Tank Commander

by Ronald Welch

Book Overview

As a result of his experience on the front line in France, a young British officer finds himself participating in the first tank warfare of World War I. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0840763883
• ISBN13: 9780840763884
• Release Date: February 1974
• Publisher: T. Nelson
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

I agree with reviewer 1. I borrowed this book from Dhaka (Bangladesh) British Council when I was a high school student, and absolutely loved this book. It epitomizes the elegance of soldiering, hints at the humor of army-life, and depicts the mindlessness of war. I searched the book for a long time since, but could not find it. Finally, I found the book again when I relocated to Calgary some 12 years after reading it the first time. This time, the sense of adventure was less appealing and some of the heroics of LJ seemed downright ridiculous (taking up a whole company of Germans single-handedly with two guns blazing). But the details of early tamk-warfare was still interesting. Also, this being a later book of Welch, he somewhat muted his unreserved awe for the King and the Country, which made this book more palatable.