Eyewitness And The Origins Of The Tanks By Swinton HB 1933 World War One BR
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Eyewitness and the Origins of the Tanks. Swinton, Ernest D. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover, 332 pages, b&w photos, index, facsimile letters, one folding chart. Frontispiece photo of the author. Map endpapers. Not common.
"Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, KBE, CB, DSO (21 October 1868 – 15 January 1951) was a British Army officer who played a part in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. He was also a war ...correspondent and author of several short stories on military themes. He is credited, along with fellow officer Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Dally Jones, with having initiated the use of the word "tank" as a code-name for the first tracked, armoured fighting vehicles." - Wikipedia
"Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, KBE, CB, DSO (21 October 1868 – 15 January 1951) was a British Army officer who played a part in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. He was also a war ...correspondent and author of several short stories on military themes. He is credited, along with fellow officer Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Dally Jones, with having initiated the use of the word "tank" as a code-name for the first tracked, armoured fighting vehicles." - Wikipedia
