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Surface-to-Air Missile – History of the HAWK, medium-range missile in the French Army
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Surface-to-Air Missile – History of the HAWK, Medium-Range Missile in the French Army

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Surface-to-air missile "History of the HAWK, medium-range missile in the French Army" Adopted by France in 1958, the HAWK (Homing All the Way Killer) medium-range anti-aircraft missile system was designed and developed by the Americans in the years 1953–1955. Built under licence in Europe, and at the cutting edge of technology at the time, it equipped...
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BLACK FORCES of the European Colonial Powers BLACK FORCES of the European Colonial Powers 2
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BLACK FORCES OF THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL POWERS

L20220068
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.The year 2007 marked the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the creation at Plombières, on 21 July 1857, by Napoleon III and General Faidherbe of the first French unit of Senegalese tirailleurs. On this occasion, the organizers of this international history symposium sought to give it a European dimension by inviting researchers from countries that...
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Drones, Mysterious Flying Robots: The Eyes and Fire of the 21st Century Drones, Mysterious Flying Robots: The Eyes and Fire of the 21st Century 2
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Drones, Mysterious Flying Robots: The Eyes and the Fire of the 21st Century

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One hundred years after the beginnings of piloted aviation, aerial drones, at the centre of numerous technological innovations, are coming of age. Born of a need to know everything about the enemy, they are the unmanned aerial vehicles of the modern era. For some twenty years they have been appearing in specialist media. Due to the limited knowledge of...
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Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for the Memory Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for the Memory 2
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Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for Remembrance – 114 Days in the Kabyle Maquis,...

L20220065
€27.49
A young civilian who went to Algeria in 1958 as an instructor under the Algerian schooling plan, he returned after four months of captivity in an FLN camp, which he recounts in this book. Having volunteered for the aviation service from 1959 to 1962, and after training as a nurse in Clermont-Ferrand, he became a senior manager at a specialist educational...
The Jaguar in Its Electronic Warfare Missions
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The Jaguar in Its Electronic Warfare Missions

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The Jaguar in Its Electronic Warfare Missions. The means, the stakes and the missions as recounted by those involved.The Historical Committee of the Guerrelc association traces here the history of the Jaguar in its Electronic Warfare missions.
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Artillerymen in Algeria 1954–1962 – A Challenge Met
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Artillerymen in Algeria 1954 - 1962 - A Challenge Met

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Artillerymen in Algeria 1954 - 1962, a challenge met. This is a first-hand account relating the action of the artillery in all its components, and across all the missions it was called upon to carry out in this theatre of operations.
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Saint-Gotthard 1664: A European Battle
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Saint-Gotthard 1664, a European Battle

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€22.75
Saint-Gotthard 1664, a European Battle. The captivating story of an unjustly forgotten battle from the age of Louis XIV — the first victory over the Turks in Hungary and a remarkable example of cooperation among European armies against an aggressor.
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The Provence Landings
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The Provence Landings

L20220052
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Proceedings of the international symposium organized in Fréjus at the Centre d'histoire et d'études des troupes d'outre-mer.Edited by Antoine Champeaux and Paul Gaujac.
Women in the War 1939–1945
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Women in the War 1939 - 1945

L20220048
€26.54
The testimonies, which form the living substance of this book, were set down in writing after being recorded on camera. They constitute the audiovisual material of a documentary series in five one-hour episodes, broadcast on France 3 and Arte. « Women in the War » was released as a DVD box set distributed by Janus-diffusion in Fnac stores and video...
Artillery and Fortifications
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Artillery and Fortifications

L20220045
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Proceedings of the study day of 9 April 2005 at the Artillery Museum of Draguignan. Written by some of the finest specialists in this field, Artillery and Fortifications sheds often fresh light on little-known questions.
When Hitler's Filmmaker Fascinated France: Leni Riefenstahl
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When Hitler's Filmmaker Captivated France, Leni Riefenstahl

L20220041
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When Hitler's Filmmaker Captivated France — LENI RIEFENSTAHL. Why was Popular Front France able to hold up Nazi propaganda films such as Triumph of the Will or Olympia as models of thought or conduct? This book is not a biography of Leni Riefenstahl but a study of the reception of her films in France and of their possible influences on French society in...
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The Spy of the Siegfried Line: Armand Chouffet, Aerial Photographer
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The Spy of the Siegfried Line, Armand Chouffet, Aerial Photographer

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.On 20 June 1940, the day Panzergruppe Guderian arrived in Franche-Comté, three Abwehr officers — German military intelligence — went to Montéchéroux, a small village in the Doubs. Their mission: to arrest Armand Chouffet, one of the French pioneers of aerial espionage. An agent of the French intelligence service from 1935 to 1940, the aviator had taken...
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Marine Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire
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Naval Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire

