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ALESIA, the Broken Alliance ALESIA, the Broken Alliance 2
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ALESIA, the Broken Alliance

L20200272
€9.24 €18.48
What will you do, Caesar, after Gergovia? You flee, forced to leave the land of the Arverni with all haste. The bridges over the Loire have been destroyed. You must cross a difficult ford to head further north, skirting the Aeduan territory, to rejoin your other legions. The legionaries are weary and wounded, and your convoy must climb ever more...
Indochina – Dien Bien Phu and the Battles of the Impossible
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Indochina – Dien Bien Phu and the Battles of the Impossible

L20200270
€36.97
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu remains the final episode of a war in Indochina in which the finest troops of the French army never ceased to display unwavering bravery and heroism. It is in this strategic basin of Upper Tonkin that a true fortified camp was established, protected by three outlying strongpoints to the North — " Gabrielle ", " Anne-Marie " and...
GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS
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GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS

L20200269
€32.23
Gallipoli, the Dardanelles — these names, almost forgotten from our history books, nevertheless mark one of the bloodiest battles in which the French Army took part during the First World War. This military campaign, contested from its very conception by the political world and decried by the general staffs, had been conceived by a single man: Winston...
THE 1ST PARACHUTE CHASSEUR REGIMENT THROUGH ITS PENNANTS...
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THE 1ST PARACHUTE CHASSEUR REGIMENT THROUGH ITS PENNANTS 1937–2019

L20200268
€36.97
With this unprecedented and richly illustrated work, the history of the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment (1st RCP) is revisited and expanded: for the first time, the combat actions and day-to-day training of the 1st RCP are recounted through the regiment's many pennants. A great number of them have weathered the storms of history into which the 1st RCP has...
The Odyssey of the Ramcke Brigade at El Alamein
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The Odyssey of the Ramcke Brigade at El Alamein

L20200265
€24.64
Fallschirmjäger in Egypt, from Bab el Katara to Mersa El Brega with war correspondent Hans Rechenberg. El Alamein. This is where Rommel's offensive, which had seemed unstoppable, was halted on the road to Alexandria in the summer of 1942. There followed long weeks of positional warfare in the sand and rock of the Egyptian desert, under a blazing sun....
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Flight Through the Air in the Middle Ages - A Historical...
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Flight Through the Air in the Middle Ages - A Historical Essay on a Scientific Utopia

L20200263
€11.61 €23.22
In medieval sources, human flight is rarely addressed directly: the catastrophic attempt by English monk Eilmer of Malmesbury, the flying machine dreamed up by Roger Bacon, or the vessel floating above the air imagined by Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme stand as celebrated exceptions. Yet the question of flight was a genuine intellectual challenge for...
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Hubert Germain - Mémoires d'un Compagnon de la Libération - Espérer pour la France Hubert Germain - Mémoires d'un Compagnon de la Libération - Espérer pour la France 2
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Hubert Germain - Memoirs of a Compagnon de la Libération - Hoping for France

L20200262
€16.11
Hubert Germain is the last Compagnon de la Libération. He shares his testimony in this work. PRIX DE L'ARMEE DE TERRE ERWAN BERGOT 2020 "I am going to need you", General de Gaulle said simply to the young Hubert Germain when he arrived in England in June 1940, among the first Free French. Hubert Germain was 19 years old, would become a Knight of the...
Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action 2
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Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action

L20200261
€11.85 €23.70
This richly illustrated volume is the culmination of a shared field experience by researchers and heads of museum institutions on what makes commemoration, yesterday and today, and also on what it does — through the practices, uses and social appropriations to which it gives rise. Volume edited by Philippe Hanus and Gilles Vergnon in partnership with the...
France 1940 – Massacred!
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France 1940 – Massacred!

L20200260
€23.70
The tragic fate of African and Indochinese soldiers in Picardy and Normandy No, this book has nothing demagogic about it — the author neither seeks to flatter nor to promote himself. Those put forward are the men themselves: the actors of the bloody fighting on the Somme in June 1940, the massacres of which African soldiers were victims, and those that...
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La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion in Combat...
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La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion in Combat 2008–2018

L20200258
€19.91
Nine officers of the French Foreign Legion have taken up the pen to recount the last decade of combat of this legendary unit. For the first time, the reader accompanies the men in their white képis in Afghanistan, French Guiana, the Central African Republic, and Mali. "Monsieur légionnaire" was everywhere France decided to fight. From training to the most...
The early days of Nazism with Emil Maurice, Hitler's...
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The early days of Nazism with Emil Maurice, Hitler's Jewish friend

L20200257
€65.40
Of Jewish origin and intimate friend of Adolf Hitler, Emil Maurice was the founder of the SA and the Stosstrupp Hitler (the forerunner of the SS). He also served as a drafter of Mein Kampf during his imprisonment at Landsberg. Through the highly singular destiny of Emil Maurice, this album covers primarily the little-known yet critically decisive period...
2. PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL. 2 - Caen-Vire-Mortain...
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2. PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL. 2 - Caen-Vire-Mortain (1 July–12 August 1944)

L20200256
€55.92
Volume II of the three-volume series covering the fate of the 2. Panzer-Division during 1944 and the Battle of Normandy traces the unit's fighting from 1 July to 12 August. Von Lüttwitz must organise a war of position against the 1st US Infantry Division at the foot of the Caumont ridge, and manage the deployment of his Panzer forces to the west and south...
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