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Indochina – Dien Bien Phu and the Battles of the Impossible
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Indochina – Dien Bien Phu and the Battles of the Impossible

L20200270
€36.97
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu remains the final episode of a war in Indochina in which the finest troops of the French army never ceased to display unwavering bravery and heroism. It is in this strategic basin of Upper Tonkin that a true fortified camp was established, protected by three outlying strongpoints to the North — " Gabrielle ", " Anne-Marie " and...
GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS
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GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS

L20200269
€32.23
Gallipoli, the Dardanelles — these names, almost forgotten from our history books, nevertheless mark one of the bloodiest battles in which the French Army took part during the First World War. This military campaign, contested from its very conception by the political world and decried by the general staffs, had been conceived by a single man: Winston...
THE 1ST PARACHUTE CHASSEUR REGIMENT THROUGH ITS PENNANTS...
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THE 1ST PARACHUTE CHASSEUR REGIMENT THROUGH ITS PENNANTS 1937–2019

L20200268
€36.97
With this unprecedented and richly illustrated work, the history of the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment (1st RCP) is revisited and expanded: for the first time, the combat actions and day-to-day training of the 1st RCP are recounted through the regiment's many pennants. A great number of them have weathered the storms of history into which the 1st RCP has...
The Odyssey of the Ramcke Brigade at El Alamein
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The Odyssey of the Ramcke Brigade at El Alamein

L20200265
€24.64
Fallschirmjäger in Egypt, from Bab el Katara to Mersa El Brega with war correspondent Hans Rechenberg. El Alamein. This is where Rommel's offensive, which had seemed unstoppable, was halted on the road to Alexandria in the summer of 1942. There followed long weeks of positional warfare in the sand and rock of the Egyptian desert, under a blazing sun....
Flight Through the Air in the Middle Ages - A Historical...
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Flight Through the Air in the Middle Ages - A Historical Essay on a Scientific Utopia

L20200263
€11.61 €23.22
In medieval sources, human flight is rarely addressed directly: the catastrophic attempt by English monk Eilmer of Malmesbury, the flying machine dreamed up by Roger Bacon, or the vessel floating above the air imagined by Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme stand as celebrated exceptions. Yet the question of flight was a genuine intellectual challenge for...
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Hubert Germain - Mémoires d'un Compagnon de la Libération - Espérer pour la France Hubert Germain - Mémoires d'un Compagnon de la Libération - Espérer pour la France 2
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Hubert Germain - Memoirs of a Compagnon de la Libération - Hoping for France

L20200262
€16.11
Hubert Germain is the last Compagnon de la Libération. He shares his testimony in this work. PRIX DE L'ARMEE DE TERRE ERWAN BERGOT 2020 "I am going to need you", General de Gaulle said simply to the young Hubert Germain when he arrived in England in June 1940, among the first Free French. Hubert Germain was 19 years old, would become a Knight of the...
Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action 2
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Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action

L20200261
€11.85 €23.70
This richly illustrated volume is the culmination of a shared field experience by researchers and heads of museum institutions on what makes commemoration, yesterday and today, and also on what it does — through the practices, uses and social appropriations to which it gives rise. Volume edited by Philippe Hanus and Gilles Vergnon in partnership with the...
France 1940 – Massacred!
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France 1940 – Massacred!

L20200260
€23.70
The tragic fate of African and Indochinese soldiers in Picardy and Normandy No, this book has nothing demagogic about it — the author neither seeks to flatter nor to promote himself. Those put forward are the men themselves: the actors of the bloody fighting on the Somme in June 1940, the massacres of which African soldiers were victims, and those that...
Shackled - The Trauma of War in the 21st Century
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Shackled - The Trauma of War in the 21st Century

L20200259
€24.55
« Every time I came home, after a while I would sink back down: the flashbacks would return, the nightmares would intensify. I discovered my wound and this new situation as the symptoms gradually manifested themselves. » Since time immemorial, some have returned from war wounded in the deepest part of their soul. Homer and Herodotus already gave voice to...
La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion in Combat...
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La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion in Combat 2008–2018

L20200258
€19.91
Nine officers of the French Foreign Legion have taken up the pen to recount the last decade of combat of this legendary unit. For the first time, the reader accompanies the men in their white képis in Afghanistan, French Guiana, the Central African Republic, and Mali. "Monsieur légionnaire" was everywhere France decided to fight. From training to the most...
The early days of Nazism with Emil Maurice, Hitler's...
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The early days of Nazism with Emil Maurice, Hitler's Jewish friend

L20200257
€65.40
Of Jewish origin and intimate friend of Adolf Hitler, Emil Maurice was the founder of the SA and the Stosstrupp Hitler (the forerunner of the SS). He also served as a drafter of Mein Kampf during his imprisonment at Landsberg. Through the highly singular destiny of Emil Maurice, this album covers primarily the little-known yet critically decisive period...
2. PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL. 2 - Caen-Vire-Mortain...
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2. PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL. 2 - Caen-Vire-Mortain (1 July–12 August 1944)

L20200256
€55.92
Volume II of the three-volume series covering the fate of the 2. Panzer-Division during 1944 and the Battle of Normandy traces the unit's fighting from 1 July to 12 August. Von Lüttwitz must organise a war of position against the 1st US Infantry Division at the foot of the Caumont ridge, and manage the deployment of his Panzer forces to the west and south...
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U-Boote in the Mediterranean - Volume 1, September...
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U-Boote in the Mediterranean - Volume 1, September 1941–May 1943, to the Rescue of the...