L20220034
€23.70
Naval Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire. This symposium addressed the question of the situation of the colonies under the First Empire and the organisation of their defence.
Operations in Europe – 6 June 1944 – 8 May 1945
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Operations in Europe - 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945

L20220032
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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Europe, it seemed essential to present to the public a major work for a better understanding of this tragic and heroic chapter of our history.General Eisenhower was the orchestrator of the most significant military operation in History. We are reissuing the mission report he submitted to his...
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A Volunteer of the Night in the Hell of the Nazi Camps
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A Night Volunteer in the Hell of the Nazi Camps

L20220030
€24.64
A Night Volunteer in the Hell of the Nazi Camps, Pierre de Froment. The text presented here is the sober and moving account, written in 1946, of the concentration camp horror he had just endured.
Saint-Cyrians in the Resistance
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Saint-Cyriens in the Resistance

L20220029
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This work compiles the proceedings of the day of historical studies held at the Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence.
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Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu 2
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Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu — 13 March – 7 May 1954

L20220028
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They were paratroopers, serving with the 8e BPC, the 2/1er RCP or the 5e BPVN, and fate brought them together at Diên Biên Phu. Fifty years after the events, they agreed to revisit their past and recount their experiences during that battle.
Lyautey – The Social Role of the Officer
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Lyautey — The Social Role of the Officer

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Reprint of the complete text supplemented by a 55-page accompanying dossier, presented by Colonel P. Geoffroy, Association Nationale Maréchal Lyautey. This work is prefaced by General of the Army Henri Bentegeat, Chief of the Defence Staff.
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Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services 2
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Encyclopaedia of Intelligence and Secret Services

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A comprehensive presentation of the new global intelligence community in the post-Cold War era. Numerous organisational charts, diagrams and sketches, extensive bibliography, and internet site addresses.
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Run for It, Roger
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Run for Your Life, Roger

L20220019
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A true book, featuring illustrations and texts, about the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane. The story of a child who survived this atrocity. With the participation of the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour.
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The Saragossa File - Bormann and Gestapo Müller after 1945…
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The Saragossa File - Bormann and Gestapo Müller after 1945…

L20220013
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Who protected Gestapo-Müller, the head of the Nazi secret police from 1933 to 1945, when he appeared at the top of the war criminals list at Nuremberg? For he did not die in the ruins of Berlin during the fall of the Greater Reich… Did you know that a general of the NKVD, who served as Minister of Security of the USSR under Stalin, was "handling" the...
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2 September 1940 – Tahiti – Free France
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2 September 1940 - Tahiti - Free France

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2 September 1940 The rallying of the French Establishments of Oceania to General de Gaulle. While the New Hebrides were the first, on 18 July 1940, to join Free France, Tahiti did so on 2 September. The time of ruptures was beginning. Little by little, parcel by parcel, the colonial Empire was making its choices. This rallying of the French...
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Cognitive Warfare – The Weapon of Knowledge Cognitive Warfare – The Weapon of Knowledge 2
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Cognitive Warfare - The Weapon of Knowledge

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The September 11 attacks legitimised the United States' security responsibility over the world. From that point on, conflicts of all kinds would be regulated by American politico-military power — or so President Bush asserted with vigour. Does this locking-down of the international balance of power concern France and Europe? Do we still have room for...
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Crabs and Alligators in the Rice Paddies
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Crabs and Alligators in the Rice Paddies

L20220009
€21.80
Through 100 letters, Jacques Jauffret, a young officer with the 1er REC (1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment), takes us through two years of his posting in Indochina. Given the nature of the terrain, the 1er REC was equipped with American-made amphibious vehicles. Beyond this first-hand account from the level of the rice paddies and rivers, what makes these...
Chronicles of Cochinchina
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Chronicles of Cochinchina

L20220007
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Speaking 2 languages of Indochina, Lieutenant SIMON built outposts, opened roads, established villages, and pursued rebels through the virgin forest. He gathered fascinating confidences at the armistice commission.
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Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry 2
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Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry

L20160127
€10.43
A superb volume gathering the Traditions of the Marine Infantry and all its songs: patriotic, traditional, regimental, marching, bivouac, mess and humour. In a very practical format with clear layout, pleasantly illustrated.
Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the... Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the... 2
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Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the clash of five armies

L20160058
€28.25
The armies of five nations were present in Italy in 1943 — American, British, French, Polish and German — and their confrontation was one of the most brutal of the Second World War, both for the combatants and for the civilian population, who are never spoken of. Faced with the all-out resistance of the German forces on the Gustav Line south of Rome, the...
HUNGARIAN ARMOURED FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR HUNGARIAN ARMOURED FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR 2
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HUNGARIAN ARMOURED FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

L20210140
€31.28
The actions of the German armoured forces during the Second World War are well known to the public, largely owing to the numerous works devoted to them. Those of the armoured forces of their allied countries are, by contrast, far less well known. This volume sets out the role of the Hungarian armoured forces which, over the course of the global conflict,...
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