It began as a routine attack. Just after dawn, British Matilda and cruiser tanks rolled forward across the hard desert floor ...

In June 1941, confident after earlier victories in North Africa, British forces launched Operation Battleaxe to break the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Matilda’s demise in North Africa was caused by attrition, as destroyed hulls were replaced by other tanks, rather than being directly replaced with new Matildas.

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The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...