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ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated at Saint-Martin-de-Ré
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What cyclist riding through the salt marshes around Loix, or what summer visitor swimming at the Pointe des Sablanceaux, suspects that these peaceful places witnessed bloody clashes during an attempted conquest of the Île de Ré in 1627? That year, in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, the kingdom of Louis XIII was attempting to recover some semblance...
MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6–7 July 1794 The French Victory at Waterloo
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While everyone knows the Battle of Waterloo, or Mont-Saint-Jean, in 1815, few people know that this site had already seen French and Coalition armies clash in July 1794. That year, having won a success — all in all limited — at the Battle of Fleurus, the French Army of Sambre-et-Meuse under General Jourdan continued the fight to prevent the forces of the...
AFGHANISTAN 2011–2012 The Lafayette Brigade V in Kapisa
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In 2010, the 1st Mechanised Brigade of Châlons-en-Champagne stood up Task Force La Fayette V, designated to serve the following year in Afghanistan, a state plunged for four decades into a particularly deadly conflict. It was in the majestic but extremely dangerous setting of that distant country that these men carried out their duty as soldiers with...
U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES 2
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U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES

L20200086
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The standardisation of the American army's vehicle fleet would take time before being achieved in the early 1940s. In parallel, modern and powerful signal equipment was being developed, and it had to be made mobile. Among the major vehicle families of the U.S. Army, one finds trucks, workshop trucks, vans and trailers designed by the Signal Corps,...
SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 2
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With this Guide Militaria and its 30 period uniforms presented on living mannequins, the author invites you to rediscover the silhouettes of French servicemen and women of the Algerian War. A representative sample covering the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Gendarmerie, without overlooking female personnel or other formations little known to the...
THE ANGEL OF YEU VOL. 1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS THE ANGEL OF YEU VOL. 1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS 2
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In the Vendée, on the Île d'Yeu. In the 1930s, Ange-Clovis, a fisherman, loves his boat, the Ange d'Yeu, more than anything… More than the beautiful Agathe, his wife, more than his children… Regularly, he has strange dreams that carry him from one era to another, but they always end the same way: Yeu attacked by the Romans, by the Vikings, by the English...
GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS...
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Through a fascinating collection of testimonies and numerous photographs from veterans of the "LSSAH" division, the German author Thomas Fischer takes us into the world — often poorly understood — of artillery… and what is more, that of the 1st Waffen-SS division! A welcome change from the Panzers or the Grenadiere, the world of the Artilleristen is just...
NATO COMBAT AIRCRAFT
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NATO COMBAT AIRCRAFT

L20200082
€37.44
This book presents in detail the combat aircraft of the air forces of every NATO member nation, whether a founding member or one that joined more recently, illustrated by more than 600 profile drawings and around 300 period photographs.
LINE INFANTRY Volume 1 - 1776–1810
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For Napoleon, "the infantry is the soul of the army". It did indeed comprise the greater part of the combatants under arms. We shall examine closely these "pousse-cailloux" — foot soldiers who tramped across Europe in every direction for nearly a quarter of a century. With the exception of the particular case of the Imperial Guard, the French infantry...
THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY
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THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY

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The elimination of collaborators by the Resistance, outside any judicial framework, between 1943 and 1946 in Normandy Spread over three years, from 1943 to 1946, the so-called wild purge claimed around a hundred victims in Normandy. This figure must be set against the legal purge carried out between 1944 and 1947: 39 individuals were shot after being...
INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... 2
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It is 1799 when the 76th demi-brigade d'infanterie, then part of the Army of Helvetia under General Masséna, lost its colours in the engagement at Sernft against the Austrians. Later incorporated into the VI Corps of the Grande Armée, the 76th Line Regiment, commanded by Colonel Faure-Lajonquière, fought at Elchingen on 14 October 1805, a victory that...
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