Verrry interestingCame across this on Netflix streaming and watched the first two episodes out of 4. Very well done.
Not really. It had good parts to it but there was an awful lot of summarising history in a kind of "a boy's first book of tanks" kind of way. The WW2 history was particularly egregious -- they seem to have cribbed all of the history from Guderian's memoirs, for instance, leading to a lot of bias. Their "history" of pre-war tank design in Russia was laughable. The WW1 episode with its focus on the history of French tank design was welcome in the sense that we don't often see that kind of focus -- but then they really glossed over the role of British tank design.Came across this on Netflix streaming and watched the first two episodes out of 4. Very well done.
I don't know if I'd agree there. I'd say the French FT-17* was the forerunner of every tank of the 20th century and gets a lot less press than it should compared to the British tanks, which were important in WWI but an evolutionary dead end.Their "history" of pre-war tank design in Russia was laughable. The WW1 episode with its focus on the history of French tank design was welcome in the sense that we don't often see that kind of focus -- but then they really glossed over the role of British tank design.