When Essex engineer Roland Hopper retired he described himself as "bored to tears" and disappeared into his garden shed. Ten years later he had designed and built a highly-detailed model of a World ...

A retiree built an eight-foot-long remote-control transporter lorry complete with a tank on it as his wife had taken up golf and he was “bored to tears”. Roland Hopper, 79, used the controls to drive ...

For sale: World War Two tanks, armoured cars and planes. In perfect working order. (May have been used in the D-Day landings or the Liberation of Paris.) The Chrysler M4 Sherman was the most famous ...

Key point: The Sherman tank was useful because it was reliable but it was also not the best technology had to offer. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story. The same American tanks were ...