Tankishness
Peter Wollen: Tank by Patrick Wright, 16 November 2000
Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine
by Patrick Wright.
Faber, 499 pp., £25, October 2000,0 571 19259 9 Show More
by Patrick Wright.
Faber, 499 pp., £25, October 2000,
“... of his friend Colonel Hankey eventually led to Swinton’s proposal coming to the attention of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. Which is how, in January 1915, the future tank became a naval project. Swinton did not learn of this development until late in May, but Churchill had made considerable progress in the meantime. A new Landships ... ”
