Tank Men Quotes

“They had straddled the British trenches, ‘crushing the sides of our own trench out of shape with their machine-guns swivelling around and firing like mad.’ Their commanding officer furiously rained blows on the side of one of them with his staff cane, trying to get them to stop. Nobody knew what they were, except that they were British. ‘There was a bulge on each side with the door in the bulging part,’ observed Chaney, ‘and machine-guns on swivels poked out from either side.”
― Robert Kershaw, Tank Men

“Explosions keep crashing all over the place. All you can feel is the nightmare noise of the bombs, whose whistling becomes louder and louder the closer they get. You have the feeling that they are zeroed in precisely on you; you wait with tense muscles. The explosion comes like a relief. But then there is another one, then there are two more and ten more . . . the whistling sounds are superimposed and criss-crossed like a fabric without gaps; the explosions blend in a ceaseless thunder. When the intensity of that sound abates for a moment, you can hear yourself gasping for air. So, here we are, motionless, silent, crouched, hunched over, mouth open so that your ear-drums will not burst.”
― Robert Kershaw, Tank Men: The Human Story of Tanks at War