It turns out that I rather liked Zaloga's "New Vanguard' number dealing with the cavalry AFVs of the French Third Republic as compared to his coverage of infantry-oriented machines. To a large degree this is due to how the various armored cars, half-tracks and scout & combat tanks fitted into a more coherent doctrinal and organizational system. Also, Zaloga reconsiders some of the verities of the French failures of 1940 to conclude that the analysis that credits the French with armored preponderance on paper probably just aren't accurate; the Germans were generally just ahead of the French in actuality when it came to mechanized warfare. Which takes you right back to the unexpected success of the German offensive through the Ardennes, that in retrospect looks like something of a fluke. At the end of the day you also know that there will be a hardbound compilation of Zaloga's Osprey writings on French armor. ( )