UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE FRENCH ARMED FORCES IN WORLD WAR I

In this new book, Spencer Coil examines various models of uniforms and equipment used by the multiethnic French armed forces in the First World War.A carefully chosen and researched selection of period photographs enables the reader to visualize a climactic era in history, as experience by the Poilus (French soliders) serving in the trenches and on the battlefields.There are detailed chapters covering French machineguns, medical artillery, motor corps, infantry, chasseur, armoured car and tank units as well as the air service and the cavalry’s hussars, dragoons and cuirassiers.Other chapters examine the French foreign legion, Zouaves, and Tirailleurs.A full colour section shows heretofore unpublished photos of headdress uniforms, equipment, and accoutrements used by the French armed forces in the First World War.This work is a must for all serious historians, collectors, wargamers, model buildiers, and re-enactors.

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Product Code:	8883
Author:	Spencer Anthony Coil
ISBN:	0 7643 2269 9
Format:	320pp, over 600 b/w and colour photographs, hb.
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Our Price:	£55.00