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The horror of tank warfare brought vividly to life

James Holland captures the suffocating stench inside these slow-moving targets and the appalling fate of those trapped inside one that’s hit

A British tank in flames in the second world war. [Getty Images] 
issue 23 October 2021
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  • Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D Day to VE Day

    James Holland

    Bantam, pp. 292, £25

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