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Welcome to Famous Tank Battles!
Famous Tank Battles is a military history podcast series about the battles that shaped armored warfare from the First World War through the late twentieth century. Thi...
Welcome to the Battle of Cambrai - Season 1
Famous Tank Battles is a military history podcast series about the battles that shaped armored warfare from the First World War through the late twentieth century. Thi...
Cambrai: Episode 1 — After Passchendaele
Passchendaele was not simply another costly battle on the Western Front. It was one of the clearest demonstrations that the old methods of attack were reaching their l...
Cambrai: Episode 2 — Inventing the Breakthrough
By late 1917, the British Army was no longer just experimenting with new weapons. It was trying to solve a battlefield problem that had resisted nearly every major off...
Cambrai: Episode 3 — The Cambrai Breakthrough
Cambrai became one of the most important tank battles in military history because it showed that the deadlock of trench warfare could be broken in a way that felt genu...
Cambrai: Episode 4 — Why Cambrai?
Cambrai was chosen because it offered something the British had been unable to find at places like Passchendaele: ground where tanks had a real chance to function. The...
Cambrai: Episode 5 — The Tank Corps Grows Up
By the time of Cambrai, the tank was no longer just an experimental machine appearing in scattered battlefield episodes. It was becoming part of a serious military ins...
Cambrai: Episode 6 — Silent Guns, Loud Ideas
Cambrai was not only a tank battle. It was also one of the clearest demonstrations that artillery had entered a new stage of the war. This episode focuses on the artil...
Cambrai: Episode 7 — Moving 476 Tanks
One of the most remarkable parts of Cambrai happened before the attack even began. This episode looks at the hidden logistical effort required to gather, move, fuel, a...
Cambrai: Episode 8 — Commanders and Doubters
Cambrai was shaped not only by machines and terrain, but by argument. This episode looks at the commanders, advocates, skeptics, and planners who disagreed over what t...
Cambrai: Episode 9 — Zero Hour: 20 November 1917
The opening of the Battle of Cambrai remains one of the most dramatic moments in the history of World War I. This episode follows the dawn attack on 20 November 1917, ...
Cambrai: Episode 10 — The First Shock
The first day at Cambrai stunned the Germans because it disrupted the battlefield rhythm they had learned to expect from major British offensives. This episode explore...
Cambrai: Episode 11 — Havrincourt Falls
Havrincourt was more than a village on the Cambrai battlefield. It was one of the key local positions that helped turn the opening British assault on 20 November 1917 ...
Cambrai: Episode 12 — Flesquières
Flesquières is one of the most important episodes in the Cambrai story because it is where the battle stopped looking simple. While British forces made major gains on ...
Cambrai: Episode 13 — Ribécourt and Marcoing
Ribécourt and Marcoing sit near the center of the Battle of Cambrai’s most promising first-day gains. In this episode, the focus shifts to the part of the battlefield ...
Cambrai: Episode 14 — Masnières: The Broken Bridge
Masnières is one of those moments in military history where a single damaged crossing can reshape an entire battle. This episode examines the canal crossing near Masni...
Cambrai: Episode 15 — Why the Cavalry Couldn’t Finish It
The British breakthrough at Cambrai briefly revived an old military dream: that once the trench line was broken, cavalry could pour through the gap and turn success in...
Cambrai: Episode 16 — Half the Tanks Are Gone
One of the harshest truths of Cambrai is that the same tank force that helped make the opening breakthrough possible was already being consumed by the end of the first...
Cambrai: Episode 17 — The Decision to Go West
By the evening of 21 November 1917, British commanders faced a hard reality. The eastern opportunities near Marcoing and Masnières were narrowing, the canal crossings ...
Cambrai: Episode 18 — Bourlon Ridge
Bourlon Ridge became the key to the whole Cambrai campaign because it dominated the northern shoulder of the British advance. This episode explains why one stretch of ...
