One of the earliest attempts to design an AFV that could cope with First World War battlefields was the bizarre Tsar Tank.
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Read More »Newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook was appointed Minister of Aircraft Production by Churchill in May 1940. At the time, German forces were advancing rapidly through France towards
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