This title examines the emergence of the first modern tank the Renault FT. It is a little known fact that France fielded more tanks in World War I than any other army. However Frances early tanks suffered from poor mobility & armor compared to their contemporaries. Indeed their initial use on the Chemin des Dames in 1917 was a bloody fiasco. In spite of initial set-backs the French army redeemed its reputation with the Renault FT. The Renault FT pioneered the modern tank design with armament in a revolutionary central turret & the engine in the rear. More importantly the Renault was designed to be cheap & easy to manufacture. Discover the history of the early French armor developments & their triumphant new design the Renault FT that helped to turn the tide of war in the favor of the Allies. ...

The Collins French Gem Verbs offers the learner of French extensive coverage of French verbs in a compact portable format with a clear colour layout. The Collins French Gem Verbs has been written for everyone who is learning French & is the ideal text for anyone who needs a wealth of reliable verb information in a portable format. Have confidence: the Collins French Gem Verbs offers full conjugations of 112 French verbs both regular & irregular. Get it right: it also contains an alphabetical index of over 2 000 French verbs each cross-referred to its model verb. Get there fast: clear colour layout ensures that you can quickly find the information you need. ...

Hands-on exercises help you boost your verb proficiency Get the hang of French verbs & get over verb hang-ups! French verbs can drive anyone crazy whos trying to keep track of all the regular & irregular types. Fortunately this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules & drill you on the exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples exercises & conjugation charts
- just what you need to master even the toughest French verbs. Discover how to* Review regular verbs in the present tense* Cope with common exceptions* Conjugate all simple tenses from present indicative to past subjunctive* Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs* Conjugate compound tenses
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An innovative visual approach to learning & using basic French phrases. Do you need to brush up on your French for an upcoming trip? Then pick up a copy of French Visual Phrase Pack & start learning today. Whether you're visiting France for business or pleasure you'll want to be understood & this guide will ensure you are. Find key phrases fast in this effective survival language guide for real-life situations. Galleries of words & pictures make it easy to find key basic French vocabulary at a glance & help you remember what you've seen. No prior knowledge required so you can learn phrases to help you find your way around eat out shop & go sightseeing. Plus a 60-minute audio CD will help you practise before h&. An easy-to-use pronunciation guide for every word & phrase will help you communicate with the native speakers when you've arrived. So pop French Visual Phrase Pack in your pocket when you're out & about in France so you can converse with the locals without any trouble. Now with a new look. (Previous ISBN: 9781405331685). ...

This is an innovative visual approach to learning & using basic French phrases. Do you need to brush up on your French for an upcoming trip? Then pick up a copy of French Visual Phrase Book" & start learning today. Whether you're visiting France for business or pleasure you'll want to be understood & this guide will ensure you are. Find key phrases fast in this effective survival language guide for real-life situations. Galleries of words & pictures make it easy to find key basic French vocabulary at a glance & help you remember what you've seen. No prior knowledge required so you can learn phrases to help you find your way around eat out shop & go sightseeing. An easy-to-use pronunciation guide for every word & phrase will help you communicate with the native speakers when you've arrived. So pop " French Visual Phrase Book" in your pocket when you're out & about in France so you can converse with the locals without any trouble. Now with a new look. (Previous ISBN: 9781405329088)." ...

This is the book we've all (certainly every woman between 25 & 75) been waiting for. It is classy chic convincing funny wise well-written & very timely. It's the ultimate non-diet book which nonetheless shows us how to eat with balance control & above all pleasure. Chuck out all the radical diet books think about what you eat & why & then enjoy eating the right things (and some of the wrong ones) intelligently & in smaller portions. Eat like a French woman with your head not your stomach. Guiliano French-born & bred gets the tone absolutely right. She succeeds in that rare high-wire act of being really serious about her subject but without taking herself too seriously; manages to encourage & inspire & amuse without being bossy or earnest. This is a book that will make you laugh out loud & yet have you following several of her practical precepts within days
- everyone who reads it becomes evangelical (French women don't go to the gym they climb the stairs). It combines just the right balance of memoir wisdom wit delicious recipes & French common sense. Guiliano emphasizes the virtues of freshness variety personal taste enjoyment & above all portion control (research shows that dishes served in US restaurants are 25 per cent larger than those served in restaurants in France!).
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Now you can have it all all year round...' Who can resist a book that recommends love & chocolate as part of a balanced diet?' asked Allison Pearson in the Daily Telegraph about Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat a mould-breaking book that unlocked the secrets of ' The French paradox' & sold well over a million copies worldwide. By letter by email in person readers have inundated Mireille Guiliano with requests for more advice. Her answer: this buoyant new book full of advice ideas & fresh French recipes for each season. ...

Its never too soon to start teaching boys & girls a second language & this book presents pages filled with cheerful color pictures that help teach French words to English-speaking children in early grades. It presents more than 350 illustrations of familiar objects with nine pictures on each page. Every picture is labeled with its English word followed by its French equivalent. The translated word is followed in turn by a phonetic spelling in smaller type. Words are grouped according to themes such as Sports The Classroom Fruit Vegetables Party Time Weather & many others. For example the nine illustrations on the Sports page show pictures with bilingual labels for football table tennis skiing fishing gymnastics athletics cycling swimming & basketball. Heres a fun way for younger English-speaking children to build a basic vocabulary in French. ...

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- the quick & intuitive way to learn & recall everyday vocabulary in French. Whether for business or leisure this
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The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love -- & sweetness even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote Navron looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods & hidden creeks. She finds there the passion her spirit craves -- in the love of a daring pirate hunted by all Cornwall a Frenchman who like Dona would gamble his life for a moment's joy. ...