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LES RADIOS ALLIÉES - Volume 1 - British, American and... LES RADIOS ALLIÉES - Volume 1 - British, American and... 2
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"On 6 June 1944, on the beaches as in the hinterland, almost all orders and reports — with rare exceptions — for every combat arm were transmitted by radio-electronic links…" Celebrating human ingenuity, radio is the domain of intelligent, rigorous, innovative and open-minded individuals. Little known, radio-electronic communications nonetheless represent...
THE BLACK ANGEL OF THE GESTAPO - Normandy 1942-1944
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Who exactly was this black angel of the Gestapo in Normandy? Marie-Clotilde de Combiens, a young woman of 22 in 1943, made a name for herself by becoming the mistress of the head of the Sipo-SD branch in Caen, Harald Heyns alias Bernard. Having found each other on a train between Paris and Cherbourg, Marie-Clotilde and Bernard would complement one...
Julien Lenoir - Collaborator from Caen
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Historian Yves Lecouturier presents a new chapter in the story of collaboration in Normandy from 1940 to 1944: a portrait of one of the most significant figures of the collaboration in Caen, a city severely tried by the Battle of Normandy.
VERTICAL INFERNO HAMBURG
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INFERNO VERTICALE HAMBURG

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« Who could tell of the blood and the plagues that appeared there? The richest tongue, even repeating itself, could not achieve it. » Dante, Inferno. July 1943. The most terrible aerial operation of the Second World War in Europe is unleashed. Code name: Gomorrah. An armada of 800 Anglo-American bombers drops some 9,000 tonnes of bombs on Hamburg and its...
BLUE LIKE STEEL - US Navy Carrier Fighters in the Pacific. BLUE LIKE STEEL - US Navy Carrier Fighters in the Pacific. 2
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The Navy and the Marines entered the Second World War with barely more than a hundred single-engine fighters: Brewster F2As and Grumman F4Fs — single-role aircraft, dedicated exclusively to the defence of their bases or carriers. In the space of a few years, drawing on its formidable industrial machine, America would throw itself into the design and...
THE FOREIGN LEGION - HISTORY AND UNIFORMS 1831 - 1962
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It is through 114 uniformed mannequins from the collections of the Musée de la Légion Étrangère, and in particular those of the Musée de l'Uniforme Légionnaire in Puyloubier, together with 112 exceptional and rare collection pieces presented here for the first time, that we invite you to follow the history and evolution of Foreign Legion uniforms from its...
The Restored Honour of General Partouneaux after the... The Restored Honour of General Partouneaux after the... 2
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Or, The Affair of the 29th Bulletin of the Grande Armée It is precisely the desperate struggle of General Partouneaux's 12th Infantry Division and the 30th Cavalry Brigade under General Delaitre — attached to it just days before the crossing of the Berezina — that this work reconstructs in its entirety, drawing on the testimonies of those who fought it...
THE FIRST FRENCH ARMY - From Provence to Germany, 1944-1945
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The definitive study of the army that liberated southern France. On 15 August 1944, the First French Army landed in Provence. Numbering some 300,000 soldiers in its ranks, it liberated, that summer, the major cities of southern France. It was subsequently sent into Germany, the Alps and northern Italy. This First French Army was commanded by General de...
S-BOOTE All versions of the Kriegsmarine torpedo boats
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OUT OF PRINT SCHNELLBOOTE All versions of the Kriegsmarine torpedo boats Germany has had fast attack craft in its fleet since 1917, but it was above all during the Second World War that the Kriegsmarine put this naval asset to use. Having developed several modern versions of torpedo boats during the interwar period, it entered the conflict with a distinct...
THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 1 1918 - 1943 // From Birth to...
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OUT OF PRINT Emerging from the First World War, the Red Army bore no resemblance to a genuine professional military force and stood as an exception among Western armies. Yet its victory in the Russian Civil War allowed it to be elevated as the USSR's bulwark against external aggression… as well as a standard-bearer of world communism. In the 1930s, the...
Guide Militaria N°14 CAMOUFLAGED EQUIPMENT OF THE GERMAN... Guide Militaria N°14 CAMOUFLAGED EQUIPMENT OF THE GERMAN... 2
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In the final years of the conflict, pushed back on all fronts and acutely aware of the growing threat from the air, the German soldier — already a pioneer in this practice — elevated camouflage to the level of an art. Blending into the surroundings, becoming invisible, was a matter of survival! Drawing on ingenuity, he employed different types of colours...
Militaria Guide No.1 NORMANDY 44: GERMAN HELMETS - New... Militaria Guide No.1 NORMANDY 44: GERMAN HELMETS - New... 2
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This work presents a unique collection of camouflaged helmets worn during the fighting in Normandy. The result of individual initiative or painted in series, these helmets are impressive both for their historical significance and originality, as well as for the moving quality of a piece recovered from the battlefield. From the basic application of paint...
RESTORE AND REPAIR YOUR MOTORCYCLE - 4th Edition
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Lack of knowledge of engine mechanics and general mechanical principles, the combination of inappropriate tools and a flawed operating method, as well as a simple disassembly — or reassembly! — carried out against all common sense can prove catastrophic! That is why this work refers back to the principles of mechanics, offers advice on the choice of tools...
Infantry Weapons and Marksmanship
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This work is a reissue of a study published in 1872 by infantry lieutenant-colonel Jean Capdevielle, already under the same title: L'armement et le tir de l'infanterie, but originally published in two separate parts, one containing the text, the other bringing together in an "Atlas" a collection of plates and tables. This new edition not only reunites the...
Bonaparte's Men - The Conquest of Power, 1793–1800
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On the road to power! This work focuses on the period during which Napoleon Bonaparte established himself among the principal protagonists of the Revolution before, ultimately, seizing power. The starting point is the appearance on the scene of a young artillery officer at the recapture of Toulon from the English in 1793; the end point is the victory of...
History of Military Orders or of Knights - Book 4, From...
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This History of Military Orders or of Knights, of secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several authors specialising in the antiquity of these Orders — such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc. — authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their...
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From...
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 2, From 700...
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 1, From 400...
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
DECIMA MAS - THE LEGENDARY UNIT OF PRINCE BORGHESE
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This book tells the story of an Italian Navy unit that carried out extraordinary military operations during the Second World War. With limited resources, under the command of Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, a handful of highly trained men deployed fearsome weapons that kept the Allied high command on edge until the final days of the war. Those who would be...
The Guns of Victory 1914–1918 - Volume 1, Field...
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The French army entered the field in August 1914 with an extraordinary field gun, the 75, which was supposed to do almost everything. At that point, French ranks possessed only a very limited complement of heavy field artillery: barely three hundred guns of 120 and 155 calibre, of which only around one hundred could be considered modern. On the other...
FONTENAY-RAURAY - THE BEAR AND FOX, READY FOR THE FRAY FONTENAY-RAURAY - THE BEAR AND FOX, READY FOR THE FRAY 2
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The 49th Infantry Division and the 8th Armoured Brigade against the Panzer-Lehr-Division and the Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend" 13.6 – 1.7.1944 This book on the 8th Brigade and the 49th Division covers the fighting conducted by these two units from 13 June 1944 to 1 July 1944 on the battlefields east of Tilly-sur-Seulles: Fontenay-le-Pesnel, Tessel,...
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