UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT OF FRENCH ARMED FORCES WWI

This book examines various models of uniforms and equipment used by the multi-ethnic French armed forces in the First World War A carefully chosen and researched selection of period photographs enables the reader to visualise a climactic era in history, as experienced by the poilus (French soldiers) serving in the trenches and on the battlefields. There are detailed chapters covering French machine guns, 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 A full-colour section shows heretofore unpublished photographs of headdress, uniforms, equipment and accoutrements used by the French armed forces in the First World War This work is a must for all serious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 builders and re-enactors.