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INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLES (IFV) - Recognition Manual INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLES (IFV) - Recognition Manual 2
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INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLES (IFV) - Recognition Manual

L20220186
€18.91
This volume covers all modern infantry fighting vehicles in the world and their numerous variants and upgrades. Rich with over 300 photographs, it traces the history of armoured vehicles with precise dates of entry into service and presents the capabilities and technical specifications for each model. Dimensions are indicated in a practical and visual...
NUTS & BOLTS VOL 46 - Sd.Kfz. 166 - Sturmpanzer IV NUTS & BOLTS VOL 46 - Sd.Kfz. 166 - Sturmpanzer IV 2
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NUTS & BOLTS VOL 46 - Sd.Kfz. 166 - Sturmpanzer IV

L20220185
€31.18
Comprehensive study of these vehicles. The book contains 486 illustrations including 167 period photographs from the front or drawn from technical manuals, 208 colour photographs of restored vehicles with detail photoscopes, 21 colour photographs of models, 21 camouflage schemes and 69 scale drawings. Regarding volumes 19, 22, 26 and 43, one important...
KHARKOV 1942
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KHARKOV 1942

L20220184
€22.75
Champs de Bataille collection Vol. 1 "What happened in May 1942 in the steppe around Kharkov, in Ukraine? The Red Army launched an offensive that ended in enormous disaster. The Germans were once again the stronger force! But lessons would be learned, and this would prove to be the last great disaster for Stalin's troops. The work Kharkov 1942 describes,...
THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His... THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His... 2
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THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His Downfall.

L20220183
€23.70
Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique 2021; Prix du Nouveau Cercle de l'Union 2022; Le Point's list of the 30 books of the year 2021. "The" biography of Mussolini. A historical and literary event. "This book is neither a biography of Mussolini in the strict sense nor a history of Italian fascism, but the first attempt — and not only in France — to try to...
S.P.Q.R. A History of Ancient Rome
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S.P.Q.R. A History of Ancient Rome

L20220182
€10.43
The definitive history of Rome, from its foundation to its fall, by a world-renowned specialist. How did what was once an insignificant village in central Italy become the seat of an empire dominating the Mediterranean? In this major work, Mary Beard recounts the emergence and then the fall of an unprecedented culture that shaped many of our fundamental...
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National Reward Arms & Arms of Honour National Reward Arms & Arms of Honour 2
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National Reward Arms & Arms of Honour

L20220181
€18.96
« Should there be a single decoration that could be awarded for virtue, talent, and services rendered to the State? » This question was raised by the Constituent Assembly, which had just abolished all orders of the French monarchy by the decree of 30 July 1791. The Convention decided by decree (confirmed by the consular order of 4 Nivôse Year VIII — 25...
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LORETTO, NOTRE-DAME-DE-LORETTE SEEN FROM THE GERMAN SIDE
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LORETTO, NOTRE-DAME-DE-LORETTE SEEN FROM THE GERMAN SIDE

L20220180
€18.96
The battle of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette seen from the German side The terrible battle of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette seen from the German side. For the Germans as for the French, the fighting there reached an intensity rarely seen elsewhere on the front. It can be compared to that of Les Éparges, in the heights of the Meuse. The recapture of the hill, lost as early...
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1915, Dardanelles – Kemal vs Churchill
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1915, Dardanelles – Kemal vs Churchill

L20220179
€17.06
In 1915, by taking the war to the Dardanelles, Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, sought to break the deadlock of trench warfare in France and Belgium. To that end, he succeeded in convincing the British government and its allies to attempt a southern strike against the Ottoman Empire. The attack was to be carried out by the Allied navy, which...
From Leningrad to Courland 1941-1945
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From Leningrad to Courland 1941-1945

L20220178
€17.06
Barbarossa - The fighting of Heeresgruppe Nord in the northern Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 Operation Barbarossa and the war in the Soviet Union constitute the main front of World War II, the one on which the outcome of the war was decided. While accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin are countless, a narrative of the events...
THE AMERICAN FORCES IN VIETNAM 1962–1967 THE AMERICAN FORCES IN VIETNAM 1962–1967 2
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THE AMERICAN FORCES IN VIETNAM 1962–1967

