BBC History Best of History websites The British Museum The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites Thursday, 9.00 - 9.45am, rpt 9.30pm Melvyn Bragg explores the history of ideas.

Ten tanks were written off. None were recovered, and nothing was achieved at all. NARRATOR: Appalled by the debacle at Passchendaele, the British High Command was on the point of abandoning these ...

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...

with almost 400 fighting tanks that advanced without any prior bombardment so the enemy had no warning." After advancing for about six miles, the British were halted and later the Germans launched ...