WRIGHT, PATRICK — Tank

UK, Faber & Faber, London. 2000. Soft cover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Book, 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. In this book Wright examines the 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. 499 crisp pp, photo section amidships, just too far over the 500g so why not add a second book & use up that post. Very Good/None issued.