| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Patrick Wright. Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine. New York: Viking. 2002. Pp. 499. $29.94.

The times do not favor this book, through no fault of its author. Its U.S. edition appeared in 2002, by which time much of the world's attention had turned to deadlier weapons more overtly targeted at civilians. Patrick Wright wants to apply some of the tools of his trade to understanding one of the most feared and effective military inventions of the twentieth century. There is no field more set in its ways than military history, and this sort of attempted upsetting of the paradigmatic apple cart is almost always welcome. A quote prominently displayed on the front cover from Simon Schama pronounces the book "a tour de force, a cultural history of our dreams and delusions." Its strengths notwithstanding, the book falls well short of this tribute. . . .

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