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Andrew Gorman


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I just ran across a Murray Leinster story from 1929/1930 called "Tanks"- not great literature but an interesting tale of the War of 1932 by way of the Great War- lots of super heavy tanks, poison gas, "fog gas" and even tracked mobile machine shops.  I enjoyed it, and it's available as a free download at Project Gutenberg-

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41481

In Astounding Stories from January, 1930.  Here's the sole illustration with some lozenge to Miyazaki-like tanks with very tall turrets:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41481/41481-h/images/illus6.jpg



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<a rel=www.gutenberg.org/files/41481/41481-h/images/illus6.jpg">
Look very Char 2C/Vickers A1E1.

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Interesting, for some reason it made me think of the tank battle in "Things to Come"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l02ZsWQE4ao

An excellent restored black and white and color version of this film:

http://www.amazon.de/H-G-Wells-Hundred-Years-come/dp/B0051KOK0A

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Sunday 6th of July 2014 12:58:47 PM

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