The Encyclopedia of French Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles

Book excerpt: France, alongside Great Britain, was the birthplace of a new weapon which was to revolutionise warfare: the tank. Preceding the arrival of the tank the turn of the twentieth-century saw the earliest development of armoured weapons with the invention of the armoured cars and armoured fighting vehicles. Covering the period of the Great War to the beginning of the Second World War this fully comprehensive encyclopaedia includes: the hundred principal types of tanks and armoured cars and over 200 variants such as troop transports, poseur de pont (don't know the English technical term, if there is one - J.-M.), bomb-disposal vehicles (ditto the above), etc.. The concise text, precise genealogical tables, technical data on the most important machines, copious illustrations (including contemporary photographs and superb colour profiles) render this volume an indispensable work of reference for the tank fan. AUTHOR: Francois Vauvillier, editor of war magazine Guerre, Blindes et Materiel, is the recognised expert in engine the French army. SELLING POINTS: * An indispensable work of reference for all tank fans, filled with numerous illustrations, photographs, and colour profiles. 300 photographs