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War and Crisis Notebooks 2011–2013
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War and Crisis Notebooks 2011–2013

L20220101
€22.37
Through chronicles of wars, crises and analyses of burning issues, this work offers the unsparing perspective of a paratrooper officer turned business leader — a man of both action and reflection — on the years 2011–2013, which marked a major inflection point in the international context shaping the security and economic development of France and Europe....
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The End of the Gleiniger Mystery – August 1944: the Liberation of Limoges
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The End of the Gleiniger Mystery — August 1944, the Liberation of Limoges

L20220097
€21.61
On 21 August 1944, the German authorities occupying the Limousin region had a meeting at 8 p.m. with representatives of the Resistance to sign the act of surrender of the city of Limoges, thus allowing the Maquisards of Georges Guingouin, who surrounded the city, to enter without bloodshed. But there was only one German captain to receive them at the...
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The Global Oceanic Shift
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The Global Oceanic Shift

L20220096
€14.03
Over the course of just a few years, and in the greatest discretion, a genuine oceanic shift has taken place around the Iranian pivot. Even as the seas represent the space par excellence in which demographically small but technologically advanced civilisations can assert themselves, Europe, the United States and Japan have allowed their influence over the...
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Guide to National and Ministerial Orders
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Guide to National and Ministerial Orders

L20220093
€18.96
This guide is intended as the indispensable working document for all those within our central and decentralised administrations who are responsible for drawing up nomination files for our honorary distinctions on behalf of French or foreign citizens put forward for possible appointment to one of our French national or ministerial orders. The document...
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Elevated to DIGNITY — Memoirs 1923–1954
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ELEVATED TO DIGNITY - Memoirs 1923–1954

L20220092
€30.84
"Elevated to Dignity…" is the story of a young man who comes of age in the mid-1940s.His path is far from ordinary. Of very modest origins, Lucien Le Boudec had considered becoming a priest, a schoolteacher, a meteorologist, or even a civil engineer… The war decided otherwise.To escape the STO, he joins the FFI and finds himself launched into a military...
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The Second World War: The Tragedy of a Century
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World War II, the Tragedy of a Century

L20220091
€26.54
The Second World War was the most gigantic military conflict of all time, both in terms of the harshness of the fighting endured by the soldiers involved, and the malicious consequences for civilian populations and the devastating effects on homes and the organisation of territories. It shook states to their foundations and shaped the world as we know it...
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DE LATTRE – The German Campaign 1945
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DE LATTRE The German Campaign 1945

L20220090
€17.06
February 1945: General de Lattre de Tassigny and his First French Army stand before the Rhine. He is the first since Turenne and Napoleon to be in a position to cross it by force. The Americans are not in favour. No matter — supported and encouraged by General de Gaulle, he crosses the Rhine in strength on 31 March 1945 at Gemmersheim. He is about to...
Journey to the Land of Human Networks
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Journey into the World of Human Networks

L20220085
€27.49
The phenomenon of human networks — networks of influence, school networks, political networks, terrorist networks — seems more than ever to dominate the public stage. But what really lies behind these "networks" that appear in every newspaper article and on everyone's lips? After three years of patient investigative work, the author presents this study...
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The Marsouin's Handbook
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Mémento du Marsouin

L20220081
€10.43
A highly practical manual for military personnel, bringing together all essential knowledge.
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Taking Responsibility at 20! Bearing Witness Today…
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Bearing Responsibility at 20! Bearing Witness Today...

L20220077
€26.54
The author has assembled, through a vivid, alert and precise narrative, the chronological account of his conscription — 26 months in total, 15 of them in Algeria. The sections and chapters are clearly identified; those concerning Petite Kabylie form the backbone and principal theme of the work. The other sections highlight the author's determination to...
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The Gendarmerie in the Algerian War
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The Gendarmerie in the Algerian War

L20220076
€29.38
What was the real impact of the Algerian War on the French armed forces? Military operations, the means deployed, the evolving role of the army, failures, victories and internal divisions: all these subjects have already inspired countless memoirs and testimonies, and have been the principal or secondary focus of many studies. But within the broader...
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JIHAD: The Asymmetry Between Fanaticism and Incomprehension
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JIHAD, the Asymmetry Between Fanaticism and Incomprehension

L20220073
€25.59
Asymmetry remains a poorly understood concept in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Generally defined as a difference in the means employed, its essence is more subtle and defies Western principles of warfare. Unlike symmetric conflicts, asymmetry operates within a "non-zero-sum game" logic, where the tactical success of one party feeds the strategic...
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Globalisation and Defence
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Globalization and Defence

L20220071
€28.44
Valérie Pécresse, in her preface, recalls that in these times of severe turbulence we need more than ever to remain alert to the world and to know how to read it in order to act within it. The IHEDN, an institute answerable to the Prime Minister, has as one of its vocations the stimulation of reflection and debate on the crucial question of our country's...
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Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence 2
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Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence

L20220070
€36.97
Terrorism is neither an inevitability nor a doctrine. It is a method. A method placed in the service of the most diverse strategies and objectives. Even if attacks resemble one another, they most often respond to different ends. The fight against terrorism — or rather, terrorisms — requires a strategy adapted to each adversary, to its structures, its...
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Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for the Memory Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for the Memory 2
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Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for Remembrance – 114 Days in the Kabyle Maquis,...

