Katja Hoyer Katja Hoyer

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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