Les Automitrailleuses De Reconnaissance: L Amr 33 Renault
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 2915239673 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 84 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Armored recon with a French flavor Harold E. Stockton Francois Vauvillers is world reknown for being one of the best armored historians that is only approached by such American authors as Steve Zaloga and David Glantz. This book on the Renault AMR-33, and the accompanying title on the AMR-35, armored and tracked armored car for reconnaissance is a must have to understand where French Armee thinking was in its race to b. Stephen C. Pew said Great French armored car book. Although written in French, this was a fascinating read about the development of France's mechanized forces. The book gives the historical and bureaucratic facts of developing a new weapons system foir the cavalry, then briefly describes the unit histories of the units using these vehicles, and finally tells of their destruction in the Blitzkrieg. Filled with fascia
recce armoued car. 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. The AMRs fought gallantly in May 1940.. 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. 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