L20170193
€18.91
This 4th volume of the Guides Militaria presents, in chronological order, the evolution of uniforms, equipment, and weaponry of the American soldier during the early years of the conflict, from 1962 to 1967 (the period 1968 to 1975 is covered in a second volume). All uniforms and equipment are period-original; only a few replica weapons were used. In...
Objective: Special Forces
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Objective: Special Forces

L20220004
€16.78
Joining the special forces is the objective you will achieve if you follow Matt's programme with determination. After twenty years wearing the prestigious green beret, Matt wanted to write this guide for younger people who wish to follow in his footsteps. He sought to share his experience: to provide the keys to making that dream a reality. And to build a...
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U.S. NAVY UNIFORMS IN WORLD WAR II : U.S. Naval...
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U.S. NAVY UNIFORMS IN WORLD WAR II : U.S. Naval Amphibious Forces

L2022003
€74.88
This book is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by elite and specialist units of the United States Navy during the Second World War. Collectors and history specialists will marvel at the breadth of previously unpublished texts and images covering such rarely treated subjects as pre-war landing parties, Seabees, Naval beach...
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THE WAFFEN-SS - THE GRENADIERS - Uniforms & Equipment -... THE WAFFEN-SS - THE GRENADIERS - Uniforms & Equipment -... 2
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THE WAFFEN-SS - THE GRENADIERS - Uniforms & Equipment - Volume 1

L20220002
€53.08
This work traces the history, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the Waffen-SS infantrymen (Grenadiere) between 1939 and 1945. This encyclopaedia devoted to the uniforms and equipment of the Waffen-SS infantrymen — referred to as "Grenadiere" towards the end of the war — had become essential for researchers, historians, collectors, and the many...
DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo 2
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DUNKIRK 1940 - Operation Dynamo

L20220001
€14.12
Four years before the Allied landings in Normandy, the French coastline was the scene of another major episode of the Second World War: Operation Dynamo, far less well known today than D-Day.
UNIFORMS OF THE SAPEURS-POMPIERS FROM 1700 TO THE PRESENT...
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UNIFORMS OF THE SAPEURS-POMPIERS FROM 1700 TO THE PRESENT DAY

L20160342
€37.87
The role of Sapeur-pompier only truly emerged at the beginning of the 18th century, with the invention of the hand pump. The necessity of training skilled and available technicians gave birth to the Gardes-Pompes. In order to be immediately recognisable, they required a distinctive mark. The corporate medal was succeeded by headgear — first a cap, then a...
B-17 KILLER - Memoirs of an Ace with 33 Victories
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B-17 KILLER - Memoirs of an Ace with 33 Victories

L20210205
€23.60
Heinz Knoke enlisted in the Luftwaffe in 1939, driven by passion, a taste for adventure and a sense of duty. After a brief training period, he joined the day-fighter arm and flew the Messerschmitt Bf 109. He took part in the Battle of Britain, where he faced Spitfires, then in the war against the USSR, initially with great success. He escorted convoys in...
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DUELS UNDER THE STARS - Memoirs of a Nachtjagd Pilot
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DUELS UNDER THE STARS - Memoirs of a Nachtjagd Pilot

L20210204
€23.60
LAST COPY BEFORE PERMANENT OUT OF STOCK Credited with 34 victories between 1940 and 1945, Hauptmann Wilhelm Johnen was no ordinary ace: he belonged to the very exclusive circle of Nachtjagd aces, the German night-fighter arm. Tasked with defending German airspace against Allied — primarily British — nocturnal bombing raids, these pilots led extraordinary...
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Military Emigration 1791–1815 Military Emigration 1791–1815 2
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Military Emigration 1791–1815

L20210203
€18.96
Under the direction of Hughes de Bazouges According to Fouché himself, the emigration involved approximately 150,000 individuals (when France had a population of 20 million), of whom around 20,000 bore arms, from 1791 to 1815, for their God and their King. From the royalist armies raised in 1791–1792 to individual foreign service sometimes extended until...
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

