Despite being a pioneer nation on tank development, the British were late in creating Armoured Divisions. In this video I will analyse the origins, development en deployment of the British Armoured Divisions prior and during World War II (1920-1945).


Consulted sources:

Richard Doherty, British Armoured Divisions and their Commanders, 1939-1945 (Pen and Sword 2013).

David Fletcher, British Battle Tanks: World War I to 1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing 2016).

J.P. Harris, Men, Ideas, and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903-1939 (Manchester University Press, 1995).

Roger Salmon, The management of change : mechanizing the British Regular and Household Cavalry Regiments 1918-1942 (University of Wolverhampton 2013).

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