Alaric Searle is Professor of Modern European History, University of Salford, UK. He is the author of numerous journal articles and several books on military history, including Arm...view moreAlaric Searle is Professor of Modern European History, University of Salford, UK. He is the author of numerous journal articles and several books on military history, including Armoured Warfare: A Military, Political and Global History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), and is editor of an essay collection, Genesis, Employment, Aftermath: First World War Tanks and the New Warfare (Helion, 2015). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting professor at Nankai University, Tianjin, China.view less