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Liberating France, Invading Germany - The French Army at...

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Liberating France, Invading Germany - The French Army at the Front, 1944–1945

L20250137

€18.01

As France prepares to celebrate in 2025 the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this book recounts the final months of the conflict through the eyes of French Army photographers. Following the landings of summer 1944 and the liberation of Paris, the two armies from the west and the south joined forces in eastern France. This marked the...

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AFRIKAKORPS - The 21st Panzer Division From Libya to Tunisia

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AFRIKAKORPS - The 21st Panzer Division From Libya to Tunisia

L20250136

€36.97

Originally designated the 5. leichte Division (motorisierte), it was sent to Libya in early February 1941 to support the hard-pressed Italian forces facing the British Empire. Its intervention halted the advance of British troops. It subsequently grew in strength to become the 21. Panzer-Division. It took part in every engagement fought in Africa: El...

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Malta Spitfire - Memoirs of a Lone Wolf

L20250135

€18.01

"I never knew Navarre or Nungesser, but what I was able to learn of them — whom I deeply admired — confirms to me that Beurling was the pilot of this war they would have most admired…" It is in these terms that Pierre Clostermann, "Premier chasseur de France", the greatest French ace of the Second World War, introduces George Beurling in The Big Show. The...

THE WINGS OF ORLÉANS - The history of air base 123...

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THE WINGS OF ORLÉANS - The history of air base 123 "Commandant Charles Paoli" - Home of...

L20250133

€34.12

At the gates of the city of Orléans, air base 123 « Commandant Charles-Paoli » has been part of the Petite Beauce landscape for nearly a hundred years. As a historic site of French military air transport, it is today a major platform of the French Air Force, whose missions span the highly technological world of communications and the fascinating realm of...

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1er Régiment de Choc - Le Centre National d'Entraînement Commando

L20250132

€32.23

Under the direction of Colonel Vivien Bureu, this work retraces the history of the 1er Régiment de Choc – Centre national d'entraînement commando, an emblematic unit of the French Army since 1964. From its creation in 1964 to the present day, the 1er Régiment de Choc – Centre national d'entraînement commando has continually evolved to provide training...

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EN TUER! THE 501ST RCC IN COMBAT 1918–1945

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EN TUER ! LE 501E RCC AU COMBAT 1918-1945

L20250131

€30.33

When asked about the 501e RCC, General Leclerc replied: "The 501st has never let me down." This illustrates the close ties that existed between the 2e DB and the "501st" — the only armoured regiment of Free France and Companion of the Liberation. Its participation in the liberation of France is not the regiment's only distinguishing feature. Established...

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Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour

L20250130

€37.82

OUT OF PRINT Following a first volume (Life & Death on the Eastern Front) translated into French by Caraktère, Anthony Tucker-Jones returns with a second book of colour photographs, this time focusing on Rommel's Afrika Korps. The campaign waged by Axis forces in North Africa was seen by Berlin as an exceptional opportunity to showcase Rommel's successes...

Boemelburg - Head of the Gestapo in France

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Boemelburg - Head of the Gestapo in France

L20250129

€23.60

Karl Boemelburg took charge of the Gestapo in Paris in the summer of 1940, at the age of 55. Drawing on the connections he had established with the French police before the war, he waged a relentless campaign against the communist, Gaullist, and independent Resistance. By 1942 he commanded 2,500 men, backed by more than 30,000 French Gestapo agents. In...

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De Tribord à Bobard

L20250128

€18.01

Being born in the middle of the century of the two world wars offered the opportunity for exceptional encounters: with the ghosts of the First, with the legends of the Second in the shadow of General de Gaulle. Having become a naval officer without always quite understanding why, flights and voyages at sea followed one another amid minefields and missile...

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L'Affaire de Tunisie 1881–1883

L20250127

€23.60

From the "bandit hunt" to the Protectorate, 1881–1883. How could a reader in 1881 be informed about a war in Tunisia leading to the establishment of a "protectorate" that same year, during a period when France was in a state of intense political, industrial, economic, and artistic upheaval? The press was the only link, allowing readers to follow, almost...