In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The genesis of the Grant sprang less from inspiration and more from desperation. Why were Rommel’s tanks blowing up? As the Desert Fox’s panzers churned through the ...

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence ...

In 1938 and 1939, it became increasingly apparent to both the British military and to the world that a major European war was imminent. As a stop-gap measure, the Covenanter tank was built in large ...

Despite inventing the tank, Britain entered World War II with designs that struggled in real combat. Weak guns, unreliable ...