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Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine by Patrick Wright
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Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine

by Patrick Wright

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Not simply a recitation of the mechanical facts, there's a lot in here about the perception and impact of tanks. My interest is in the very early stages and their use in WWI and perhaps I'd have like a bit more hard detail, but I can probably get that elsewhere. ( )
  Skyehighmileage | Dec 9, 2009 |
Too much human interest. Not enough sixty tonne steel beasts blasting chunks out of each oher. ( )
  jontseng | Feb 11, 2009 |
That this book is listed as published by Penguin (Non-Classics) is not ironic in any sense of the word.

This book is boring on so many levels and it really should not be. The author wants to look at the psychological impact of tanks and the imagery of tanks over the last century. He just goes about his business in a very boring fashion. ( )
  jcovington | Jul 18, 2007 |
A wonderfully eclectic biography of the tank: as constructed entity, as social icon, as symbol of the 20th century. ( )
1 vote Fizzog | Jan 15, 2007 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0142001910, Paperback)

In this highly acclaimed cultural history of the wartime juggernaut that changed ground warfare forever, Patrick Wright takes us through war zones and battlefields-from the tank's infancy in the First World War and the Russian Revolution through World War II, the Six Day War, and the Gulf War. More than a conventional work of military history, Tank investigates the enduring symbolism of this icon of brutality and its exploitation as a social and political tool. Wright explores the transformation of ground combat and the drastic alteration of our relationship with the military machine as it is redesigned for the era of digitized warfare.

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