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THE FRENCH ON D-DAY
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THE FRENCH ON D-DAY

L20200111
€23.60
It is very often forgotten, but the men of Commando Kieffer were not the only Frenchmen to have taken part in the Normandy Landings. On 6 June 1944, 38 French paratroopers jumped behind enemy lines or were delivered by glider. At dawn, 177 marine fusilier commandos were the first to set foot on Sword Beach, while at sea, twelve French vessels, carrying...
LETTERS TO ELISE - A History of the Franco-Prussian War...
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LETTERS TO ELISE - A History of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 Through the...

L20200110
€23.60
Through nearly 250 previously unpublished letters, discover for the first time the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 through the eyes of Prussian soldiers: from the entry into the war to the repatriation of troops to Germany, through the first battles in Alsace and Lorraine, the fighting against the Army of the Loire, the siege of Paris, and the Commune —...
PEARL HARBOR – An Illustrated History
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PEARL HARBOR – An Illustrated History

L20200109
€18.86
7 December 1941. 7 o'clock in the morning. Japanese bombers and fighters sweep down by the hundreds on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack has one objective: to destroy the American fleet and allow Hirohito's empire to take control of the Pacific. And the operation will be a success: the raid enables Imperial Navy pilots to sink numerous...
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The Strange Capture, May 1940 – Unpublished Notebooks of...
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The Strange Capture, May 1940 – Unpublished Notebooks of a 1st Army Staff Officer

L20200108
€16.02
"That evening, a coded telegram was received from Grand Headquarters, the content of which was as follows: 'Commander Fauvelle has set out your situation to me and to Mr Paul Reynaud. I do not underestimate your difficulties. I am counting on you to save everything that can possibly be saved, in honour of the colours in your keeping.' For anyone who can...
PIN-UP WINGS VOLUME 5 PIN-UP WINGS VOLUME 5 2
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PIN-UP WINGS VOLUME 5

L20220277
€15.64
True glamour icons, pin-ups are inseparable from the history of aviation, forever synonymous with adventure and passion. Romain Hugault, a genuine devotee of the genre, is a virtuoso of this art. Between two comic pages, he delights in creating new illustrations of these ever-sprightly ladies — sometimes cheeky, but never vulgar. Painted on a fuselage, on...
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THE MAQUIS OF FRANCE – SITES OF MEMORY
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THE MAQUIS OF FRANCE - PLACES OF MEMORY

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Beyond the honours and commemorations, let us remember what the Maquis were… Who were their leaders? Why were young Frenchmen driven to resist by the compulsion of an unacceptable reality, without having fought as free men? The refusal of the STO for some, of the Occupation for others, made them outlaws in the eyes of the Vichy authorities, pushing them...
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History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End...
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History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End of the 19th Century

L20200105
€18.96
While works on the two most recent world wars abound and every aspect has been covered in exhaustive detail, it seemed important to us to republish Alfred Donéaud's work, which — without prejudging the considerable developments of the late 19th and 20th centuries — recounts with simplicity and precision the History of the French Navy from its origins to...
HISTORY OF SHIPS IN ANCIENT CHINA
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HISTORY OF SHIPS IN ANCIENT CHINA - From the Origins to the 19th Century

L20200103
€26.54
Set out to discover an unexplored world. This book is a gateway to the fascinating world of ancient China. From prehistory to the mid-19th century, this voyage through the centuries, in the company of Professor Xi Longfei, will take you from wonder to wonder. This book will make you learn and dream: the epic of the Maritime Silk Road, the invention of...
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US MARINES – Semper Fi – At the Heart of the Action
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US MARINES – Semper Fi – At the Heart of the Action

L20200102
€36.97
A celebrated elite American combat force, the Marines play a key role in American overseas operations. Subject to a very high level of readiness, the Marine Corps is unique within the American military organisation, as it can deploy air, ground and maritime assets in conflicts anywhere in the world and within very short timeframes. Among the most...
GLIÈRES 1944 – History of the Fighting in February and March 1944
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GLIÈRES 1944 – History of the Fighting of February and March 1944

L20200101
€19.91
Glières 1944. More than 60 years ago, the Battle of Glières was a "great and magnificent adventure" (Malraux) that shed the blood of more than a hundred Resistance fighters from Haute-Savoie. This episode, a symbol of Resistance to the Nazi occupation and to the Vichy Order Maintenance Forces (Milice and GMR), had never previously been examined from a...
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NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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THE NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR

L20200090
€23.70
Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt… the history of the Hundred Years' War as it is taught is punctuated solely by great land battles, chevauchées across France, and sieges of towns and fortresses. Reading these accounts, one would never imagine that this long conflict was also a naval war — that squadrons clashed at sea, that numerous merchant vessels were sunk...
ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated at Saint-Martin-de-Ré
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ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated before Saint-Martin-de-Ré

