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NAPOLEON'S GREATEST BATTLES
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NAPOLEON'S GREATEST BATTLES

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A work for understanding the strategies of the Napoleonic battles. On 18 May 1804, the Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French. A military genius and exceptional statesman, Napoleon distinguished himself through his campaigns and his great historic battles. More than a mere instrument of conquest, the Grande Armée represented the...
THE BATTLES OF THE ARDENNES - 1870, 1914, 1940. The... THE BATTLES OF THE ARDENNES - 1870, 1914, 1940. The... 2
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On the eve of the three great European conflicts of 1870, 1914, and 1940, the French army enjoyed an uncontested reputation for excellence. The geopolitical context, the play of alliances, the motivations and intentions of the German adversary were certainly very different from one era to the next; yet France's military power was taken very seriously...
The Other Landing - War Correspondents The Other Landing - War Correspondents 2
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At the heart of the summer 1944 fighting On 6 June 1944, the Allied Armada sweeping through the skies and onto the beaches of Normandy brought with it some of the most celebrated war correspondents, including photographer Robert Capa, writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway, and later Cornelius Ryan, author of The Longest Day. Women, though barred from...
Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations,...
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The Collaboration, between 1940 and 1944, was not an invention of the German victor; the latter occupied, administered, persecuted and plundered, without concern for the approval of the vanquished. It was the vanquished who first resorted to this word and gave it substance in the hope — quickly turned illusion — of profiting from it. The Collaboration...
The Soviets at War. 1939–1949
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The Soviets at War. 1939–1949

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Over ten years, between 1939 and 1949, the USSR moved from isolated nation to superpower on equal footing with the United States. For its leaders, the Second World War was marked by a spirit of sacrifice and heroism. For the people, this period meant great catastrophes: the Shoah, the famine of 1946–1947, and civil war in Ukraine and the Baltic states....
Liberating France, Invading Germany - The French Army at...
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As France prepares to celebrate in 2025 the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this book recounts the final months of the conflict through the eyes of French Army photographers. Following the landings of summer 1944 and the liberation of Paris, the two armies from the west and the south joined forces in eastern France. This marked the...
AFRIKAKORPS - The 21st Panzer Division From Libya to Tunisia AFRIKAKORPS - The 21st Panzer Division From Libya to Tunisia 2
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Originally designated the 5. leichte Division (motorisierte), it was sent to Libya in early February 1941 to support the hard-pressed Italian forces facing the British Empire. Its intervention halted the advance of British troops. It subsequently grew in strength to become the 21. Panzer-Division. It took part in every engagement fought in Africa: El...
Malta Spitfire - Memoirs of a Lone Wolf
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"I never knew Navarre or Nungesser, but what I was able to learn of them — whom I deeply admired — confirms to me that Beurling was the pilot of this war they would have most admired…" It is in these terms that Pierre Clostermann, "Premier chasseur de France", the greatest French ace of the Second World War, introduces George Beurling in The Big Show. The...
THE WINGS OF ORLÉANS - The history of air base 123...
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At the gates of the city of Orléans, air base 123 « Commandant Charles-Paoli » has been part of the Petite Beauce landscape for nearly a hundred years. As a historic site of French military air transport, it is today a major platform of the French Air Force, whose missions span the highly technological world of communications and the fascinating realm of...
1er Régiment de Choc - Le Centre National d'Entraînement...
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Under the direction of Colonel Vivien Bureu, this work retraces the history of the 1er Régiment de Choc – Centre national d'entraînement commando, an emblematic unit of the French Army since 1964. From its creation in 1964 to the present day, the 1er Régiment de Choc – Centre national d'entraînement commando has continually evolved to provide training...
EN TUER! THE 501ST RCC IN COMBAT 1918–1945
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When asked about the 501e RCC, General Leclerc replied: "The 501st has never let me down." This illustrates the close ties that existed between the 2e DB and the "501st" — the only armoured regiment of Free France and Companion of the Liberation. Its participation in the liberation of France is not the regiment's only distinguishing feature. Established...
Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour 2
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Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour

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€37.82
OUT OF PRINT Following a first volume (Life & Death on the Eastern Front) translated into French by Caraktère, Anthony Tucker-Jones returns with a second book of colour photographs, this time focusing on Rommel's Afrika Korps. The campaign waged by Axis forces in North Africa was seen by Berlin as an exceptional opportunity to showcase Rommel's successes...
L'Affaire de Tunisie 1881–1883
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From the "bandit hunt" to the Protectorate, 1881–1883. How could a reader in 1881 be informed about a war in Tunisia leading to the establishment of a "protectorate" that same year, during a period when France was in a state of intense political, industrial, economic, and artistic upheaval? The press was the only link, allowing readers to follow, almost...
The Rafale Marine: Aboard the Combat Aircraft of the...
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Entering service with the Navy in 2004, the Rafale Marine, developed by Dassault Aviation, is one of the most combat-hardened fighter aircraft in the world. Omnirole, it can perform all missions and replace up to seven types of aircraft from the previous generation. It is frequently deployed several thousand kilometres from metropolitan France, aboard the...
Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer
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"I could take out that bastard with my eyes closed", proposed the British military attaché in Berlin, who laid out his plan of action to his superiors in 1939. Of the 42 documented assassination attempts on Hitler, the majority were carried out by the German resistance, which recognized early on Hitler's appetite for war. Ordinary citizens, workers,...
Napoleon III, the Misunderstood
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Napoleon III, the Misunderstood

