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THE CATHAR DRAMA - A Tragic Epic
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THE CATHAR DRAMA - A Tragic Epic

L20240176
€11.80 €23.60
Far from the beaten track and in the light of the latest research, this book restores the page of history that, in the Middle Ages, overturned the history of southern France. It reveals the reality and simplicity of a belief rooted in medieval Christianity. The violent reaction of the Church, backed by the King of France, plunged the region into a...
AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World
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AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World

L20240175
€21.80
"Coca-Cola! Delicious! Refreshing! Stimulating! Invigorating!" On 29 May 1886, The Atlanta Journal published the first advertisement for the beverage invented a few months earlier by John Pemberton. This pharmacist from Columbus, who sold thirteen glasses a day of his soda flavoured with kola nut and cocaine, was far from imagining that, a hundred years...
THE STRATEGY OF DESTRUCTION - Allied Bombing in France, 1944
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THE STRATEGY OF DESTRUCTION - Allied Bombing in France, 1944

L20240174
€24.64
France, spring 1944. A few months before D-Day, bombing raids of unprecedented scale struck more than 70 major cities, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians within a matter of weeks and leaving countless others wounded or homeless. Since 1940, British scientist Solly Zuckerman had devised a sweeping aerial attack plan targeting the French...
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AMERICAN AIRMEN IN EUROPE, 1942 - 1945 AMERICAN AIRMEN IN EUROPE, 1942 - 1945 2
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AMERICAN AIRMEN IN EUROPE, 1942 - 1945

L20240173
€37.87
This book presents in guide form the flight uniforms and equipment used on the European front by American airmen between August 1942, the date of the first bombing mission over France, and May 1945. Through hundreds of archive photographs and objects presented in detail, this new expanded edition traces the evolution of these items of equipment, the...
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LIGHT TANKS AND HEAVY-ARMED VEHICLES - Recognition Manual LIGHT TANKS AND HEAVY-ARMED VEHICLES - Recognition Manual 2
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LIGHT TANKS AND HEAVY-ARMED VEHICLES - Recognition Manual

L20240172
€20.85
Light tanks and heavy-armed vehicles belong to the category of AFVs, Armoured Fighting Vehicles. Simple to operate, they offer great versatility and can be employed across a very wide range of missions: reconnaissance, anti-tank combat, fire support. Light tanks are designed for rapid manoeuvres, while heavy-armed vehicles are most often deployed in...
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THE LORRAINE SQUADRON Vol. 2 - From the Cold War to... THE LORRAINE SQUADRON Vol. 2 - From the Cold War to... 2
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THE LORRAINE SQUADRON Vol. 2 - From the Cold War to High-Intensity Combat

L20240171
€42.65
After the Second World War, the "Lorraine" Group returned its bombers to the Royal Air Force and rejoined the Armée de l'Air. During the following decades, the unit carried out reconnaissance missions and then night fighter missions on the Mosquito and Meteor, all-weather fighter missions on the Vautour, before finally transitioning to "pure" fighter...
BADGES AND BREVETS OF THE FIRST FRENCH PARATROOPERS 1936... BADGES AND BREVETS OF THE FIRST FRENCH PARATROOPERS 1936... 2
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BADGES AND BREVETS OF THE FIRST FRENCH PARATROOPERS 1936 - 1946

L20240170
€46.45
At the end of 1946, the badge for the "military parachuting brevet" was created. Before that date, no single badge attesting to this qualification was worn in the French army. During the hostilities and in the immediate post-war period, the vicissitudes of training French paratroopers outside metropolitan France generated a great diversity of badges...
AIR BATTLES OF THE INDOCHINA WAR AIR BATTLES OF THE INDOCHINA WAR 2
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AIR BATTLES OF THE INDOCHINA WAR

L20240169
€37.87
In the context of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, this work examines the fighting from its aerial dimension, an aspect rarely considered in existing works. It is often forgotten that Dien Bien Phu was also a battle in the air, conceived in light of the lessons drawn from the victory at Na San a year earlier and the commitments made to...
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At the Outposts - From Afghanistan to the Gates of Europe...
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At the Outposts - From Afghanistan to the Gates of Europe - Tales from the Armoured...

L20240168
€20.38
Dragons, chasseurs, cuirassiers, hussards, légionnaires, marsouins, spahis or tankistes… The cavalry soldiers have taken part in every French military operation over the past fifteen years. From Afghanistan to Africa, via the Middle East and now on the eastern flank of Europe, they hold the outposts, reconnoitring, gathering intelligence and fighting,...
National Socialist Organizations 1920–1945: Analysis of a... National Socialist Organizations 1920–1945: Analysis of a... 2
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National Socialist Organizations 1920–1945: Analysis of a Totalitarian Regime

L20240167
€65.40
From the NSDAP to the Postschutz, from the SA to the Red Cross, from the HJ to the NSBO, from the NSKK to the Kultursenat, etc., the Nazi party had blanketed the whole of German society. Here we discover precise documentation on what we think we know, as well as on organisations whose name, at best, rings a bell. This true encyclopaedia is accompanied by...
Mortain - Operation Lüttich Mortain - Operation Lüttich 2
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Mortain - Operation Lüttich

