author

Richard Haigh

b. 1895

A young British officer turned his firsthand experience of early tank warfare into a vivid World War I memoir. Best known for Life in a Tank (1918), he writes with the immediacy of someone who was there as this new kind of combat was taking shape.

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Life in a Tank

Life in a Tank

by Richard Haigh

About the author

Born in 1895, he served as an infantry lieutenant with the 2nd Royal Berkshire Regiment during World War I before volunteering for the British Army's new Tank Corps in December 1916.

His best-known book, Life in a Tank, was published in 1918 and draws on his experiences in training and combat through the end of the war. Contemporary catalog and audiobook sources also note that he was awarded the Military Cross and had been commissioned from Sandhurst in 1915.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his wartime service is limited in the sources I could confirm, but his memoir remains a useful firsthand account of the earliest era of tank warfare.