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Napoleon III gave France the foundations of its modernity, yet he remains an unloved figure of the Republic. In this book, two convinced advocates rehabilitate a man and his visionary outlook for France, its society, its economy, its culture, and its influence beyond its borders. Discovering the Second Empire means immersing oneself in an effervescent era...
Aboard the Renault FT
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Aboard the Renault FT

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Aboard the Renault FT takes the reader on a journey through the epic story of this mythical and pioneering tank, from its design to its place in museums and collective memory today. This book is abundantly illustrated with photographs and technical plates to learn almost everything about this iconic tank. A complete study of the Renault FT, both...
Medieval Furniture - Utensils and Ceramics from 500 to 1500
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As the thousand years of history and civilisation of the Middle Ages continue to yield new discoveries, the furniture of that period remains poorly understood. Following our revised reprint, reworked in 2008, of Viollet-le-Duc's Mobilier médiéval, a more current and comprehensive documentation was required. Drawing on the extensive archives of our journal...
PANZERKOMMANDANT 001 Kurt Sametreiter
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Kurt Sametreiter's journey through the Second World War, told through his writings and personal photographs. An infantry soldier who rose to become a non-commissioned officer in the tank destroyers and then a panzer officer, Kurt Sametreiter was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross) as a member of the SS-Panzergrenadier-Division...
BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!
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BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!

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Memoirs of the Battle of Berlin in May 1945 by Georg Diers (Panzerkommandant Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Oskar Schäfer (Panzerkommandant and panzer officer on Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Henri Fenet (Waffen-Hauptsturmführer, SS-Grenadier-Regiment 57 of the 33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS « Charlemagne »). In the « TEMOIGNAGES POUR L'HISTOIRE »...
Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch
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On 22 April 1961, Generals Challe, Zeller, and Jouhaud — soon joined by Salan — launched a putsch in Algiers. The following day, General de Gaulle addressed the nation: "An insurrectional power has established itself in Algeria [...]. This power has an outward appearance: a handful of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of partisan, ambitious and...
General Beaufre. Father of French Strategy
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Born in 1902, André Beaufre joined the army as a young man. A lieutenant in the Rif where he was seriously wounded in 1925, he became a captain of Moroccan tirailleurs a decade later, before witnessing the collapse of June 1940. A fellow fugitive with General Giraud in 1942, he took part in the liberation of France. After Indochina, he became a general...
Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis
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Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis

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On 14 October 1962, an American aircraft spotted nuclear-tipped missiles being installed in Cuba — Soviet missiles less than 200 kilometres from the American coastline. What followed was thirteen days of arm-wrestling between the two superpowers, led by Kennedy and Khrushchev, triggering worldwide acute awareness of the nuclear threat. Thirteen days of...
Reinhard Gehlen. The Spy of the Century?
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A man who operated in the shadows, Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979) navigated the most tragic hours of the twentieth century with unparalleled dexterity, moving from the Nazi secret services to those of the Federal Republic of Germany via the CIA. But who was the man long presented as the "spy of the century"? A career soldier, this committed nationalist...
André Beaufre - Combat Writings. 1939–1942
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Through the Bitter Days (1938–1942), the testimony of a young officer caught up in the débâcle. Before becoming one of the most widely recognised military theorists in the world, General André Beaufre lived through the disaster of 1940 as a young officer. The four texts gathered here — "La paix-guerre (1939)", "Guerre éclair (1940–1941)", "Sic Transit...
Lasalle - The Legacy of a Legend
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A mythical figure of the Grande Armée's cavalry, Count Antoine-Charles-Louis de Lasalle fascinated generations of light cavalrymen the world over. Yet this inveterate drinker, gambler, swordsman and extravagant lover seems to have fallen victim to his own legend. Drawing on the analysis of previously unpublished archival documents, this book offers,...
CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part IV –... CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part IV –... 2
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This volume traces in images the epic story of the 101st Airborne Division during its first combat jump in history. This fourth volume in the Carentan series — conceived as a monumental fresco in ten volumes (more than 3,000 pages and 4,000 photographs) — takes you into the very first hours of D-Day, around drop zone C, at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and...
TO EARN THE GREEN BERET 1941 - 1944 TO EARN THE GREEN BERET 1941 - 1944 2
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This book recounts how, sometimes at the cost of their lives, young Frenchmen refused to accept defeat and above all the shameful armistice of 22 June 1940. Some of these future commandos, who had endured German oppression and then the harassment and lies of Vichy propaganda, decided to leave France — sometimes by deserting from the Marine Nationale, for...
JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... 2
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Second volume of the exceptional study on the events and fighting that took place in the Côte-d'Or during June 1940. These two books will take you day by day through the incredible and terrible history of the Côte-d'Or in 1940: the history of war, fire and blood. In this context of total chaos, fleeing the fighting, on the roads of the exodus, tens of...
JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... 2
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An exceptional study to be published in two volumes on the events that took place in the Côte-d'Or in May 1940. This book will take you day by day through the incredible and terrible history of the Côte-d'Or in 1940: the history of war, fire and chaos. Fleeing the fighting, on the roads of the exodus, tens of thousands of civilians crossed the region. For...
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