Frantsuzskie avianostsy Vtoroi Mirovoi. Stanovlenie palubnoi aviatsii - Patianin S.

By the beginning of World War II, only four maritime powers had aircraft carriers - except for Great Britain, the United States and Japan, this "elite club" included France, which was in the mid-1920s. rebuilt one of the battleships in the aircraft carrier "Bearn", on the eve of the war managed to lay the first "full-fledged" porte-avions "Joffre" and made plans to create a whole group of such ships. Why did most of these grandiose plans remain on paper, and Bearn was without a combat-ready air group by the beginning of hostilities? Why was the formation of French deck aviation so difficult and how did it prove itself in the hunt for the pocket battleship "Admiral Count Speier"? Is it rumoured that Bearn took the Republic's gold reserves to Martinique and where hundreds of tons of gold disappeared? How did the Germans, who after the surrender of France carefully studied the Joffre on the schapels and confiscated all the technical documentation, were going to use the French experience in the construction of the first German aircraft carrier, the Count tseppelin? A new book from the author of the best-selling book "French Cruisers of the Second World War" answers all these questions. The edition is illustrated with hundreds of exclusive drawings and photographs.