After the calamitous defeat at Dunkirk during 1940, there were less than 100 tanks left in Britain. The Vauxhall Company were given just one year to design, develop and manufacture a replacement for the Matilda II. Rushed into service by a desperate military, the Churchill had many teething troubles.
It was not until 1941 that the British Army General Staff ordered a heavy cruiser tank to replace the vulnerable Crusader. With a design based around the powerful Rolls Royce Meteor, a detuned aircraft engine, the fast and agile Cromwell, which underwent several design modifications before it finally saw action at Normandy in 1944.
The story of the most produced, most used and most important US tank of World War Two. Nearly 50,000 of these superb fighting vehicles were built during the war and every allied army used the Sherman in a variety of roles in every theatre of combat throughout the world.
Documentary exploring how, during the Second World War, the Americans pulled out all the stops to build more than 6,000 Grant M3 tanks, with 75mm weapons, in less than 15 months
The Russian KV tank, which was hailed as the best of its kind when it was made in 1939, with advanced artillery and top-of-the-range armour
The T-34 was probably the most important tank to see action during the Second World War - its existence remained a well kept secret from the Germans who were shocked by its appearance on the battlefield.