Proud Promise: French Autoloading Rifles, 1898-1979 by Jean Huon, R. Blake Stevens (editor) Huon

France has always cloaked her military developments, particularly those concerning Ordnance, in a shroud of secrecy. In this, until now, the French have succeeded only too well. Indeed so little that Proud Promise will literally obsolete everything in your library shelbes on the subect of military autoloading rifles and whence they came.