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Two Years in the Footsteps of Zamaraï Païkan, Afghan General and Hero
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Two Years in the Footsteps of Zamaraï Païkan, Afghan General and Hero

L20220114
€21.14
From Joseph Kessel to military personnel, diplomats and humanitarian workers, many French men and women have left a part of themselves in Afghanistan. These distant lands, at the borders of the imagination — dark and luminous, inhabited by people both so close and so foreign — constitute an ultimately chiaroscuro country: mythical, unclassifiable and...
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Putin's Grand Chessboard
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Putin's Grand Chessboard

L20220112
€18.77
Vladimir Putin leaves no one indifferent. Sometimes demonised by the West, sometimes admired — especially in Russia and Slavic countries — he is here to stay. On the global geopolitical chessboard, the Kremlin's leader is a grandmaster. Putin is a pragmatist. He adapts to circumstances, to the strengths and weaknesses of his adversaries.More than ever,...
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Dawn at the Gates of Hell
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Dawn at the Gates of Hell

L20220111
€21.61
DAWN AT THE GATES OF HELL tells the story of four young volunteers who enlisted in the Naval Infantry at the age of 17 — from their basic training as young soldiers to the death of some and the end of their posting at the Bab el Assa position on the Moroccan border for the others.The Algerian War was drawing to a close in 1960. The efforts of the French...
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GEOCULTURE, a Plea for Sustainable Civilizations GEOCULTURE, a Plea for Sustainable Civilizations 2
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GEOCULTURE: A Plea for Sustainable Civilisations

L20220110
€15.92
Confronted with the shock of crisis, Europe is experiencing today more than a passing weakening. The mechanical application of recipes produced by liberal and technicist ideology has caused it to lose its footing. How can decline be reversed? Where better than within itself can the forces needed to regain balance and influence be found? Is it not in the...
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On the Essential Philosophy of Military Command
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On the Essential Philosophy of Military Command

L20220109
€17.82
In Grandeurs et servitudes militaires, Alfred de Vigny defines soldiers as belonging to a "race of men always scorned or honoured beyond measure depending on whether nations find them useful or necessary". This vision of a writer who was himself a soldier reveals a genuine gap in understanding. The military world — which is, for both historical and...
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945

L20220107
€22.75
June 1940. As the French armies began a general retreat on the orders of General Weygand, Commander-in-Chief, the inhabitants of the border regions with Germany and Belgium evacuated their towns and villages before an enemy advancing rapidly.The exodus was short-lived: France signed the armistice on 25 June. A long period of occupation of national...
MALI, a Peace to Win
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MALI, a Peace to be Won

L20220106
€22.37
The war in Mali is incomprehensible unless the testimony of its direct participants is combined with an in-depth reflection on the long-term instability of the Sahel region. Mali, a Peace to be Won presents for the first time the previously unpublished accounts of officers who held operational commands during the first weeks of the engagement. These...
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Maritime Piracy: Africa Boarding
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Maritime Piracy: Africa Under Attack

L20220102
€17.54
What is the impact of piracy on the global economy? Should private companies participate in the fight against piracy? How can piracy be effectively combated? These are burning questions, as piracy in 2014 is assuredly the new scourge of the 21st century.
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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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