The creation of tanks changed the twentieth century, reshaped the entire political map of the world. They buried some empires and helped to be born new. In his book "Age of Tanks. The era of tanks" Igor Prokopenko not only tells the story of the appearance and development of these deadly vehicles, but also speaks of the most interesting, unusual and large-scale events in the world, one way or another related to this technique. From the book you will learn how the baptism of fire of tanks in the First World War went, how the "steel monsters" influenced the outcome of the Second, how and when a new military elite was born and how the superpower tank race took place. Igor Prokopenko also touches on modernity, and in the last section he even talks about the tanks of the future. After all, these cars still have something to surprise us, despite their more than a century of history.