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HS Gazette Des Armes No.31 - Lee-Enfield Rifles - The...
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For nearly a century, the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles were protagonists of contemporary history on every continent. The Lee-Metfords, the first small-calibre repeating rifles adopted by the British Army, began to make their mark in the hands of Lord Kitchener's soldiers in the Sudan against the Mahdi's forces, and then in South Africa against the...
6 June 1944 - The Landings 6 June 1944 - The Landings 2
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6 June 1944 - The Landings

L20240066
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A tribute to the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 in Normandy, which marked a decisive turning point in the Second World War. The book presents the meticulous preparations and execution of the operation, highlighting the courage and determination of the Allied soldiers. It is illustrated with nearly 200 period photographs, offering a detailed look at this...
Normandy 1944 - Allied & German Vehicles Normandy 1944 - Allied & German Vehicles 2
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This book will allow you to discover the majority of the vehicles deployed by the Allies as well as the Germans, through numerous period photographs and colour images of restored vehicles taken at various events across France and Europe. On 6 June 1944, several Allied divisions landed on five beaches in Normandy, facing static units posted in the...
THE TORPEDO MEN OF THE DECIMA MAS THE TORPEDO MEN OF THE DECIMA MAS 2
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€32.23
Written immediately after the war, this account of the operations of this special unit of the Italian Royal Navy plunges the reader into a world where technical mastery combines with effectiveness to make the Xa MAS an exceptional formation. Those who would subsequently be known as "the torpedo men" accomplished military feats that for a time made the...
Diên Biên Phu - The Lessons of a Defeat
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The long ordeal of the French Expeditionary Corps, from Diên Biên Phu to its departure from Indochina. 7 May 1954. The fall of Diên Biên Phu. The Viet Minh's spectacular victory after fifty-six days of fighting seals France's departure from a part of the world where it had been present for more than a century. Seventy years on, Pierre Servent does not...
Aviation at Diên Biên Phu - From the Genesis to the Fall...
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From 20 November 1953 to 7 May 1954, French aircrews were progressively pushed to — and beyond — the limits of human endurance. Without the crews of the Armée de l'Air, the Aéronavale, the Aviation Légère d'Observation d'Artillerie, the requisitioned civilian airlines, and American pilots who were heirs to the Flying Tigers, the entrenched camp at Diên...
Oradour-sur-Glane, 10 June 1944 - History of a Massacre...
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10 June 1944. Four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges, was methodically wiped off the map by the SS division "Das Reich". The death toll would reach 643 victims, more than 200 of them children. Since then, the ruins of the martyred village, preserved as they stood, have become one of the most...
The Siege of Leningrad - September 1941 - January 1944
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The siege endured by Leningrad (formerly Saint Petersburg) for nearly 900 days (1941–1944) at the hands of the Germans and their allies is one of the darkest episodes of the Second World War. The Nazis applied a policy of annihilation there, claiming at least 1.8 million victims, half of them civilians. The besieged found themselves confronted not only...
The British Empire at War - 1857-1947
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June 1897. England celebrates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The highlight of the festivities takes the form of a memorable military parade in London, reminding the British that their country stands at the head of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Its representatives are all there, dressed for the occasion in their finest regalia: the...
America at War - 1933-1946 America at War - 1933-1946 2
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America at War - 1933-1946

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The giant awakens: the United States in the Second World War. The United States, although emerging strengthened from the First World War, subsequently turned inward, allowing Asia and Europe to go up in flames one after the other. One might therefore assume that the war only truly entered the thoughts and daily lives of Americans from 7 December 1941, the...
LIVING WITH THE GRANDE ARMÉE - Being a Soldier in the Age...
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In fifteen years, the Napoleonic Grande Armée, an unmatched war machine, won more victories than any other army before or after it... Austerlitz, Jena, the Moskova, Leipzig and Waterloo have already generated much ink, but these battles are often analysed from the standpoint of strategy and tactics. Yet the Napoleonic Wars were above all a human story....
HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal...
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Hitler's best-known secretary to date is Traudi Junge, owing to her memoirs which inspired the film Der Untergang (Downfall) about the dictator's final days. But she did not enter his service until January 1943, whereas Christa Schroeder had been there since 1933 and would remain until 20 April 1945. For twelve years, she accompanied her "chief" on all...
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