HAIGH (Capt. Richard, MC, Tank Corps)
Life in a Tank.
1st Ed., [vii]+141pp., 8 plates. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
1918
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Author, a regular officer of the Berkshire Regt., was attached to Heavy Banch MGC towards the end of 1916, trained on tanks in France & participated in several assaults on the Hindenburg Line in 1917 (Bullecourt &c.): these experiences are described in novelised form here. Haigh later toured the US, demonstrating the tank's capabilities, in a publicity/fundraising exercise of which this book was doubtless a spin-off. Attractive orig. grey pictorial cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.
£125
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