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First published in 1984 and 1987 as companion volumes- David Fletcher"s Landships and War Cars have since become military classics- telling the stories of the birth and the coming of age of the tank and the armoured car in the First World War. They are republished here by The Tank Museum in this fully redesigned combined volume for a new audience of armour historians and enthusiasts. In Landships- David Fletcher relates how the tank was conceived as an answer to a specific problem- the mass slaughter and stalemate of the trenches. Its development is described- from a primitive caterpillar tractor to a rapidly evolving weapon system. Every type of tank built for the British Army during this period is illustrated and described against the background of the battles in which they fought and the organisation that supported them. For good or ill- tanks changed the nature of warfare forever. War Cars traces the genesis of the armoured car- from the earliest times to their emergence at the ou