L20210200
€28.44
A revised and updated edition of this immense bestseller, in a new, even more fitting large-format coffee-table book edition. The Second World War as you have never read it before. A world first. Directed by Jean Lopez, with the collaboration of Nicolas Aubin and Vincent Bernard, and superbly presented by data designer Nicolas Guillerat, this exceptional...
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F4U CORSAIR - The Terror of the Pacific
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F4U CORSAIR - The Terror of the Pacific

L20210198
€28.34
In roughly 120 pages, aviation expert Alex Euphrosine covers the full history of the most famous American fighter of the Second World War! He explains in detail the genesis of the aircraft, its design and flight testing, before presenting each of the many variants produced during and after the conflict for the United States and other nations (including...
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THE MESSERSCHMITT BF 109 - Identification Guide VOLUME 2
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THE MESSERSCHMITT BF 109 - Identification Guide VOLUME 2

L20210197
€37.82
OUT OF PRINT Volume 1 of Messerschmitt Bf 109 approached the aircraft primarily from a technical angle, with some details covering notable operational events. What followed was the entirely legitimate curiosity of readers who, through their feedback, called for even more detail concerning the identification of all variants of this legendary aircraft, its...
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TORPEDO LOS! U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic Volume...
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TORPEDO LOS! U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic Volume 2: 1942–1945

L20210196
€37.82
From December 1941, the German submarine arm saw its operational area in the Atlantic extend all the way to the American coastline. The convoy war took on a new scale, soon spreading to engulf the Arctic and the Indian Ocean as well. In the spring of 1943, American technological innovation and industrial might, combined with the British decryption of the...
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D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants 2
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D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants

L20160322
€37.87
In 1937, Colonel de Gaulle moved from theory to practice. The man behind the "paper tank" — who in 1934 had written a veritable manifesto in favour of the armoured corps, Vers l'armée de métier, his most celebrated work — spent two years in Metz commanding a tank regiment, the 507e RCC. There, equipped with the powerful 20-tonne D 2 tanks built by...
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THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES, 1939-1940 THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES, 1939-1940 2
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THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMOURED VEHICLES, 1939-1940

L20160235
€37.87
The crucial question of armoured divisions, championed by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934 with his crusade for a professional army, had obscured from the general public a major element in the development of the French army during the rearmament period: yes, France possessed, even before the war, divisions légères mécaniques (DLM) that were light in name only....
CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC 2
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CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC

L20160252
€37.87
On that afternoon of 16 May 1940, a group of around twenty Chars B belonging to the French Army — 32-tonne vehicles each armed with a 75 mm gun and a 47 mm gun, making them the most powerful armoured materiel in existence in the world in 1940 — approached a small town that was about to enter History: Montcornet. Since the day before yesterday, the enemy...
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VODKA SQUADRON 303 Limited Edition D-Day VODKA SQUADRON 303 Limited Edition D-Day 2
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VODKA SQUADRON 303 Limited Edition D-Day

DUGAS-VDKCAV
€49.17
D-DAY VODKA FLASK Limited Edition 40° aged in Calvados casks The Squadron 303 (303rd Polish Fighter Squadron, also known as the Kościuszko Squadron) was the most formidable squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. This Polish fighter squadron was formed on 2 August 1940 and was operational by the end of that month. It scored its first...
ANCIENT WARFARE — Forty Centuries of Armed Conflict
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ANCIENT WARFARE — Forty Centuries of Armed Conflict

L20210194
€33.18
The illustrated reference book on ancient warfare Ramesses II, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Attila — who does not know these great conquerors of Antiquity? How did they wage war, how did they besiege cities, how did they feed their soldiers, where did they find the iron for their weapons, the horses for their chariots and the timber for...
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GAMELIN - The Tragedy of Ambition
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GAMELIN - The Tragedy of Ambition

