Tank: the progress of a monstrous war machine

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1 The Heaviness of an Age 1

PART I. ItWas an Actual Fact

2 A Monster is Evolved 23

3 Big Joke 38

4 Breaking the Line (the War Artist's Dilemma) 54

5 Raising the Heavy Branch at Bermicourt 62

6 Banking on the Tank 81

7 MoralVictory lo1

PART II. In the Church of Mechanization

8 Bringing it All Back Home 113

9 The Prophet's Creed 134

lo The Secret Imprint of the Great Beast 155

n The Mission Overseas 182

PART III. Blitzkrieg

12 The Lancer and the Panzer 231

13 Through Sixty Years of Mist 252

14 Into Russia with Curzio Malaparte 270

i5 The Tiger and the Mouse 287

i6 Tributes: A Flag for Europe and the True Birth of Punk 308

PART IV. The Coming of the Merkava

17 The Steeling of Zion 319

18 Jewish Blitzkrieg? 346

PART V. After the Cold War

19 Conversion: Pink Tank and Poliscar 377

20 Fort Knox: Cybertanks and the Army After Next 409

Notes 447

Acknowledgements 483

Index 487.