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STERN (Lt.-Col. Sir Albert G., KBE, CMG)
Tanks 1914-1918: The Log-Book of a Pioneer.
1st Ed., xi+298pp., portrait, 45 plates, 8 diagrams, plan. H&S.
1919
#63699
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A banker & RNAS officer who became secretary of the Landships Committee & head of the Mechanical Warfare Supply Dept. of the Ministry of Munitions. Useful record of Tank planning & development. "Several important books have been written on tanks, but this work of Sir Alfred Stern's is unlikely to be superseded in its own class. It is mainly an account of the beginnings: the germ, the growth of the idea, the early experiments, the fight for opportunities, & the author's work for tanks with the United States & France, after the British War Office had got rid of him. As might be expected, the tone is highly controversial." - Falls. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & black tank motif to front board, rather rubbed & worn copy with renewed eps, sound throughout. See illustration on our website.
£45
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