TOUS LES BLINDÉS DE L'ARMÉE FRANÇAISE des origines à 1940

When France went to war in September 1939, its rearmament effort since the adoption of the first new models of equipment in 1935 was considerable: more than 2,700 modern combat vehicles - tanks and armored cars - were delivered by factories in four years French. And 1,800 others will leave at an accelerated rate after the industrial mobilization, from September 1939 until the armistice of June 1940. This effort, at the same time unknown and totally overshadowed by the disaster, is not a spontaneous generation. It goes back to its roots in the previous war - in particular with the impressive Renault FT light tank manufacturing program - without forgetting that it was also in France that the first automobiles of armed and armored combat.

Presented one by one in an encyclopedic form, all of these materials are brought together here in an absolutely complete panorama: 100 main vehicles (combat tanks and armored cars) and 284 variants and derived materials (troop transport, bridge laying, mine-blasting tanks , etc.). A concise text and an absolute synthesis, genealogical tables of extreme precision, all the technical sheets of the main vehicles, an abundant illustration, consisting of rare period photographs and sumptuous color profiles, all on a constant scale , make this work the essential bible of the subject.