L20240166
€39.81
Mortain Operation Lüttich - 1 August 1944, the Panzers counter-attack « All was lost for Germany after the defeat at Mortain » — Kurt Dittmar, Wehrmacht general, 25 April 1945 
 Just two months after D-Day in Normandy, Operation Cobra allowed the Allies to reach the gates of Brittany in record time. Deeply pierced on its left flank, the German front in...
PANZERS NORMANDIE 44 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 17 "Götz von... PANZERS NORMANDIE 44 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 17 "Götz von... 2
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PANZERS NORMANDIE 44 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 17 "Götz von Berlichingen"

L20240165
€37.91
This detailed work recounts the history of the SS-Panzer-Abteilung 17 during the Battle of Normandy in 1944. The operations of this tank battalion of the 17.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division « Götz von Berlichingen » are far less well known than those of the other Waffen-SS armoured battalions committed during the summer of 1944. This is most likely due to its...
4th Generation Sniping
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4th Generation Sniping

L20240164
€11.37
Scoped combat shooting (TCL) Today, the effectiveness of sniping remains uncontested and its objectives remain the same as in the past: - destabilisation of the adversary; - destruction of command elements; - enhancement of fire support. On the other hand, since combat takes place at the level of small units, it must be taught down to the smallest...
Marksmanship Instruction - The Range Instructor's Manual
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Marksmanship Instruction - The Range Instructor's Manual

L20240163
€21.80
Principles and methods of basic and advanced marksmanship instruction Today a large number of professionals, in both the public and private sectors, recognise that the authors of this work have a comprehensive approach to marksmanship instruction. Marksmanship technique is now integrated, or about to be, by most major European institutions. However, they...
Tracking
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Tracking

L20240162
€11.37
With this manual, Philippe PEROTTI provides a quick yet effective learning method for the practice of tracking. Scope of application of tracking Individual and collective techniques Components of a mission Considered by some as an outdated or unreliable technique, tracking can often make the difference in the successful execution of a mission… This...
From 1 to 1000 - Sniper Rifle Shooting Techniques
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From 1 to 1000 - Sniper Rifle Shooting Techniques

L20240161
€42.65
Tactical instruction and employment of snipers. From 1 to 1000 is above all a guide for the training and employment of snipers, but it also offers a fresh perspective on sniping... A proposed employment concept ranging from the four-man team to the sniper company provides a broad overview of the operational possibilities of this specialty. The technical...
Basic Pistol Instruction
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Basic Pistol Instruction

L20240160
€18.96
Scope of competence for the pistol carrier Day / night shooting programme Simplified shooting stoppages Use of the bulletproof vest
SNIPER
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SNIPER

L20240158
€20.85
Effective, rugged and modern are certainly the adjectives that best define the author's approach to the instruction and employment of snipers. With this new work, Philippe Perotti provides the essential tools for making the most of the .338 Lapua Magnum calibre. He also develops a wide range of aspects of the specialty that significantly enhance the...
Immediate Action Techniques
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Immediate Action Techniques

L20240157
€27.49
This manual dedicated to "Immediate action techniques" complements the shooting technique manuals from the same publisher. The authors share their experience by describing, in this essentially practical work, a clear and precise method for teaching "small-unit combat techniques". Immediate Action Techniques (IAT) enable: 1 - to instruct collective...
Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP 2
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Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP

L20240156
€21.71
« I grew up in Pont-l'Évêque in the silence of what had happened under the Occupation. Of course I knew that Doctor Étienne Grandrie had been deported, as had the charcutier Émile Pidoux and the lawyer Henri Féquet. I also knew that my grandfather, Jules Letac, had been elected mayor in December 1944. But does one truly know what happens when an enemy...
14-18 - OREP 14-18 - OREP 2
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14-18 - OREP

L20240155
€27.39
"Nothing was ever the same again as it had been before…" On 4 August 1914, just over a month after the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne, Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, predicted: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." The eclipse would...
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INVASION NORMANDY 1944 INVASION NORMANDY 1944 2
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INVASION NORMANDY 1944

L20240154
€30.33
An excellent overview of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy. Approximately 670 photographs, some in colour, plus maps and documents all in colour. Here you will find the result of nearly half a century of research. Following the immense success of l'Invasion Journal Pictorial, we present here a more compact version with the same highly detailed...
Who Liberated Provence? Who Liberated Provence? 2
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Who Liberated Provence?

