Tank by Patrick Wright

This is a history book with the tank as its subject. But don't come looking for models or calibres; it is about the iconography of the tank.

The book is divided into five parts, chronolgically ordered. WWI, inter-war, WWII, Israel, and future. The WWI and inter-war parts revolves around the writings of JFC Fuller, visionary and one-time mystic, and Staff Officer to the Heavy Section of the Machine-Gun Corps, the first tank unit in history. In the WWII part it revolves around the writing of Curzio Malaparte, an Italian war correspondent who visited the Russian Front. The Israel part focuses on General Isael Tal, who turned the Israeli tanks into its modern form.

Images expored:
• First impressions of the tank on the Western Front.
• The lonely protestor stopping the column of advancing tanks on Tiananmen Sqaure.
• Polish Cavalry charging German Panzer.
Pink memorial tanks in Eastern Europe.