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God and Country - Military Memoirs
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God and Country - Military Memoirs

Colliv303
€9.48
- Fairly good condition  - Paris at the secretariat of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul  - 1894
The Rafale Marine: Aboard the Combat Aircraft of the...
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The Rafale Marine: Aboard the Combat Aircraft of the French Navy

L20250126
€37.87
Entering service with the Navy in 2004, the Rafale Marine, developed by Dassault Aviation, is one of the most combat-hardened fighter aircraft in the world. Omnirole, it can perform all missions and replace up to seven types of aircraft from the previous generation. It is frequently deployed several thousand kilometres from metropolitan France, aboard the...
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Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer
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Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer

L20250125
€18.86
"I could take out that bastard with my eyes closed", proposed the British military attaché in Berlin, who laid out his plan of action to his superiors in 1939. Of the 42 documented assassination attempts on Hitler, the majority were carried out by the German resistance, which recognized early on Hitler's appetite for war. Ordinary citizens, workers,...
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Napoleon III, the Misunderstood
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Napoleon III, the Misunderstood

L20250124
€21.71
Napoleon III gave France the foundations of its modernity, yet he remains an unloved figure of the Republic. In this book, two convinced advocates rehabilitate a man and his visionary outlook for France, its society, its economy, its culture, and its influence beyond its borders. Discovering the Second Empire means immersing oneself in an effervescent era...
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Aboard the Renault FT
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Aboard the Renault FT

L20250123
€19.43
Aboard the Renault FT takes the reader on a journey through the epic story of this mythical and pioneering tank, from its design to its place in museums and collective memory today. This book is abundantly illustrated with photographs and technical plates to learn almost everything about this iconic tank. A complete study of the Renault FT, both...
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The 8th Air Force 1942–1945
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The 8th Air Force 1942–1945

L20250122
€33.18
The 8th Air Force was the first strategic air force of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) to be established during the Second World War. By mid-1944, two years after its creation, it had assembled more than 200,000 men at its bases in Great Britain and was capable of deploying for a single operation more than 2,000 four-engine bombers protected by 1,000...
Medieval Furniture - Utensils and Ceramics from 500 to 1500
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Medieval Furniture - Utensils and Ceramics from 500 to 1500

L20250121
€36.97
As the thousand years of history and civilisation of the Middle Ages continue to yield new discoveries, the furniture of that period remains poorly understood. Following our revised reprint, reworked in 2008, of Viollet-le-Duc's Mobilier médiéval, a more current and comprehensive documentation was required. Drawing on the extensive archives of our journal...
SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to... SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to... 2
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SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to Normandy

L20250120
€60.66
Charles Trang and Pierre Tiquet join forces for the fourth time to publish a work on the 10.SS-Panzerdivision "Frundsberg". Unlike previous books on this division, which focused primarily on the Battle of Normandy, this one will cover its complete history in detail, from its formation in January 1943 to its disintegration in the Spremberg pocket in April...
The Fall of Dien Bien Phu
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The Fall of Dien Bien Phu

L20250119
€18.96
« Military authorities [believed] that Communist troops would be incapable of taking Dien Bien Phu. Giap's soldiers came and it was a horror, with a tragic end beneath shellfire and torrential rain. The men waded through mud, blood, urine, excrement, rats and pestilential odours. The wounded were operated on in the midst of this charnel house, with no...
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PANZERS BERLIN 1945 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 /...
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PANZERS BERLIN 1945 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 / SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503

L20250118
€47.39
Histories of SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 « Hermann von Salza » and schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503 This reference work recounts in detail the histories of the SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 « Hermann von Salza » and the schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503 from their formation in mid-1943 to the final battles in Berlin in May 1945. The SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 was...
PANZERKOMMANDANT 001 Kurt Sametreiter
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PANZERKOMMANDANT 001 Kurt Sametreiter

L20250117
€45.50
Kurt Sametreiter's journey through the Second World War, told through his writings and personal photographs. An infantry soldier who rose to become a non-commissioned officer in the tank destroyers and then a panzer officer, Kurt Sametreiter was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross) as a member of the SS-Panzergrenadier-Division...
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BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!
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BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!

