Third Edition of Preserved Tanks in France
Armour Archive (http://ArmourArchive.co.uk) is pleased to announce the recent publication of the Third Edition of Preserved Tanks in France.
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This is the definitive guide to armoured vehicles preserved in France as memorials and relics and in museums and collections. It has particularly detailed coverage of Normandy, but also covers the rest of France (including the Saumur Armour Museum).
Format: 154 pages, colour cover, and either colour or black and white illustrations (photographs and Normandy map).
There are three versions including a low price paperback with black and white photographs. Colour versions are also available but are significantly more expensive because of the much higher cost of manufacture - these are a paperback version and a hardback version. All versions have identical content.
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The book has the following sections:
- Normandie and the D-Day Landings
- Saumur Armour Museum
- North-East France and the Maginot Line
- Southern France and its D-Day
- Central France
- Index
It details some 450 tanks preserved in France, either as memorials - many still located where they were destroyed during the advance from D-Day to German - or in museums and collections. Over time this information will also be put online at http://PreservedTanks.com.
Here is an example excerpt from the introduction to the Normandy section (each tank has a unique identification number):
"The beach assault started at around dawn on 6 June with the Americans landing on the Omaha and Utah Beaches (the former marked by the Omaha Museum and the Sherman [242]; the latter by the Invasion Museum and the Sherman [5] and indirectly by the Sherman [3a] which is on the actual intended beach). The British and Canadians landed at Gold Beach (opposite the Sherman [7] at Arromanches-les-Bains), Juno Beach (opposite the Churchill AVRE [3] at Graye-sur-Mer, the Sherman DD [9] at Courseulles-sur-Mer and the Sexton [257a] at Ver-sur-Mer) and Sword Beach (marked by the Centaur [2a] at Hermanville-sur-Mer, the Churchill AVRE [229] at Lion-sur-Mer and the Atlantic Wall Museum at Ouistreham [241])...
This 'Falaise Gap' was not completely closed, but nonetheless the Germans lost immense amounts of equipment and 60,000 men before extricating themselves. This action is marked by the Sherman [4] at Mont-Ormel and the Falaise museum [166] and, indirectly, by the remains of the Tiger [1] at Vimoutiers and the sad trail of destroyed Free French Shermans at Ecouché [11], Le Vieux-Montmerrei [8], Forêt d'Écouves [10] and Alençon [257]."
