Serie : Joint artillery dictionary : english-french. Vol 1
Paru le 02/12/2019 | Broché 790 pages
Tout public
foreword by General François Lecointre
Joint artillery dictionary
Shells, bombs, rockets
Book 1
English/French
This bilingual dictionary is the first book of a series of three books dealing with artillery and its environment, both within a joint environment, and within the environment of a specific Service. II includes the various aspects of conventional artillery, guns, howitzers, and rockets in a land environment, guns in a naval environment, and bombs in an air environment.
As regards artillery, this terminology includes what is useful to operate within a national framework and within an international framework (coalitions, NATO) within an ever- increasing global environment.
This dictionary includes more than 10,000 words and phrases in English and in French. It also includes about 4,900 English acronyms and 1,000 French ones.
Jean-Claude Laloire is graduated from ESSEC (economics and business management) and ISUP (mathematics).
As a linguist, he has been both a translator/ interpreter in the French Ministry of Defense and a teacher at advanced military education level : Staff College/CAS3, French Joint War College (formerly CID), Center for Higher Military Studies (CHEM), and « Gendarmerie Nationale » . He has forty years' experience. As a translator, he has worked more specifically with CDEF (French Army's Forces Employment Doctrine Center).
He is an OLRAT (French Army Reserve language-expert officer) Lieutenant Colonel. He is a Commander in the Order of Merit.
