster. Throughout the war it subsequently ...

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The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...