Did anyone else
see this ?
Hopefully it will be available on iPlayer. It had an operational "Honey" and a German tank from the desert war, in full working order being driven around. There was also talk of the colour of shell fire, red being our side and green and something else being German. Some very humbling descriptions of the type of war the "tankies" has before they had proper equipment. The early tanks did not have proper escape hatches leading to nervous crews. The Germans knew that they could get out in a hurry which built their confidence. There was also descriptions of how the soldiers were treated like nobodies early in the desert war leading to lack of tactics and low moral. Later on Monty actually started telling them the outline of what the battle would be where, before, that was kept secret. Made it look like the older attitude could not cut it against new German equipment and mentality which forced more responsibility being put in the hands of ordinary soldiers. There were also some profound stories from the veterans that are best watched in program. Suffice to say they made sure that the battles were not glorified or treated disrespectfully. A lot of footage I've never seen here before although I guess many of the FH experts might have already.
Most effecting of all for me was seeing tanks, that I've only seen in FH, appearing in person as it were. They have a certain presence sitting there in front of the narrator. Not sure where he had borrowed them from but it was amazing to actually hear and see them driving around.