Articles by Ralph Berry

Tanks were born prematurely in November 1916 at Cambrai, when General Haig needed a victory and insisted on an induced birth. They were at once copied by the Germans and had no decisive success before Ludendorff’s ‘black day of the German Army’ in August 1918. Tanks were then held to be inseparable from the future of land warfare and remained … [Read on]

I take ‘Letters’ in the Daily Telegraph seriously. This is not because I have high regard for the writers. The regulars include Private Eye‘s Sir Herbert Gussett, and Lieutenant-Colonel (retired). Retirement has not dimmed their martial impulses, and they are all for Standing Up To Putin. They are also mustard for increased defence spending, which will curb Putin’s ambitions and … [Read on]