Field Cars - France: Books - History, Types and Construction

La Jeep dans l'Armée française (Tome 1) : 1943-1954

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Jeeps served for sixty years in the French army, participating in three major conflicts and numerous external operations. These "funny little cars" seduced the French from their arrival in Algeria in 1942, with their maneuverability, their robustness and their ability to overcome the worst obstacles.
With these wonderful cars, the French Expeditionary Force left for Italy, then France and Germany, where jeeps were omnipresent, sometimes limited by the harsh climate of the Vosges and the Alsace plain, but always ready to pounce as soon as the weather was milder.

After the peace in Europe, jeeps remained with the troops in occupation in Germany, accompanying those repatriated to North Africa or sent to Indochina. During the 9 years of the Indochinese conflict, their use was often limited to connections and convoy escorts facing an aggressive enemy and difficult terrain.
Overseas, where roads were rare and climatic conditions difficult, jeeps regained their importance thanks to their ability to overcome obstacles and their lightness, allowing them to go where a truck or an armored car could not.

This first volume describes the Jeep in the French Army in the years 1943-1954.

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Author:	Paul Gaujac
Details:	144 pages, 2.5 x 2 cm / 1 x 0.8 in, paperback
Illustrations:	250 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Histoire & Collections (F, 2023)
ISBN:	9791038013766

Le VLR Delahaye - Le véhicule de liaison et de reconnaissance de l'armée française 1946-1970

"The VLR will have to transport personnel and equipment, have the ability to easily turn around on the road and overtake columns, drive without heating in a so-called heavy and slow column, possibly on plowed ground and finally have the possibility of being armed with a light machine gun on a pivot." These are the characteristics hoped for by the French army a few months after the end of the Second World War in order to produce in France an alternative to the American jeep. Delahaye, a family company, better known for its luxury cars or its fire engines will take up the challenge.

Patrick Wagner tells you here the story over three decades of what will be much more than "the French jeep". A large chapter illustrates with its photos and drawings ALL the constituent parts of the vehicle, thus facilitating the restoration of the collected VLR.

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Author:	Patrick Wagner
Details:	196 pages, 32 x 24 x 1.8 cm / 12.6 x 9 x 0.71 in, hardback
Illustrations:	500 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Histoire & Collections (F, 2013)
ISBN:	9782352502890