WW2 Tanks with James Holland

Warfare

History Hit

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4.5 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Anything that James Holland doesn't know about tanks isn't worth knowing. And in this episode from the archives, the greats are warring against each other as he counts down his top five tanks of the Second World War. Agility, climbing ability, speed and practicality are all measured to come up with this ultimate list. James Holland presents History Hit's four-part series on tanks which you can find here: https://access.historyhit.com/

First published December 2021

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0:00.0	Hello everyone I am your host James Rogers and welcome to the
0:03.4	podcast if it's your first time here this is the history hit warfare
0:07.2	podcast and we are dedicated to military history from Napoleonic battles and
0:11.5	Cold War confrontations
0:13.0	through to the Normandy landings and 9-11.
0:16.1	Now in this episode, well I don't really know what more I need to say about it.
0:19.9	It's with James Holland, one of the greatest and most popular historians of his generation,
0:25.0	and it involves me and him talking about his top five tanks.
0:30.0	You have Sherman's, you have Churchill's, you have Tigers and Pansas in there of course you do.
0:36.8	It is one hell of an episode. What James doesn't know about tanks isn't worth knowing,
0:41.6	as is evidenced by his new book on the Sherwood Rangers and his new TV series
0:47.0	with history hit TV on his favourite tanks. So here is James Holland.
0:56.0	James Holland. James, welcome to the history hit Warfare podcast.
0:59.0	How you doing today?
1:00.0	Yeah, I'm all right, but nice to see you.
1:02.0	Good to see you too. Where are you in the world currently I am in
1:05.4	St. Mores in Cornwall it's a regular trip down here to Cornwall well we try to come down here at
1:09.5	least once a year anyway very good well a well-deserved break after the new book is out
1:14.6	Congratulations Brothers in Arms, one legendary tank regiments
1:19.3	Bloody War from D-Day to V-E-Day. Is it fair to say that this book is kind of a band of
1:25.8	brothers of the Tank World? Yeah I think it is very fair to say that in fact
1:30.2	actually the inspiration for it came after a conversation with John Olaf, who was a screenwriter for some of the original brand of Brothers series.
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