When Essex engineer Roland Hopper retired he described himself as "bored to tears" and disappeared into his garden shed. Ten years later he had designed and built a highly-detailed model of a World ...

Land combat in World War II was dominated by the tank. The role of these hefty vehicles changed somewhat as the war evolved, with new models being manufactured and their weapons and defenses evolving.

The M4 Sherman, officially known as the “Medium Tank, M4,” was the most widely used medium tank of the United States military and its Western allies during the Second World War. The Sherman, which was ...