In order to try and gain an advantage on the battlefield, Italy set out to develop a Tank of its own, resulting in the Fiat 2000, an innovative, if forgotten part of the Great War.

Today, the 'Fray Bentos Boys' are officially recognised as the most decorated tank crew of WW1 - having participated in the war's longest tank engagement. Top 10 The Big Bang Theory Jokes That ...

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 ...

It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...