L20200089
€18.96
What cyclist riding through the salt marshes around Loix, or what summer visitor swimming at the Pointe des Sablanceaux, suspects that these peaceful places witnessed bloody clashes during an attempted conquest of the Île de Ré in 1627? That year, in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, the kingdom of Louis XIII was attempting to recover some semblance...
MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6–7 July 1794 The French Victory at Waterloo
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MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6–7 July 1794 – The French Victory at Waterloo

L20200088
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While everyone knows the Battle of Waterloo, or Mont-Saint-Jean, in 1815, few people know that this site had already seen French and Coalition armies clash in July 1794. That year, having won a success — all in all limited — at the Battle of Fleurus, the French Army of Sambre-et-Meuse under General Jourdan continued the fight to prevent the forces of the...
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AFGHANISTAN 2011–2012 The Lafayette Brigade V in Kapisa
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AFGHANISTAN 2011–2012 The Lafayette Brigade V in Kapisa

L20200087
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In 2010, the 1st Mechanised Brigade of Châlons-en-Champagne stood up Task Force La Fayette V, designated to serve the following year in Afghanistan, a state plunged for four decades into a particularly deadly conflict. It was in the majestic but extremely dangerous setting of that distant country that these men carried out their duty as soldiers with...
U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES 2
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U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES

L20200086
€23.70
The standardisation of the American army's vehicle fleet would take time before being achieved in the early 1940s. In parallel, modern and powerful signal equipment was being developed, and it had to be made mobile. Among the major vehicle families of the U.S. Army, one finds trucks, workshop trucks, vans and trailers designed by the Signal Corps,...
SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 2
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SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13

L20200085
€18.91
With this Guide Militaria and its 30 period uniforms presented on living mannequins, the author invites you to rediscover the silhouettes of French servicemen and women of the Algerian War. A representative sample covering the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Gendarmerie, without overlooking female personnel or other formations little known to the...
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THE ANGEL OF YEU VOL. 1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS THE ANGEL OF YEU VOL. 1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS 2
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L'ANGE D'YEU T1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS

L20220200
€13.74
In the Vendée, on the Île d'Yeu. In the 1930s, Ange-Clovis, a fisherman, loves his boat, the Ange d'Yeu, more than anything… More than the beautiful Agathe, his wife, more than his children… Regularly, he has strange dreams that carry him from one era to another, but they always end the same way: Yeu attacked by the Romans, by the Vikings, by the English...
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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS...
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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"

L20200083
€18.48
Through a fascinating collection of testimonies and numerous photographs from veterans of the "LSSAH" division, the German author Thomas Fischer takes us into the world — often poorly understood — of artillery… and what is more, that of the 1st Waffen-SS division! A welcome change from the Panzers or the Grenadiere, the world of the Artilleristen is just...
NATO COMBAT AIRCRAFT
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NATO COMBAT AIRCRAFT

L20200082
€37.44
This book presents in detail the combat aircraft of the air forces of every NATO member nation, whether a founding member or one that joined more recently, illustrated by more than 600 profile drawings and around 300 period photographs.
LINE INFANTRY Volume 1 - 1776–1810
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LINE INFANTRY Volume 1 - 1776–1810

L20200081
€27.96
For Napoleon, "the infantry is the soul of the army". It did indeed comprise the greater part of the combatants under arms. We shall examine closely these "pousse-cailloux" — foot soldiers who tramped across Europe in every direction for nearly a quarter of a century. With the exception of the particular case of the Imperial Guard, the French infantry...
GERMAN CIVIL & MILITARY DECORATIONS 1919–1945
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GERMAN CIVIL & MILITARY DECORATIONS 1919–1945

L20200080
€61.61
This work, without equivalent in the French language, presents all German military decorations instituted between 1935 and 1945, in the form of detailed reference sheets accompanied by high-quality photographs, by Jörg-M. Hormann, followed by the civil decorations (including those of the RAD and the Westwall, among others) presented by Volker A. Behr....
THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY
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THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY

L20200079
€13.27
The elimination of collaborators by the Resistance, outside any judicial framework, between 1943 and 1946 in Normandy Spread over three years, from 1943 to 1946, the so-called wild purge claimed around a hundred victims in Normandy. This figure must be set against the legal purge carried out between 1944 and 1947: 39 individuals were shot after being...
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INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... 2
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INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment Recover Their Colours

L20200078
€18.96
It is 1799 when the 76th demi-brigade d'infanterie, then part of the Army of Helvetia under General Masséna, lost its colours in the engagement at Sernft against the Austrians. Later incorporated into the VI Corps of the Grande Armée, the 76th Line Regiment, commanded by Colonel Faure-Lajonquière, fought at Elchingen on 14 October 1805, a victory that...
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