Dan interviews Shashank Joshi, this time face-to-face, for another Matrix-style History Hit download. Find out about the historical context to the situation in Syria.;Shashank Joshi @shashj is a Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, Research Associate, Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University and PhD Candidate, Harvard. His blog is at https://shashankjoshi.wordpress.com.
Captain David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France to join a veteran armoured unit that had already spent years fighting with the Desert Rats in North Africa. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the ...
David Willey is Curator at The Tank Museum. Located in Bovington, Dorset, the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and Royal Armoured Corps is a collection of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles.
Rob Schaefer is a German military historian. Here he talks to Dan Snow about the German response to tanks during the First World War