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Our Baptism of Fire - August-December 1914, Unpublished...
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Among the many works devoted to the Great War, here is a fine book that stands out for four distinctive features: – It is devoted exclusively to the first four months of the war, the period subsequently known as the "war of movement", from August to December 1914, the deadliest months of the entire conflict. – It brings together only unpublished images,...
The End of the Reich - April, May 1945: Unpublished...
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On 24 March 1945, for the first time since Napoleon, foreign armies crossed the Rhine to invade German territory. The first Anglo-American elements engaged in the fierce fighting that was to open the way to the heart of the Nazi Reich. On the eastern front, the Red Army, drunk with vengeance, broke through the German defences one by one along a merciless...
Edouard Detaille - A Century of Military Glory
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Édouard Detaille embodies, single-handedly, the military painting of his era — that of the first forty years of the Third Republic. He bore witness with his brush to the hardships and greatness of his fellow soldiers of 1870. His immense talent is placed at the service of the cult of the French soldier, dominated by the heroic figure of Emperor Napoleon....
Naval History of the Second World War
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Co-edition Perrin / Ministère des Armées Hundreds of thousands of works have been written on the Second World War, in dozens of languages. Many of them do indeed address the maritime dimensions of the conflict, the role played by the Royal Navy, the Kriegsmarine and the United States Navy, the role of the various naval forces on a given theatre of...
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Charles Martel

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The victory over the Arabs at Poitiers in 732: this is about all that remains of Charles Martel in the collective memory. A mere skirmish, or a clash of civilisations that saved Europe from Islamisation? The significance of this famous battle has seen renewed interest in the current context and is the subject of vigorous debate. However, one would be...
Targeted Killings - A Critique of Armed Liberalism
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How is war waged in the 21st century? Primarily by drones, by eliminating the enemy before he can cause harm. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine or Pakistan, these operations known as "targeted killings " take place out of sight. Initially widely condemned in Europe and across the Atlantic, these practices became normalised from the 2000s onwards in the...
French Nuclear Deterrence in Action - Dictionary of a...
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French deterrence merges with the strategy for which it was designed: to keep, in sovereignty, any major war far from national territory. This mission has been unchanged since France's first nuclear test in 1960. The impetus had been given by General de Gaulle as early as 1945, but this ambition could not have been realised without the mobilisation of a...
War in the Open Sky - Iraq 1991, the Dreamed Victory
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Ideal victory or illusory victory? An idealized victory in any case, the Gulf War was born from the symmetrical confrontation of the Cold War. It is at once rooted in the 20th century and heralding today's conflicts centred on the mastery of information. The current situation in the Middle East also reveals its long-term consequences. It is therefore rich...
Summer 1870 - The War as Told by the Soldiers
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On 19 July 1870, Napoleon III fell into Bismarck's trap and declared war on Prussia. In a state of exaltation, seasoned soldiers and young recruits alike headed towards the eastern frontiers. No one could then imagine the catastrophe awaiting France. Defeated on its own territory, the country would lose Alsace and northern Lorraine before settling into a...
The French and the War of 1870
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The French and the War of 1870

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In July 2020, the country commemorated the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the War of 1870, which from 18 July 1870 to 28 January 1871 pitted France against a German coalition led by Bismarck's Prussia. Declared for a reason rooted in the Ancien Régime, this conflict is characterised militarily by extremely bloody battles that foreshadow those of the...
Memoirs of General Dietrich von Choltitz
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For our contemporaries, Dietrich Von Choltitz has the features of Niels Arestrup, who portrayed him masterfully in Volker Schlöndorff's film "Diplomatie", staging his fateful face-to-face with Swedish consul Raoul Nordling, played by André Dussollier. At the conclusion of their discussions, the military commander of Paris agrees not to carry out Hitler's...
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