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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford — How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg
Scout ratingSCOUT· 24%36m·2019-12-13·History

How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · 6

In 1917, a brilliant British officer developed a way to use an emerging military technology: the tank. The British army promptly squandered the idea – but the Germans did not. Blitzkrieg, the devastating advance of German tanks across Europe in 1940, was invented by the British. This is a common story: Sony invented…

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