The Mephisto tank first arose as a sort of evolution of armored cars that were already starting to find a role in combat, like the British Royal Naval Air Service's Rolls Royce Ghosts of 1914.

Ten tanks were written off. None were recovered, and nothing was achieved at all. NARRATOR: Appalled by the debacle at Passchendaele, the British High Command was on the point of abandoning these ...

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...