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The first thirty years of as if you were
there!
Wouter Jansen will be known to many enthusiasts as the
editor of the Dutch CITROEXPERT
magazine and publisher of numerous books about our favourite
marque.
This heavyweight tome contains hundreds of hitherto
unpublished pictures from numerous enthusiasts’ collections
as well as original publicity material. But it goes
far beyond being just a collection of pictures. It is
a social document, a photographic record of the way that our
parents, grandparents and great-grandparents lived from the
early years of the mass-produced motor car through to the
immediate post war years.
The war years are covered in some depth as are Citroën’s
overseas activities in Belgium and here in Britain and it
also deals with the incredibly successful publicity machine
that André Citroën created. Every production model up
to and including the 2CV is covered, as is the legendary
22CV Traction.
The text is in French but those of you who failed to pay
attention in your French lessons should not let this put you
off. As a purely pictographic record, it is well worth
purchasing and you ought to be able to decode the picture
captions with the help of a dictionary.
Strongly recommended.
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