During the First World War, the French army developed from a heavy motorised artillery group with four batteries into a huge motorised artillery system with over 2000 heavy and powerful field artillery pieces, which accounted for almost 15 percent of the French artillery inventory.
From the development of heavy artillery with traction engines to the mobile batteries of the naval gunners and the construction of autocannons for air defence, this comprehensive history is supplemented by a detailed examination of the devices built in series as well as the rarest prototypes.
With 450 illustrations and photographs from the period and numerous unpublished documents, this book reveals a whole piece of the artillery world.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Francois, Guy
Title
L'Artillerie automobile Francaise, des origines à 1919
Details
French text, 450 photos, large format. 190 pages.
State
new
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