Rogers, Colonel H. C. B. OBE, — TANKS IN BATTLE.
Seeley Service, London, 1965, 1st edn., 240pp, coloured photo frontis, 48 half tone plates, 8 in text maps, red cloth with black title panel lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, photo pictorial dustwrapper, Volume Vlll in the Imperial Services Library series, a study of the development of the tank in warfare, covering the original role of 'heavy cavalry', which it replaced, history of other war vehicles from the chariot to the early armoured car, the first tanks of 1914 and and account of the military and politcial decisions behind their development through two world wars, details of specifications, armaments., different marques, etc., and accounts of some of the major tank battles, lightly rubbed at extrems., fore-and lower edges tanned, faint foxing to free endpapers, dustwrapper: price clipped rubbed at extrems., very good in a good dustwrapper,
