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Tracing a route along the coasts of the Cotentin and the Channel Islands, Edmond Thin leads us to discover the most significant surviving examples of the many fortifications erected there from the era of Vauban to that of Fritz Todt. While some have entirely disappeared, many are still visible today.
€18.96
Chronological account of the liberation of the commune of Bourneville and its surroundings in August 1944. Bourneville is a Norman commune in the Eure department, located in the meanders of the Seine. This account covers the liberation of the commune during the summer of 1944 by British troops.
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Nuts & Bolts Vol 43 - Famo's Sd.Kfz. 9 18 ton Zugkraftwagen – armoured and unarmoured...
L20190220
€28.34
Nuts & Bolts Vol 43
Famo's Sd.Kfz. 9 18 ton Zugkraftwagen – armoured and unarmoured variants
€18.96
In this first issue of La Compagnie d'Elite, we immerse ourselves in the full splendour of the uniforms of the kettledrummers and trumpeters of the Military Household of Emperor Napoleon III and his Garde Impériale. This is made possible by a previously unpublished series of 36 gouaches by Pierre Conrad.
€13.74
Angela has finally reached Tinian Island, the vast "coral aircraft carrier" serving as a launch platform for a thousand B-29 Superfortresses taking off daily to rain relentless carpet-bombing on Japanese cities… There she is reunited with Taaroa, her Hawaiian crewmate, now flying a Lockheed Ventura. Continuing her investigation into the circumstances of...
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The secret history of the French signals intelligence services. 1914–1919
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OCCUPIED NORMANDY - Through the personal photographs of German soldiers 1940-1944
L20190217
€28.34
This book evokes the military occupation of Normandy from 1940 to 1944 through the eyes of the occupier and his daily life.
€37.82
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From the fighting in the Slot to the great carrier battles, from the Japanese naval air attack on Hawaii on December 7, 1941, to the destruction of the heavy cruiser Haguro by the British 26th Destroyer Flotilla in the Strait of Malacca on May 16, 1945, the Pacific War is a complex sequence of more or less well-known battles that punctuate a...
€28.44
When, in November 1945, he set foot on Indochinese soil for the first time, Marcel Bigeard did not know then, as he wrote in his Memoirs thirty years later, "that there would be many more steps to come, thousands of kilometres travelled... over long years, and that, like so many others, he would be marked for life by this captivating country".
€65.40
The history of the elite Leibstandarte division, formerly Hitler's personal bodyguard, in two volumes.Volume 1: from 1933 to 1942
€18.48
An overview of the Swiss troops who served the Royalty, the Republic, the Consulate, the Empire and the Second Empire.
€80.57
The first edition of the Dictionary of the Grande Armée was published in 2002, on the eve of the great Napoleonic military bicentennials, which took place between 2004 and 2015. Since then, a great many publications have appeared; this edition takes them into account and significantly supplements the various entries.
€17.06
Ursula Pacaud-Meindl composes here a mosaic of a turbulent era lived in Germany and in France. She bases her account on two exceptional destinies: that of her father — Eugene Meindl, the celebrated and renowned German general and commander of the II. Fallschirmjäger-Korps — and her own. Numerous letters written between 1940 and 1951 bear witness to this...
€28.44
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In this second volume, we follow the Fallschirmjäger of General Meindl in the Vire sector, facing both the Americans and the British.
€27.49
After months of relentless combat since 6 June 1944, the paratroopers of General Meindl, integrated into his II. Fallschirmjäger-Korps, had lost half their strength. Yet they still showed the same fierce determination to resist the American forces.
€28.34
Tobruk, Greece, Egypt, Libya, the Mediterranean, the Western Desert… It is in these wartime skies that French Fighter Squadron No. 1 (EFC1) made its mark. From 18 June 1940, this handful of pilots chose to follow de Gaulle and to continue the fight against Nazi Germany in the air.
€32.23
Blitzkrieg! The word conjures an all-powerful German army that crushes the democracies one by one…
€25.50
Foundation of the Chasseurs Alpins and the role of General Arvers
€33.18
Nebeltruppen, the German Army's Rocket Launchers 1939–1945. Uniforms, insignia, organisation, by Franck Bachmann and Jacques Maignon.
€26.54
The First World War marked the apogee of the battleship: these giants of the seas, heavily armoured and armed, manoeuvred in squadrons of a power never previously seen.
€27.49
Out of print — Reprint April–May 2022
The history of the German U-Boote submarines, whose largest base was built at Lorient, and of their crews during the Second World War. Illustrated with more than 500 previously unpublished documents, this monograph draws on the testimonies of the few surviving submariners.
€23.22
A biography of the famous Duke of Normandy.
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When Le Havre comes to mind, one's first thoughts turn to its port and the maritime activity that made its reputation. Few would imagine the ocean city with skies crowded with balloons, airships or fragile aeroplanes. Yet that was indeed the case in the age of aviation's pioneers. Since then, sometimes quietly, the aeronautical adventure of Le Havre has...
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Visitors of the Vexin 1944–1946. Volume 3: The Night of the Generals — The Mantes...
L20190197
€33.18
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For the first time, a book retraces the history of French nuclear aircraft, the history of their nuclear weapons and their deterrence missions carried out by the Forces Aériennes Stratégiques — the oldest command of the Armée de l'Air — since 1964, by the Force Aérienne Tactique from 1973 to 1991, and by the Marine Nationale since 1979.
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Jean Pisapia has been a collector of military vehicles and equipment since the 1970s/80s. Founding member of numerous associations such as the MVCG and l'ACPHT (Locomotion en Fête), he shares here his 20 years in the service of collecting through vivid stories and colourful anecdotes.
€27.96
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Few people know that in 1939–1940, 10,900 balloon operators from the Armée de l'Air took part in combat operations against Germany.