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Bernard Jardin - Norman Gestapo Agent - 1943-1944
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Facing the firing squad that was to shoot him on 17 August 1946 at 7:05 a.m. in Alençon, Bernard Jardin, very pale, spoke his last words in a rather faint voice: "Long live National Socialism", then, before the bullets flew, he added "And long live France all the same."
History of the 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1939-1945: The Phoenix Odyssey
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On the morning of 1 September 1939, 4,000 men set out to face German forces south of Kraków. They came from the 10th Cavalry Brigade, the only large motorised unit in the Polish army, and unknowingly embarked on an unprecedented epic. Holding three Wehrmacht divisions in check to the eastern borders of Poland, they managed despite the defeat to cross into...
TORPEDO LOS! Les U-boote dans la Bataille de l'Atlantique Tome 1 : 1939-1941
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From 1939 to 1941, the German submarine arm emerged as one of the most dangerous threats to the Allies, their war effort and their maritime trade. Composed of modern, well-designed vessels crewed by highly trained and motivated men, the U-Bootwaffe waged a relentless tonnage war in the Atlantic.
WEHRMACHT46 - Volume 1 The Reich's Arsenal
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OUT OF PRINT   Much has been said about "wonder weapons" — as visionary in some respects as they were fantastical in others — studied or deployed in 1944–45 by Nazi Germany in an attempt to reverse the course of the war.
ARDENNES 44 - OF CLOUDS AND FIRE - Air War over the Ardennes ARDENNES 44 - OF CLOUDS AND FIRE - Air War over the Ardennes 2
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The air war over the Ardennes: from Antwerp to Bodenplatte On 16 December 1944, the most powerful artillery barrage the forces of a dying Third Reich would ever unleash on the Western Front — opened with the Normandy landings six months earlier — fell upon the American lines holding the thinly manned Ardennes front.
PIN-UP LA FRENCH TOUCH T1 PIN-UP LA FRENCH TOUCH T1 2
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PIN-UP LA FRENCH TOUCH Vol. 1

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With this first volume, Patrick Hitte opens the doors to a warm, sparkling and deliciously retro universe. Pin-Up: La French Touch T1 celebrates the pin-up as a figure of joy, fantasy and good humour: an image that makes you smile, that catches the eye, that evokes the posters of yesterday, the decorated aircraft noses, the aviators' lucky charms and an...
SPITFIRE, THE LEGEND
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SPITFIRE THE LEGEND

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This book tells the story of the Spitfire, the variants and engines used, to chronicle this aircraft and its legendary exploits. A chapter is notably dedicated to the Spitfire's service with the French armed forces. Also featuring numerous detail photographs of airworthy examples.
THE JEEP GUIDE
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THE JEEP GUIDE

L20190036
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The Jeep remains present in everyone's memory, even among the youngest. A symbol of freedom and escape, it has cast off its image as a war machine to become a leisure vehicle today.
JEEP, HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN LEGEND
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The Jeep is unquestionably one of America's major contributions to automotive history. Specialist journalist Patrick R. Foster here details seventy years of history.
AM GENERAL HUMVEE, THE MILITARY HUMMER
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Over the 30 years following its introduction, the Humvee became one of the best-known military vehicles in the world. This versatile and effective machine served the US Army in operations in Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia, and is moreover used by more than 60 countries.
SHERMAN TANK, ALL VARIANTS OF THE M4 SINCE 1941
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Discover the Sherman tank, its development and its many variants through numerous archive images and photographs of restored vehicles. Development of the American medium tank M4 "Sherman" began in 1941.
THE ARMORED REGIMENTS OF THE 2ND ARMORED DIVISION
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When it was formed in 1943, General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division was equipped with three armored regiments that would form its spearhead: the 501st Tank Combat Regiment, drawn from the Free French Forces, the 12th African Chasseurs Regiment and the 12th Cuirassiers Regiment, both drawn from the Army of Africa.
TIGER TANK PANZERKAMPFWAGEN VI TIGER 1 AUSF.E
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History, development, production and roles of one of the most formidable battle tanks of the Second World War. The German Tiger tank was the most feared armoured vehicle of the Second World War. Its near-invincibility rested on its powerful 88 mm gun and its thick armour.
THE FRENCH GENERALS OF 1940
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THE FRENCH GENERALS OF 1940

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In May–June 1940, the French Army suffered the worst defeat in its history: nearly two million prisoners, entire divisions annihilated with their equipment lost, and more than half of national territory overrun by the Wehrmacht.
Les Aéroplanes Voisins Les Aéroplanes Voisins 2
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The VOISIN Aeroplanes

L20180212
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OUT OF PRINT In 1908 Voisin and, in America, the Wrights were the only ones building machines that truly flew.
WEHRMACHT FIELD ARTILLERY DURING WORLD WAR II
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On 1 January 1921, in order to comply with the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, the Reichswehr retained no more than 204 7.7 cm guns and 84 10.5 cm howitzers. With the exception of this meagre allocation, the entire artillery park of the Deutsche Armee existing on 11 November 1918 was seized or scrapped.
Camouflage & Markings of French Aviation 1939-1945
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Everything you always wanted to know about French camouflage and markings but never dared ask — the foremost specialist on the subject, Christian-Jacques Ehrengardt, lays it all out across 216 pages.
Encyclopedia of French Fighter Aircraft 1939-1942 Encyclopedia of French Fighter Aircraft 1939-1942 2
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This encyclopaedia devoted to French fighter aircraft of the 1939–42 period offers a sweeping panorama of the state of our aeronautical industry on the eve of an unprecedented cataclysm in the history of our country.
BISMARCK - The Atlantic Giant BISMARCK - The Atlantic Giant 2
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Following two LOS! special issues devoted to the battleship Bismarck that sold out rapidly, Patrick Toussaint presents a definitive study of this flagship of the Kriegsmarine.
The 2nd Armored Division - "Leclerc"
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It was around fighters of the Free French from the earliest days that Leclerc would build the 2nd armoured division, with one objective: to make it the instrument capable of fulfilling the oath sworn at Koufra on 2 March 1941, "to lay down arms only when our colours, our beautiful colours, fly over the cathedral of Strasbourg".
General Lardant - Soldier of the Mountain Troops
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In the late 1880s, alpine light infantry battalions and alpine infantry regiments were formed. This marked the birth of troops specialised in mountain warfare.
Honour, Not Honours - Memoirs, Volume 1: With the 2nd REP in Algeria
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This account is a testimony to the Algerian War, to the military operations in which the author — a paratroop officer in the Foreign Legion — took part, as well as to the generals' putsch of April 1961. On graduating from officer school in 1954, Pierre Montagnon — top of his class — chose the Legion's paratroopers. He remained with them until 1961, first...
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