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JC Carbonel


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New booklet on early French tanks
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http://www.journaux.fr/revue.php?id=135660

14-18 HS n°3

By Lt-Col Paul Malmassari, French expert on early AFVs.
Study begun with pre-WW1 (18th +19th century armoured vehicles/projects) and then goes on with 1914-1915 trials , then early AFVs and finally AFV developments that were not to be.
A lot of new illustrations including many blueprints.
a must-buy if your interest is in tank origins

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Thanks for the heads-up JC. And it is a reasonable price too.

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It's offered at under 10 Euros, maybe even cheaper. But it seems to be due out in April. Looks exceedingly interesting.

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Due in April ? I bought my copy last week at Armes & Collections ...

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Oh! I found a couple of sites that said April. Then I stand corrected, JCC. Sorry.

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Ah. I see the problem. It was published in December but isn't available by mail order. Journeaux.fr says it's épuisé - sold out. But you can ask to be notified when there's a reissue.

This company says it's unavailable at the moment and expected in April.  http://livre.fnac.com/a2788587/Paul-Malmassari-L-evolution-des-chars-dans-la-Grande-Guerre

Do you know of another source, JCC?

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The problem as I see it is that it is not a book but a special issue of the 14-18 magazine.

I bought mine from Armes et collections but it is not on their site . Try asking direct :
http://www.librairie-ac.com/contact.html

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Emailed librairie-ac. No response.

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Bonsoir,

You can found it in Gare du Nord in the station press' store.
Not fare always from England by Eurostar . . .  !

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That's very helpful, Michel, but it's a bit out of my way. 1200 km aller-retour . . .

However, librairie-ac have now been kind enough to reply as follows:

Ce fascicule sera de nouveau disponible d'ici peu.

Not falling over themselves to be accommodating, but I believe that means it will be available again shortly.

Does anyone, perhaps someone in France, have a better idea?  I have Euros . .



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I found mine at my local book-store... It was the last available one !

It is an interesting book if you can read French.

EDIT : maybe there is a solution through that website : http://www.madeinpresse.fr/numero/la-guerre-14-18-hs-3-111701.html

They advertise for a digital copy... It seems that you only have to choose a non-existent bookstore and then they will sell you a digital version if I understand correctly.


-- Edited by Gurvan on Tuesday 26th of January 2010 08:39:11 PM

EDIT 2 : or try out this address :  http://www.viapresse.com/magazine-la-guerre-14-18-hs They seem to deliver to foreign countries... wink


-- Edited by Gurvan on Tuesday 26th of January 2010 08:40:53 PM

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That is extremely helpful, citizens. Thank you.

librairie-ac have just emailed to say they have it back in stock.

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Have finally got this book. It's fantastic. Lots of drawings of Schneider variants (including a light Tank), the Boirault articulated Schneiders & St. Chamonds, the Gabet Tank, et cetera. Also an earlier Delaunay-Belleville than the one that looks like a stretched FT.

I think some of the info is a bit dubious - I don't believe the French trialled a Killen-Strait, for example - but otherwise it's a gold mine.

There's also a pic and drawing of the FCM 1A that I'd not seen before. Wasn't someone asking about that a while ago?

-- Edited by James H on Friday 12th of February 2010 03:11:49 PM

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Hi James that was me, could I beg a scan of the drawing.. for research purposes only of course...

Cheerssmile

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Bonjour,

Here is some other informations about 4 photos of this book.

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net/pages1418/Pages-d-Histoire-Artillerie/Artillerie-Speciale-chars-d-assaut/grande-guerre-malmassari-sujet_743_1.htm

For the FCM 1A, the all-round triptich is in 1K91 SHD's document from Lt Colonel Duvignac.
Duvignac was lieutenant during WW1 in the Artillerie Spéciale.

I have photos of this triptich and work on it to make a good size drawings in colors . . . . It's not finish, and it's for this reason, I don't answer to last Ironsides topics on FCM 1A. . . . I would finish it before . . . Too late !).

On photo (page 73) from FCM prototype, you can see a square cupola. If you look at the post war photos in 503° RCC camp, it's a round cupola.
I am not able to say what kind of model is with square or round cupola . . . .

Paul Malmassari don't explain that the name given for CA projet with turret was CA 4.  (name given by the French tank committee).

All CA 3 and 4 triptich are in SHD 16N 2131 documents. There is 2 turrets'project for CA 4.

Michel

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Yes finally I have it now. Really very good, a must for any fan of Landships.

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With this address, it worked:

http://www.viapresse.com/magazine-la-guerre-14-18-hs




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Hedi wrote:

With this address, it worked:

http://www.viapresse.com/magazine-la-guerre-14-18-hs



That's where I got mine from. They were much more helpful than librairie-ac .

 



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Hi Tanker, Thanks very much (James too) for sending the drawings... I'm still looking for a couple of other views either as photos or drawings, rear view and top down mostly if anybody has anything...

Many Thankssmile

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