When Essex engineer Roland Hopper retired he described himself as "bored to tears" and disappeared into his garden shed. Ten years later he had designed and built a highly-detailed model of a World ...

Key Point: The Sherman’s inadequacies were products of its origins. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection ...

Key Point: Armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more ...

Land combat in World War II was dominated by the tank. The role of these hefty vehicles changed somewhat as the war evolved, with new models being manufactured and their weapons and defenses evolving.

A retiree built an eight-foot-long remote-control transporter lorry complete with a tank on it as his wife had taken up golf and he was “bored to tears”. Roland Hopper, 79, used the controls to drive ...

In Normandy, the American Sherman tank entered battle under-armed and under-prepared. Even though better-armed models existed ...