L20250116
€23.70
Memoirs of the Battle of Berlin in May 1945 by Georg Diers (Panzerkommandant Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Oskar Schäfer (Panzerkommandant and panzer officer on Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Henri Fenet (Waffen-Hauptsturmführer, SS-Grenadier-Regiment 57 of the 33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS « Charlemagne »). In the « TEMOIGNAGES POUR L'HISTOIRE »...
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Georges Bernage - A Publisher and the Witnesses of History
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Georges Bernage - A Publisher and the Witnesses of History

L20250115
€27.49
50 years of publishing From the Vikings to the Battle of Normandy and from Hastings to the D-Day veterans, our publishing house has just passed the milestone of half a century. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of this independent enterprise, with its substantial catalogue, the founder recounts what was a remarkable adventure. Born in Africa in...
French Prisoners of War 1940–1945 French Prisoners of War 1940–1945 2
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French Prisoners of War 1940–1945

L20250114
€36.97
Memories of La vache et le prisonnier with Fernandel are often the only images that come to mind when speaking of the French soldiers taken prisoner in 1940. Yet far from the cinema screen, 1.85 million of them were deprived of their liberty, imprisoned far from home and used as cheap labour. Victims of a distorted image and a French history that unfolded...
Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch
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Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch

L20250113
€23.60
On 22 April 1961, Generals Challe, Zeller, and Jouhaud — soon joined by Salan — launched a putsch in Algiers. The following day, General de Gaulle addressed the nation: "An insurrectional power has established itself in Algeria [...]. This power has an outward appearance: a handful of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of partisan, ambitious and...
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The Wars of Afghanistan
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The Wars of Afghanistan

L20250112
€24.64
Afghanistan: the epicentre of wars for two centuries. The history of Afghanistan is above all a military history — the history of a country perpetually embroiled in conflict due to foreign invasions or power struggles. It is the history of a nation that fought to assert its independence in the face of expansionist powers. Its unity and the power of its...
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General Beaufre. Father of French Strategy
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General Beaufre. Father of French Strategy

L20250111
€25.59
Born in 1902, André Beaufre joined the army as a young man. A lieutenant in the Rif where he was seriously wounded in 1925, he became a captain of Moroccan tirailleurs a decade later, before witnessing the collapse of June 1940. A fellow fugitive with General Giraud in 1942, he took part in the liberation of France. After Indochina, he became a general...
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Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis
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Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis

L20250110
€23.70
On 14 October 1962, an American aircraft spotted nuclear-tipped missiles being installed in Cuba — Soviet missiles less than 200 kilometres from the American coastline. What followed was thirteen days of arm-wrestling between the two superpowers, led by Kennedy and Khrushchev, triggering worldwide acute awareness of the nuclear threat. Thirteen days of...
Reinhard Gehlen. The Spy of the Century?
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Reinhard Gehlen. The Spy of the Century?

L20250109
€22.75
A man who operated in the shadows, Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979) navigated the most tragic hours of the twentieth century with unparalleled dexterity, moving from the Nazi secret services to those of the Federal Republic of Germany via the CIA. But who was the man long presented as the "spy of the century"? A career soldier, this committed nationalist...
André Beaufre - Combat Writings. 1939–1942
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André Beaufre - Combat Writings. 1939–1942

L20250108
€26.54
Through the Bitter Days (1938–1942), the testimony of a young officer caught up in the débâcle. Before becoming one of the most widely recognised military theorists in the world, General André Beaufre lived through the disaster of 1940 as a young officer. The four texts gathered here — "La paix-guerre (1939)", "Guerre éclair (1940–1941)", "Sic Transit...
The Atlantic Pockets and Dunkirk. 1944–1945
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The Atlantic Pockets and Dunkirk. 1944–1945

L20250107
€22.75
Forgotten battles and forgotten acts of heroism. The liberation of France cannot be reduced to the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. Far from the main front, the war continued until May 1945 around German redoubts strung along the French Atlantic coastline, from the Gironde estuary to Dunkirk. These redoubts, described as … Forgotten battles...
Lasalle - The Legacy of a Legend
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Lasalle - The Legacy of a Legend

L20250106
€18.86
A mythical figure of the Grande Armée's cavalry, Count Antoine-Charles-Louis de Lasalle fascinated generations of light cavalrymen the world over. Yet this inveterate drinker, gambler, swordsman and extravagant lover seems to have fallen victim to his own legend. Drawing on the analysis of previously unpublished archival documents, this book offers,...
Training for Shooting
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Training for Shooting

L20250105
€18.96
A handgun carrier will often find themselves, at one point or another in their journey, questioning their training. If one works within an organisation, this issue is managed by the unit's instructors, but nothing prevents additional solo training, provided it does not conflict with the doctrine of one's service. Understanding is a prerequisite for any...
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