The French Army of 1939 was considered by contemporaries to be the strongest army in the world at that time. In fact, as the events of the next ten months soon revealed, the Army was riddled with fatal weaknesses. In this book, the first of two volumes examining the French Army of World War II (1939-1945), Ian Sumner and François Vauvillier examine the organisation, uniforms and equipment of the army of 1939-40 and Vichy France. It includes orders of battle and formation charts as well as many illustration and colour uniform artworks.

The French Army 1939-45 (1) : The Army of 1939-40 & Vichy France (Men-At-Arms Series, 315) (Men-at-Arms, 315)

History

Sumner, Ian

Vauvillier, François

Europe

Osprey_Publishing

By 16 June 1940, De Gaulle, with the decisive support of Churchill, had come to the conclusion that, whatever happened, France could not stand to one side in the struggle against Nazi Germany. And so, Free France was born. In this companion volume to MAA 315: The French Army 1939-45 (I) , Ian Sumner and François Vauvillier examine the history, uniforms and insignia of the Free French, Fighting French and the Army of Liberation during World War II (1939-1945).

The French Army 1939-45 (2) : Free French, Fighting French & the Army of Liberation (Men-At-Arms Series, 318) (Men-at-Arms, 318)

LES CANONS DE LA VICTOIRE: Volume 3 (Les Matériels de l'Armée Française) (French Edition)

Military

Histoire and Collections

French TextThe French Army started campaigning in August 1914 with a surprising field gun, the “75”, which was supposed to do everything, alongside a very weak assortment of heavy field artillery.The level of detail reached by this book is unrivaled. For the first time since the twenties, all the materiel used by the French field artillery (light and heavy) from August 1914 to November 1918, is presented in its historical context and with its principal specifications. This small volume reviews the 40 or so different artillery patterns used by the French army on the Western front from 1914-1918: it will be followed by a second volume concentrating on extra heavy railroad artillery and other specialty weapons.See:

Les Canons de la Victoire 1914 - 1918: Tome 1: l'Artillerie de Campagne (Les Matériels de l'Armée Française) (French Edition)

French Text The crucial question of armored divisions initiated by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934 has overshadowed, vis-à-vis the general public, a major element of the development of the French Army during the period of rearmament: Yes, France had, prior to the war, light mechanized divisions (DLM) who had light tanks in name only and who, with their 300 armored vehicles, three dragoon battalions and their 36 guns, were more or less, the French equivalent of the Panzer Divisions. Better still, the concept of the DLM was born in France three years before the idea ever appeared on the other side of the Rhine. This is the story of the first of these great French units. At dawn on May 10, 1940, the 1st Light Mechanical Division springs on its goal to reach as soon as possible the Netherlands with the Giraud Army.. This plan will unfortunately fail, but the men of the 1st DLM see, through the plains of Belgium and Flanders, then in the fighting on the overturned front at the Mormal and Mont-Saint-Eloi forests, their finest hour. Having escaped from the hell of Dunkirk, many of them will live, re-armed and re-equipped, through the last battles to take place on French soil, without ever having experienced the feeling of being defeated.

La 1RE DLM Au Combat: Chars et Blindés de Cavalerie, 1939 - 1940 (L'Encyclopédie de L'Armée Française) (French Edition)

Barbanson, Erik

France, alongside Britain, represents the birthplace of a new weapon that will revolutionize the art of war: the armored tank. And even before the appearance of this new piece of armament, it was in France around the turn of the twentieth century that we see the appearance of the first armored and combat vehicles. In encyclopedic form, without forgetting any of the principal one hundred autos (tanks and armored cars) and their 200 variants and derivatives (troop transport, bridge layers, anti-mine tanks, etc..), This book offers a panorama absolutely full of all the vehicles that have succeeded or surrounded the Great War until the beginning of World War II. A detailed though concise text concise, this work offers precise tables presenting all the specifications of the primary vehicles. With abundant illustrations (rare period photographs, sumptuous color profiles) this book an essential reference for both specialists and amateurs.

The Encyclopedia of French Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles: 1914-1940

At the outbreak of WWII, the French cavalry deployed a wide number of AFVs that would be the first and the last to fight, according to the great traditions of the branch of service. In this first volume, the emphasis is put on the Renault VM light cavalry tank which had received the official confusing name of automitrailleuse de reconnaissance (AMR), i.e. recce armoued car. In fact, it was a proper tank, although very light and ill-armed (a single 7.5 mm machinegun), but fast and agile, as should be any cavalry combat vehicle. The AMRs fought gallantly in May 1940.

Les Automitrailleuses De Reconnaissance: L Amr 33 Renault

After the commissioning of the first armored reconnaissance model adopted in 1933 (AMR 33), the cavalry asked Renault for an improved version with a rear engine. It was adopted in 1935, hence the name of AMR 35. It was manufactured in multiple versions with varied weapons and two command car models equipped with radios.

Les Automitrailleuses De Reconnaissance Tome 2

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