L20210193
€23.70
Gamelin, or the quintessence of military disaster. Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958) remains a figure indelibly associated with the crushing defeat of May 1940. It is worth looking beyond that commonplace and asking: how did this officer, regarded as one of the most brilliant of his generation, for whom everything had succeeded since his earliest youth and who...
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The CNR Programme — National Council of the Resistance
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The CNR Programme — National Council of the Resistance

L20210192
€14.22
The Programme of the National Council of the Resistance was adopted, clandestinely and unanimously, on 15 March 1944 in occupied France. This programme "for France" remains highly relevant today by the force of its ideas. L'Esprit du Temps reissues this founding text with the preface by Stéphane Hessel, one of the signatories of the programme, written in...
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CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND PICK-UPS 1943-1944 VOLUME 2 CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND PICK-UPS 1943-1944 VOLUME 2 2
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CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND PICK-UPS 1943-1944 VOLUME 2

L20210190
€23.65
This volume, devoted to clandestine aerial operations in occupied France, reveals their incredible intensification during the second half of the Second World War. The entry of the United States into the war and the contribution of their enormous industrial potential, coupled with operations carried out from North Africa, considerably changed the picture....
CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND LANDINGS VOLUME 1 CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND LANDINGS VOLUME 1 2
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CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND LANDINGS VOLUME 1

L20210189
€23.65
This volume in the Résistance collection is devoted to parachute drops and agent pick-ups from 1940 to 1944. The author paints a striking fresco of these operations and pays a vigorous tribute to the heroes of the Resistance, drawing on his extensive personal documentation, the friendship of veterans, and close ties with numerous museum curators across...
THE FRENCH MILITARY BUTTON 1871-2021 THE FRENCH MILITARY BUTTON 1871-2021 2
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THE FRENCH MILITARY BUTTON 1871-2021

L20210188
€18.91
The uniform button is something of the poor relation of militaria collecting. Small and highly varied, the enthusiast generally seeks it out only to complete a uniform. Yet it constitutes in its own right a fully-fledged collecting theme. More than a century after the publication of Captain Falloux's work, « Le bouton d'uniforme français », a gap remained...
U.S. ARMY MEDICAL KITS 1941-1945 U.S. ARMY MEDICAL KITS 1941-1945 2
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U.S. ARMY MEDICAL KITS 1941-1945

L20210187
€33.18
From the moment the United States entered the war in 1941, they deployed considerable energy and committed a colossal budget to equip the combat troops, in order to send them to the front in the best possible conditions. The medical service took advantage of this modernisation to develop new capabilities. This evolution sought to make medical support more...
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From the Fieseler Fi 156 to the Morane-Saulnier MS 500....
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From the Fieseler Fi 156 to the Morane-Saulnier MS 500. From the Storch to the Criquet

L20210186
€50.24
A spotter for our soldiers in 1940, an artillery observation aircraft or casualty evacuation platform in Indochina and North Africa, then a glider tug in the 1960s, the Storch is now a star of air shows. We will discover together its history, its many adaptations and its exploits. The present work was carried out drawing on a large quantity of both public...
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THE WEAPONS OF THE FOREIGN LEGION FROM 1831 TO THE...
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THE WEAPONS OF THE FOREIGN LEGION FROM 1831 TO THE PRESENT DAY

L20210185
€36.97
In the Legion you make do… That is how legionnaires have always known how to get the best out of the weapons issued to them. This work presents all the small arms used by legionnaires from 1831 to the present day. The author peppers his account with numerous anecdotes illustrating how these elite soldiers put them to use. He also covers marksmanship...
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SECRET WARS: INTELLIGENCE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FROM THE...
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SECRET WARS: INTELLIGENCE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FROM THE GREAT WAR TO AFGHANISTAN

L20210184
€32.23
Secret wars have always been an inescapable reality of armed conflict and constitute one of the most subtle and refined forms of military art. Away from public scrutiny, far from the media and observers, a silent, invisible yet very real war is being permanently waged. The men who wage it serve within highly specialised units, versed in so-called...
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