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The First World War marked the apogee of the battleship: these giants of the seas, heavily armoured and armed, manoeuvred in squadrons of a power never previously seen.
€27.49
Out of print — Reprint April–May 2022
The history of the German U-Boote submarines, whose largest base was built at Lorient, and of their crews during the Second World War. Illustrated with more than 500 previously unpublished documents, this monograph draws on the testimonies of the few surviving submariners.
€23.22
A biography of the famous Duke of Normandy.
€13.74
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When Le Havre comes to mind, one's first thoughts turn to its port and the maritime activity that made its reputation. Few would imagine the ocean city with skies crowded with balloons, airships or fragile aeroplanes. Yet that was indeed the case in the age of aviation's pioneers. Since then, sometimes quietly, the aeronautical adventure of Le Havre has...
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Visitors of the Vexin 1944–1946. Volume 3: The Night of the Generals — The Mantes...
L20190197
€33.18
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Few people know that in 1939–1940, 10,900 balloon operators from the Armée de l'Air took part in combat operations against Germany.
€18.48
4 June 1944, 6:30 p.m., southern England.
Liaison officers board twenty-two French vessels. Locked in with the commanders, they hand them a large sealed envelope…
€71.09
This magnificent work, in the tradition of Landser, offers a genuine autopsy of a totalitarian regime. It presents a little-known facet of the SS, the Allgemeine-SS (the "General SS"), which brought together military personnel as well as civilians, including university professors and prominent figures from civil society. Its aim was to create a "total...
€37.44
The Wekusta 2 was a Luftwaffe meteorological reconnaissance unit whose history has been very little explored. It deserves closer attention. Few Luftwaffe units were permanently based in France throughout the Occupation — among them Wekusta 2, whose aircraft took off daily from Brest-Lanvéoc, Nantes-Château Bougon, Mont-de-Marsan or Bordeaux-Mérignac.
€33.18
Normandy, les Hauts-Vents, 13 June 1944, 9 o'clock… A stretched British armoured column of the 7th Armoured Division has made a deep penetration into the German front line and is about to reach one of its objectives for the day — Hill 213 on the road to Caen, three kilometres from Villers-Bocage.
€37.91
The first assault units (Sturmtruppen) were formed during the spring and summer of 1916, when the Sturmbataillon Rohr was organised and after General Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff, issued orders for the creation of specialist detachments.
€17.06
The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, fought from 13 March to 7 May 1954, was the last battle of the Indochina War. It was also the longest engagement of the conflict and one of the bloodiest.
€42.65
The history of the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team from its creation in March 1943 to the end of the Alpes-Maritimes campaign in December 1944
€52.13
Jeep, In the Tracks of Legend is a reference work on the most iconic 4x4 vehicle brand. The history and commercial career of the Jeep are faithfully traced from 1941 to the present day, and every model from the Toledo firm is meticulously detailed.
€18.96
Traces of War, Normandy 1944 is no ordinary work. 75 years after the end of the Battle of Normandy, Christophe Prime has chosen to immerse you in the heart of this tragic epic through unvarnished accounts by combatants, documents and original artefacts — some surprising, others deeply moving — collected first-hand (helmets, ocarina, walkie-talkie…).
€33.18
Built in more than 12,000 units across six main versions, operated by certain air forces into the 1970s, but above all the emblematic aircraft of the Pacific War and a true star of the small screen, the Chance Vought F4U Corsair is unquestionably one of the most famous aircraft in the history of aviation.
€28.34
Yves Buffetaut, with contributions by Bruno JurkiewiczIllustrations by Éric Schwartz
€20.85
"Where is the RAF?"
This question was the leitmotif of the troops encircled in the Dunkirk pocket and awaiting re-embarkation, as they were subjected to the relentless air raids of the Luftwaffe.
€23.65
It is important to pay tribute to those who gave their lives for Freedom in the battle of the Airwaves waged from 1940 to 1944: the clandestine radio operators. The target of a merciless campaign by the Germans, the "pianists", men and women alike, had a life expectancy of just six months...
€23.60
SECOND EDITION APRIL 2021 — 16 ADDITIONAL PAGES
The attack submarine Typ VII is certainly the most famous submarine of the Second World War.
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This army of the Kingdom of Italy was born during Bonaparte's first campaign with the formation of the Lombard and Cisalpine Legions. This army was characterised above all by a greater proportion of conscripts than volunteers.
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Based on an extraordinary collection of photographs discovered in the U-Boot submarine base at Brest at the end of the war, and kept hidden until recently in a shoebox, this exceptional book traces the complete history of a U-Boot on patrol during the summer of 1942.
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Assault guns were the first armoured breakthrough vehicles of the Waffen-SS divisions at the outset of their military history.
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Somewhat overshadowed by their British counterparts who passed into legend during the Second World War, the German commandos of the Abwehr nonetheless wrote an equally memorable epic.
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THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS Vol. 2: Operation Rösselsprung — Bosnia — Eastern Front
L20190157
€51.18
This is a very little-known subject. A battalion of Waffen-SS paratroopers was formed in autumn 1943 to carry out special missions. The author, a Luftwaffe paratrooper captain (West Germany), holding German, French and US parachute qualifications from the 1960s, who later became a historian, presents a detailed three-volume history of nearly 400 pages each.
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Following the failure at Villers-Bocage and a renewed failure at the end of June 1944 against Hill 112, in the wake of Operation Epsom (the "Battle of the Odon"), Monty launched a fresh attack against Hill 112, south-west of Caen, on 10 July 1944.
€30.33
A chronological account of the airborne attacks carried out by the 82nd and 101st US Airborne Divisions during the opening days of the Battle of Normandy.
€18.96
The Battle of Omaha holds a prominent place in collective memory because of the tragic hours that unfolded there on 6 June 1944. The Utah sector, situated at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, has received less attention.
€33.18
THESE WORLD WAR II UNIFORMS THAT BECAME ICONS
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On 6 June 1944, the Allies landed in Normandy. On 25 July, the Americans launched Operation Cobra, aimed at capturing Avranches. The first soldiers of General Patton's Third Army reached the gates of Avranches on the evening of 30 July.
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U-Boot 1942–1943
The missions of the German submarine U-172 under the command of Carl Emmermann in the Caribbean, at the Cape and at Rio.
€19.91
Panem et circenses, "bread and circus games". This expression by Juvenal, denouncing the Roman plebs whose sole ambition was the free distribution of grain and a passion for spectacles, captures quite aptly the singular character of Roman society in the age of the first emperors.
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This album presents the fighting that took place over those three decisive days between the Canadian soldiers of the 3rd Division and the soldiers of the Hitlerjugend.
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As early as 1940, the Ain — a key département on the North–South corridor — refused to accept defeat. Close to Lyon and Switzerland, it became the heart of the resistance organisation, first against Vichy and then against the Germans from 1943 onwards.
€28.39
The training of secret agents by the SOE during the Second World War. Résistance collection, by Franck Lambert.