BBC - Soldiers A History of Men in Battle (1985) Part 5 Tank

Wars are conflicts between states and societies. Soldiers are the human means through which wars are fought. Soldiers, the major BBC series on the history of warfare, tells its story through the different types of soldiers who have fought each other since warfare began.

“War changes men and it changes Man; it alters our world and our history, our political systems, our social attitudes, our perceptions and our moralities. By showing how men go into it, pass through it and emerge from it, 'Soldiers' tells us something we need to know.” - Frederick Forsyth

Part 5: Tank This episode examines the increasingly important role played by tanks in battle. In the Second World War tanks made a military revolution as dynamic as that imposed by the cavalry three tousand years earlier. The success and failure of tanks has depended on the principles of mobility, protection and firepower.

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