L20200255
€51.18
The history of the 62 U-Boote that fought in the Mediterranean During the summer of 1941, the British decimate the convoys crossing the Mediterranean to supply Rommel's Afrikakorps. The Kriegsmarine is called to the rescue! The first U-Boote pass through the Strait of Gibraltar at the end of September 1941. After their combat mission against Royal Navy...
ARMOURED TRAINS – Illustrated Encyclopaedia from 1825 to... ARMOURED TRAINS – Illustrated Encyclopaedia from 1825 to... 2
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ARMOURED TRAINS – Illustrated Encyclopaedia from 1825 to the Present Day

L20200253
€60.66
Paul Malmassari had already published, in the early 1990s with Heimdal, a reference work on the subject of armoured trains — a topic generally little treated. An undisputed specialist in the field, the author this time proposes a new and very different approach to the history of these steel giants dependent on the railways. From their origins to the...
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Me 262 vs P-51 Mustang – Europe 1944–45
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Me 262 vs P-51 Mustang – Europe 1944–45

L20200252
€17.06
The Me 262 and the P-51 represent a pinnacle in terms of design, performance and combat capability by virtue of their respective flying power. With its operational debut in the summer of 1944 and powered by the Jumo 004 engine, the Me 262 outclassed everything the Allies possessed in terms of firepower and speed. However, the availability of both aircraft...
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THE BERLIET GLR, THE TRUCK OF THE CENTURY THE BERLIET GLR, THE TRUCK OF THE CENTURY 2
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THE BERLIET GLR, THE TRUCK OF THE CENTURY

L20200250
€33.18
The GLR is more than a truck — it is a symbol. First and foremost the symbol of a marque, for while the manufacturer with the locomotive badge produced more than a thousand different models, the GLR is by far the most emblematic, the most famous and the best-selling. The GLR is the essence of Berliet, concentrating all the qualities of the marque's...
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WHEN THE ALLIES BOMBED FRANCE 1940–1945
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WHEN THE ALLIES BOMBED FRANCE 1940–1945

L20200249
€23.70
Quand les Alliés bombardaient la France sets out to explain the reasons for the raids, to describe their preparation, their execution — sometimes seen from the air, sometimes from the ground — and their results relative to objectives. Numerous first-hand accounts and a taste for precision take us inside both the cockpit of a bomber and the streets and...
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GARAGES, YESTERYEAR ATMOSPHERES GARAGES, YESTERYEAR ATMOSPHERES 2
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GARAGES, YESTERYEAR ATMOSPHERES

L20200248
€36.49
When a historian sets out in search of iconographic documents for his works, he sometimes comes across photographs of rare intensity. Black and white has this marvellous faculty of inspiring dreams and bringing a new dimension, compared to colour photographs, which tell the "real life" story, without embellishment or sentiment. Dominique Pagneux offers us...
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Target Saigon: The Fall of South Vietnam
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Target Saigon: The Fall of South Vietnam

L20200247
€23.70
Volume 2: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 – March 1975 A detailed account, based heavily on Vietnamese sources, of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South. • A new study based primarily on Vietnamese-language sources, describing the disintegration of South Vietnam • Fully illustrated with rare and previously unpublished...
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ASTON MARTIN, ILLUSTRATED PANORAMA OF THE MODELS ASTON MARTIN, ILLUSTRATED PANORAMA OF THE MODELS 2
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ASTON MARTIN, ILLUSTRATED PANORAMA OF THE MODELS

L20200243
€19.91 €39.81
In 1913, this luxury and racing car marque was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin. The latter won the Aston Clinton hill climb that same year. Thus was born the legendary name Aston Martin, in memory of the name of the race combined with that of its winner. The history of the British marque is punctuated by numerous twists and turns that always...
Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment – A Squadron in Combat
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Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment – A Squadron in Combat

L20200242
€37.91
The Normandie-Niemen celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2017. The squadron was forged in hardship, during some of the fiercest fighting of the Second World War. And 75 years later, it is still in combat that it marks this major milestone in its existence. The bloody missions in the skies over Russia, where 42 pilots paid with their lives for their total...
In the Lair of the Mirage 2000D – Nancy-Ochey
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In the Lair of the Mirage 2000D – Nancy-Ochey

L20200241
€19.91
Air Base 133 "Commandant Henry Jeandet" at Nancy is one of the oldest in the French Air Force. Soon to be a century old, it alone offers a striking summary of the history of French military aviation, from the first bomb drops over the trenches to all-weather precision bombing, by day and by night. After living to the sound of the legendary Jaguar and...
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ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in... ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in... 2
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ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in Normandy

L20200240
€18.86
A war correspondent in Normandy. When he lands in Normandy on 7 June 1944, Ernie Pyle is the finest (Pulitzer Prize) and most popular of American war correspondents. Pyle owes this popularity to his ability to recount, simply and with great empathy, the stories of ordinary soldiers. During the summer of 1944, he follows the American troops from Omaha...
THE BATTLE OF MONTÉLIMAR: AUGUST 1944 THE BATTLE OF MONTÉLIMAR: AUGUST 1944 2
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THE BATTLE OF MONTÉLIMAR: AUGUST 1944

L20200239
€18.91
Shortly after the Provence landings, the Battle of Montélimar marked the attempt to annihilate the retreating German troops in the Rhône valley. American divisions trapped them in a pocket formed to the east by the Rhône and to the north by the Drôme, whose bridges had been destroyed by the Resistance. On 28 August, fierce fighting broke out against the...
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