L20220065
€27.49
A young civilian who went to Algeria in 1958 as an instructor under the Algerian schooling plan, he returned after four months of captivity in an FLN camp, which he recounts in this book. Having volunteered for the aviation service from 1959 to 1962, and after training as a nurse in Clermont-Ferrand, he became a senior manager at a specialist educational...
Artillerymen in Algeria 1954–1962 – A Challenge Met
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Artillerymen in Algeria 1954 - 1962 - A Challenge Met

L20220059
€28.25
Artillerymen in Algeria 1954 - 1962, a challenge met. This is a first-hand account relating the action of the artillery in all its components, and across all the missions it was called upon to carry out in this theatre of operations.
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Saint-Gotthard 1664: A European Battle
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Saint-Gotthard 1664, a European Battle

L20220056
€22.75
Saint-Gotthard 1664, a European Battle. The captivating story of an unjustly forgotten battle from the age of Louis XIV — the first victory over the Turks in Hungary and a remarkable example of cooperation among European armies against an aggressor.
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The Provence Landings
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The Provence Landings

L20220052
€30.33
Proceedings of the international symposium organized in Fréjus at the Centre d'histoire et d'études des troupes d'outre-mer.Edited by Antoine Champeaux and Paul Gaujac.
Women in the War 1939–1945
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Women in the War 1939 - 1945

L20220048
€26.54
The testimonies, which form the living substance of this book, were set down in writing after being recorded on camera. They constitute the audiovisual material of a documentary series in five one-hour episodes, broadcast on France 3 and Arte. « Women in the War » was released as a DVD box set distributed by Janus-diffusion in Fnac stores and video...
When Hitler's Filmmaker Fascinated France: Leni Riefenstahl
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When Hitler's Filmmaker Captivated France, Leni Riefenstahl

L20220041
€27.49
When Hitler's Filmmaker Captivated France — LENI RIEFENSTAHL. Why was Popular Front France able to hold up Nazi propaganda films such as Triumph of the Will or Olympia as models of thought or conduct? This book is not a biography of Leni Riefenstahl but a study of the reception of her films in France and of their possible influences on French society in...
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The Spy of the Siegfried Line: Armand Chouffet, Aerial Photographer
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The Spy of the Siegfried Line, Armand Chouffet, Aerial Photographer

L20220037
€26.54
.On 20 June 1940, the day Panzergruppe Guderian arrived in Franche-Comté, three Abwehr officers — German military intelligence — went to Montéchéroux, a small village in the Doubs. Their mission: to arrest Armand Chouffet, one of the French pioneers of aerial espionage. An agent of the French intelligence service from 1935 to 1940, the aviator had taken...
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Marine Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire
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Naval Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire

L20220034
€23.70
Naval Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire. This symposium addressed the question of the situation of the colonies under the First Empire and the organisation of their defence.
Operations in Europe – 6 June 1944 – 8 May 1945
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Operations in Europe - 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945

L20220032
€26.54
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Europe, it seemed essential to present to the public a major work for a better understanding of this tragic and heroic chapter of our history.General Eisenhower was the orchestrator of the most significant military operation in History. We are reissuing the mission report he submitted to his...
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A Volunteer of the Night in the Hell of the Nazi Camps
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A Night Volunteer in the Hell of the Nazi Camps

L20220030
€24.64
A Night Volunteer in the Hell of the Nazi Camps, Pierre de Froment. The text presented here is the sober and moving account, written in 1946, of the concentration camp horror he had just endured.
Saint-Cyrians in the Resistance
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Saint-Cyriens in the Resistance

L20220029
€26.54
This work compiles the proceedings of the day of historical studies held at the Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence.
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Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu 2
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Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu — 13 March – 7 May 1954

L20220028
€24.64
They were paratroopers, serving with the 8e BPC, the 2/1er RCP or the 5e BPVN, and fate brought them together at Diên Biên Phu. Fifty years after the events, they agreed to revisit their past and recount their experiences during that battle.
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