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The Battle of the Bulge 1944–1945 – The Panzers of the... The Battle of the Bulge 1944–1945 – The Panzers of the... 2
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Following the publication in 1994 of La Bataille des Ardennes by Jean-Paul Pallud — a work that established itself on both sides of the Atlantic — the release of Christer Bergström's book in 2017 revisited the actual losses of the US Army. This new work by Philippe Guillemot further enriches our understanding of the battle through fresh perspectives,...
General Olry - Victor of the Alps - June 1940 General Olry - Victor of the Alps - June 1940 2
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A graduate of the École Polytechnique and an artilleryman, René Olry (1880–1944) belongs to that category of soldiers who, with equal distinction, earn the admiration of their superiors, their peers and their subordinates. A man of character, he combined exceptional intellectual abilities with unwavering determination. A specialist in mountain operations,...
The Honour of a Colonel - From Algeria to Kolwezi The Honour of a Colonel - From Algeria to Kolwezi 2
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May 1978 – Kolwezi (former Zaire): thousands of Katangese rebels seize control of the city and hold hundreds of European hostages. Massacres begin… Faced with the urgency of the situation, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing launched Operation Bonite. Without warning, without ground support, without the possibility of reinforcements and with "scarce and...
TOMCAT COMIC BOOK – LARGE FORMAT
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25 October 1994, off the coast of San Diego, California. An F-14 is about to land on the carrier when a serious incident occurs. In the final seconds before the crash, the aircraft sees its life flash before it — from its birth to its final flight… TOMCAT follows the intertwined destinies of this aircraft and KARA HULTGREEN, the first female American Navy...
La Carlingue - The French Gestapo of 93, Rue Lauriston
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From 1940 to 1944, a gang of criminals led by Henri Lafont and Pierre Bonny — a petty swindler allied with a corrupt detective — placed themselves in the service of the German occupier, spreading terror and chaos across the French capital. Protected by the Nazis, this criminal organisation entered history under the name of the French Gestapo of the rue...
Castelnau - The Vanished Marshal 1851-1944
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General de Castelnau spans a century of French military and political history. Regarded by his contemporaries as one of the fathers of victory in the First World War, he fell victim to political machinations tied to his reputation as a Catholic conservative. Nicknamed the "booted friar" by Clemenceau, he was three times denied the marshal's baton that...
World War II Operations in 100 Maps
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Here is the latest prototype from the Perrin laboratories: an operational atlas of the Second World War. This conflict was won through military operations on land, at sea and in the air — to give just one example, the Red Army alone launched more than two hundred. And yet, until now, no one had thought to select the most important, to comment on them and...
The Resistance Years 1940-1944
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The Resistance Years 1940-1944

L202402011
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It has often been said and written that the Resistance, by its clandestine nature, had left few archives. Yet new documents, regularly unearthed, continue to enrich its history. What were the first acts of refusal? How did the Resistance gradually take shape, moving from individual acts to collective action? What ties did the internal Resistance fighters...
Malplaquet 1709
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Malplaquet 1709

L202402010
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In that year of 1709, the kingdom of France stood on the edge of the abyss. Engaged in the most brutal conflict of the entire reign — the War of the Spanish Succession — the country had already suffered defeat after defeat. In January, the Great Winter had added climatic catastrophe to military disaster. In May, the European states united against the...
History of the Ninjas - Henchmen and Spies in Samurai Japan
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Ninjas – or shinobi – were men of the shadows. Before invading our literary and cinematic imagination, they lived in the age of warlords, in feudal Japan of the 16th century. One should not picture them dressed entirely in black, masked and perched on a rooftop, but rather dressed like country folk, blending into the crowd, undetectable. Their discretion...
A Lieutenant with the Tanks - An Eyewitness at the Heart...
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A Lieutenant with the Tanks is a previously unpublished account of the 1940 campaign, written by Claude Peignot, officer of the 5th BCP. Particularly vivid, it casts an unsparing eye on the operations, the competence of the commanders and the equipment. The notebooks are annotated and explained by Camille Vargas, an author specialising in world conflicts...
A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the... A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the... 2
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« The history of military signals is a fascinating story. Above all, it is a human adventure », writes General Jacques Eyharts, the "father of the Signals branch", in his preface. It is this adventure that this work — the first of its kind — recounts, in which the authors show how, from a simple army telegraph service, the French Signals Corps became an...
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