L'armée française dans la 1ere Guerre Mondiale Vol. 2
This large hardcover book with 640 full color pages presents the incredible development of uniforms armament and equipment of the French army from mobilization in August 1914 until the armistice in 1918.
With over 1,700 color photographs and carefully selected illustrations and documents of the time and ten contemporary original color photographs ("autochromes") this book completes the work published in Vol. 1 on the French army at the outbreak of the war.
Several hundred uniforms, artifacts and weapons belonging to the Museum of the Army in Paris, other prestigious museums and rich private collections have been photographed in this magnificent book.
Access to these exceptional collections and the exploitation of archives has enabled new fields to be explored.
With astonishment the reader will discover original items never before published from such varied fields as aviation, body armors or gas masks.
The uniforms of the most senior French military commanders, including the marshal's batons of Foch, Joffre and Petain are equally presented to the public for the first time under optimal photographic conditions.
Finally, an incredible iconography of the time, consisting of nearly 400 unpublished black-and-white and 10 contemporary colored photographs from WW1 ("autochromes") drawn from the depths of private and public photograph archives make this work into an indisputable reference book on the uniforms of the French army in the First World War.
Contents:
- Foreword
- About this book
- From deprivation of winter 14 to victory in horizon-blue
- The evolution of uniform
- New colors and cutting simplification
- Confections of fortune and circumstance effects
- The horizon-blue
- The khaki of the army of Africa and the colonial army
- The evolution of clothes for hunters
- Attributes for sleeves
- The evolution of edged weapons
- The evolution of individual firearms
- Protection of the fighter
- Individual protection, prototypes
- The Adrian helmet
- The advent of new combat arms
- Military aviation
- Artillery Force
- Major players in the conflict: marshals and generals
The French texts are written by Laurent Mirouze and Stéphane Dekerle.
Printed in 2008, this book is NEW and is 10 inches x 11-½ inches ( 26 cm x 29.5 cm )
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