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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...
U-Boote – The Germans' Submarine War
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U-Boote - The German Submarine War

L20200238
€23.70
Until the First World War, submarines had played only a very limited role. Poorly armed, slow to dive and to advance, they posed no threat to warships or merchant vessels. But between 1914 and 1918, Germany staked everything on them to bring down Great Britain — whose very existence was threatened. Nazi Germany once again gambled its future on the...
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Exceptional Women in the Middle Ages
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Exceptional Women of the Middle Ages

L20200237
€15.07
If great men embody history, the same cannot be said of women, so consistently has the past been cast in masculine terms. Yet certain women of the Middle Ages once left their mark on their era: queens, saints, writers or adventurers. The medieval chronicles evoke the figures of queens Clotilde, Radegonde, Brunehaut, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Blanche of...
History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution
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History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution

L20200236
€7.54 €15.07
Where and when did the very first drops of wine pass down a thirsty throat? What could the taste of the "nectar of the gods" in Antiquity possibly have been? Some 2,600 years ago, our ancestors living on the land of present-day Marseille discovered wine with delight. Shortly afterwards, the Gaulish elites began importing it in considerable quantities. But...
Secret Album of the Templars
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Secret Album of the Templars

L20200234
€21.80
A compilation bringing together, in an album illustrated primarily with fine antique colour engravings, the greatest secrets of the Templars… * Following the Secret Guide and the New Secrets on the Templars, a selection of the most mysterious and original stories about the Order of the Temple, gathered in a large-format volume. * Antique colour...
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The Vikings – History & Tales
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The Vikings – History & Tales

L20200233
€23.70
The great episodes of Viking history, from Erik the Red to Harald Fairhair, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, are retraced in documented accounts. From the lively pen of Jean Mabire, here is the fabulous history of the Vikings, kings of the seas, superbly told. Gathered here are the exploits of Erik the Red, Harald Bluetooth, Harald Fairhair and...
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The Marshall Plan – At the Dawn of the Cold War
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The Marshall Plan – At the Dawn of the Cold War

L20200232
€25.50
"The Marshall Plan" is a pertinent and remarkably well-written work of diplomatic and economic history. Leaders and experts from around the world keep calling for a new "Marshall Plan", but how many truly understand what that plan was about, how it was created and how it was carried out? This book will open eyes and minds". Alan Greenspan, former...
Dispatches from Vietnam
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Vietnam Dispatches

L20200231
€20.85
Vietnam Dispatches brings together John Steinbeck's final series of war reportages. Previously unpublished in France, this work gathers the chronicles written from 1966 for Newsday magazine by the man who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. John Steinbeck, aged 64, is already an ailing...
THE GUIDE TO OCCUPIED PARIS
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THE GUIDE TO OCCUPIED PARIS

L20200209
€28.34
Paris... the most beautiful city in the world, a city without eyes, a city of every excess, the brothel of Europe... Such is the image the German occupier has of the French capital on the morning of 14 June 1940, as his troops enter Paris without a fight. The Gross-Paris then encompasses Paris and the Seine département, which corresponds more or less to...
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