L20240153
€53.08
During my missions in the United States, I observed that the American public — apart from historians and people from the South, from where most of the units and GIs in the Mediterranean actually originated — was primarily captivated by Overlord and the operations launched from Normandy. This is understandable given the difference in the forces engaged,...
Stalingrad - Chronicle of a Foretold Defeat
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Stalingrad - Chronicle of a Foretold Defeat

L20240152
€28.34
Many books have addressed the Battle of Stalingrad — and for good reason: it is one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War and, in many respects, one of the turning points on the Eastern Front. Urban combat, the "war of rats", the fierce resistance of the Red Army with its back to the Volga, the encirclement of an entire German army — which then...
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HS GDA N°32 The Daggers of the SA (Sturmabteilung)
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HS GDA N°32 The Daggers of the SA (Sturmabteilung)

L20240148
€23.70
With this book, a comprehensive study of the SA daggers — the assault troops of the NSDAP — is presented to the public for the first time. This work invites you to discover, first, the pre-production daggers — rarely presented on account of their rarity — and then the service daggers produced on a large scale in their various variants and multiple...
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TRANSMISSIONS 1900–1940. History of Equipment, vol. 01
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TRANSMISSIONS 1900–1940. History of Equipment, vol. 01

L20240147
€39.81
This book grew out of a technical inventory compiled by the author, covering French military radio equipment from its origins to 1940. It focuses on the most representative sets, complementing their descriptions with a wealth of period photographs — often previously unpublished — or photographs of surviving examples that are the pride of collectors and...
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Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940 Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940 2
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Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940

L20240146
€28.34
Drawing on the experience of the Great War, women supported by militant feminists undertook a reflection on the role of women in wartime. Studies and initiatives were numerous and covered every field: the Air Force, the Army, support for soldiers, air first aid, parachuting... Before long, the "drôle de guerre" put an end to these promising deliberations...
The D-Day Ports - The Allies Nearly Faced Disaster
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The D-Day Ports - The Allies Nearly Faced Disaster

L20240145
€19.81
Recounting the history of the D-Day ports by relating events as they are commonly recorded does not allow for a full understanding of the overall arrangements established by General Morgan to carry out Operation Overlord, whose objective was the final collapse of the Reich. I It clearly distinguishes between the Normandy beaches and ports, usable in the...
PARIS Besieged 1870 War Dispatches - 1871 - Jules Claretie PARIS Besieged 1870 War Dispatches - 1871 - Jules Claretie 2
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PARIS Besieged 1870 War Dispatches - 1871 - Jules Claretie

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€142.18
Title: Paris Assiégé Author: Jules Claretie Publication date: Circa 1880–1890 A fine copy of Claretie's journal of the Siege of Paris, 1870–71. Publishers: Goupil & Cie and Jean Boussod, Manzi, Joyant et Cie, Paris, undated. In folio (26 x 33 cm). Half green shagreen binding with corners. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt fleurons and gilt title. Green...
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The Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes The Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes 2
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The Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes

L20240144
€37.44
Kampfgruppe Peiper was the spearhead of the 6. Panzer-Armee in the Ardennes, tasked with clearing the way for the German armoured thrust toward the Meuse and Antwerp. Endowed with considerable firepower, it gathered the most motivated veterans of the Third Reich. Peiper's unit was to drive forward without regard for its flanks, seizing the bridges...
The Captain Made His Escape - account of a sensational...
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The Captain Made His Escape - account of a sensational escape in the Belle Époque

L20240143
€24.64
A member of the French secret services, Captain Charles Lux was arrested on 3 December 1910 in Friedrichshafen, while preparing to infiltrate a zeppelin hangar housing the famous German airships... Tried for espionage before the High Court of Justice in Leipzig, he was convicted — despite the absence of evidence of his intentions — and sentenced to serve...
The French Navy: A World of Contrasts
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The French Navy: A World of Contrasts

L20240142
€65.31
In the French Navy, the daily life of crews is shaped by striking contrasts unknown in any other profession: modernity and tradition, obedience and command, storms and flat calms, night and day, communal life and solitary existence, vast expanses of ocean and the confinement of a closed world — all of these run through every mission and every life at sea....
Commando Kieffer – 177 Faces of D-Day
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Commando Kieffer – 177 Faces of D-Day

L20240141
€36.02
The book that gives a face back to the 177 heroes of Commando Kieffer! On 6 June 1944, at dawn, the 177 French berets of the 1st Marine Fusiliers Commando Battalion landed on Sword Beach alongside the Allies. They were the only French combatants to land on the Normandy beaches. At their head, a banker turned commando: Philippe Kieffer. Although these...
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The History of the 14 July Military Parade – In Paris,...
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The History of the 14 July Military Parade – In Paris, Since 1880

L20240140
€37.82
For nearly 150 years, on 14 July, the French army has paraded through Paris — yet the history of this ceremony, followed each year by millions of French people, has never before been told. Drawing on more than 300 rare or unpublished photographs and a wealth of archival sources, Christian Benoit analyses this event, which symbolises the bond between the...
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Red Berets – June 1944: A French S.A.S. Paratrooper's...
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Red Berets – June 1944: A French S.A.S. Paratrooper's Account

L20240139
€18.86
On the night of 5 to 6 June 1944, as the Allied armada approached the Normandy coastline, 36 Frenchmen were dropped behind enemy lines. They belonged to the 2nd Parachute Hunter Regiment attached to the British Special Air Service (the famous S.A.S.). Their mission: to prepare the arrival of their unit in Brittany. Nearly 450 French paratroopers were...
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