Royal Tank Regiment: A Pictorial History 1916-1987

256 pp. In this evocative book crammed with photographs, many from private collections, George Forty, the present Director and Curator of the world famous Tank Museum at Bovington Camp 'home of the tanks', charts the progress of the royal tank's regiment's first seventy years of history, from 1916 to 1986. Covering two World Wars and two turbulent periods of peace which followed them, the author uses his usual highly successful mix of photographs and 'I was there' stories to tell the regiment's history of peace and war. An RTR soldier himself for thirty two year, George Forty has commanded tanks and armoured carea, Aden, the Persian gulf and Borneo, so he is well fitted to tell their triumphal story.