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THE PARAS AT DIEN BIEN PHU - 20 November 1953 - 12 March... THE PARAS AT DIEN BIEN PHU - 20 November 1953 - 12 March... 2
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THE PARAS AT DIEN BIEN PHU - 20 November 1953 - 12 March 1954

L20250150
€47.30
This book retraces with unprecedented historical rigour, day by day, the combat of the paratroopers at Diên Biên Phu, weaving together testimonies, period documents and terrain study to bring to life the hell of the battle and the heroism of the combatants. There are names that carry a particular resonance in our History. Diên Biên Phu rings in the...
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Civil Wars - From the Renaissance to the Present Day
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Civil Wars - From the Renaissance to the Present Day

L20250148
€20.85
" The greatest of evils is civil war " (Pascal) Following on from their previous successful collective work Le dernier carré, Jean-Christophe Buisson and Jean Sévillia have brought together renowned historians and journalists to recount the most significant civil wars that have disfigured the history of humanity, from the Wars of Religion that tore Europe...
The Great War Beyond the Trenches - Tannenberg,...
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The Great War Beyond the Trenches - Tannenberg, Caporetto, Tsingtao, Jutland, Togoland...

L20250147
€22.65
The Great War elsewhere and otherwise. Must the First World War be reduced to the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Swiss border and the famous trenches? The British Western Front, the German Westfront, the French front de l'Ouest — which the Grand General Staff reduced to the " North and North-East " of France — was considered the primary theatre,...
The Tragic History of the 16. Pz.-Div. During the Battle...
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The Tragic History of the 16. Pz.-Div. During the Battle of Stalingrad January 1943 -...

L20250146
€23.70
Following the first volume of La Tragique Histoire de la 16. Pz.-Div. durant la Bataille de Stalingrad Décembre 1942 - Tome 1 engaged north of Stalingrad from September to December 1942, this dying division continues fighting against the 66th Red Army until 2 February 1943, under the command of Generalleutnant Angern. Relentless, he refuses to surrender...
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Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793 Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793 2
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Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793

L20250145
€18.96
In the late summer of 1793, the French Republic stood on the brink of collapse. Engaged in a war against a powerful coalition of European states, it had suffered defeat after defeat since the spring, and on all its borders its territory was being invaded. On 8 September 1793, by seizing victory at Hondschoote in Flanders over their Anglo-Hanoverian...
1944, AMERICAN ARMOUR - From Normandy to Mons 1944, AMERICAN ARMOUR - From Normandy to Mons 2
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1944, AMERICAN ARMOUR - From Normandy to Mons

L20250144
€37.44
The decisive success of Operation "Cobra" left in the collective imagination an indelible impression of overwhelming power. Images of a wave of tanks still associated today with an all-powerful US Army. And yet! Four years earlier, in July 1940, the US Army did not possess a single tank worthy of the name, nor a single armoured division! The purpose of...
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THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC - The Second World War in Colour
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THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC - The Second World War in Colour

L20250143
€37.87
From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. From December 1941 to August 1945, the Allies — primarily the Americans — and the Japanese clashed in a war whose principal characteristic was that it unfolded across the largest ocean expanse on the planet: the Pacific Ocean. More than 8,000 km separate Tokyo from San Francisco. And while the base at Pearl Harbor, in the...
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NAPOLEON'S GREATEST BATTLES
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NAPOLEON'S GREATEST BATTLES

L20250142
€18.91
A work for understanding the strategies of the Napoleonic battles. On 18 May 1804, the Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French. A military genius and exceptional statesman, Napoleon distinguished himself through his campaigns and his great historic battles. More than a mere instrument of conquest, the Grande Armée represented the...
THE BATTLES OF THE ARDENNES - 1870, 1914, 1940. The... THE BATTLES OF THE ARDENNES - 1870, 1914, 1940. The... 2
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THE BATTLES OF THE ARDENNES - 1870, 1914, 1940. The Unexpected Fate of the French Army

L20250141
€20.85
On the eve of the three great European conflicts of 1870, 1914, and 1940, the French army enjoyed an uncontested reputation for excellence. The geopolitical context, the play of alliances, the motivations and intentions of the German adversary were certainly very different from one era to the next; yet France's military power was taken very seriously...
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The Other Landing - War Correspondents The Other Landing - War Correspondents 2
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The Other Landing - War Correspondents

L20250140
€18.96
At the heart of the summer 1944 fighting On 6 June 1944, the Allied Armada sweeping through the skies and onto the beaches of Normandy brought with it some of the most celebrated war correspondents, including photographer Robert Capa, writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway, and later Cornelius Ryan, author of The Longest Day. Women, though barred from...
Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations,...
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Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations, compromises, contradictions

L20250139
€33.18
The Collaboration, between 1940 and 1944, was not an invention of the German victor; the latter occupied, administered, persecuted and plundered, without concern for the approval of the vanquished. It was the vanquished who first resorted to this word and gave it substance in the hope — quickly turned illusion — of profiting from it. The Collaboration...
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The Soviets at War. 1939–1949
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The Soviets at War. 1939–1949

L20250138
€26.07
Over ten years, between 1939 and 1949, the USSR moved from isolated nation to superpower on equal footing with the United States. For its leaders, the Second World War was marked by a spirit of sacrifice and heroism. For the people, this period meant great catastrophes: the Shoah, the famine of 1946–1947, and civil war in Ukraine and the Baltic states....
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