Tank Men's campaign-wide structure

Robert Kershaw's Tank Men moves from the weapon's development and the fighting in France through the Western Desert, Eastern Front, Normandy, and north-west Europe. That sequence lets readers compare technological change with combat experience across very different theatres. A dramatis personae at the front tells readers that named crewmen will carry the story. This opening is useful for understanding how Kershaw combines a campaign-wide structure with a human history of armoured warfare.