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BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY 2
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The remarkable story of Bob Denard, the mercenary of the Fifth Republic — one of the greatest military figures of the 20th century. This larger-than-life condottiere showed from a very young age a marked taste for adventure and combat. At 16, he enlisted in the Royale, which he left six years later at the end of the Indochina War. This was only the...
VERSAILLES 1939-1945 - A Château in the Crosshairs
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DURING THE CONFLICT OF 1939-1945, the Château de Versailles and its gardens changed in appearance the better to protect themselves. Deemed particularly at risk, the monument took on a «war footing» as early as the summer of 1939 and gradually resumed its former appearance over the following years. By turns barricaded, occupied and then liberated, this...
WE The Children of the War - 1939-1945
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Telling in pictures the lives of children under the Occupation is unprecedented. One must trace the stories of these destinies, the most terrible as well as the most ordinary. All the children have in common that they continued to play marbles or with dolls, to enjoy Punch and Judy shows or to build dens in the forest — sometimes even in the internment...
IN THE SHADOW OF BOB DENARD - French Mercenaries from...
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The early 1960s: in the midst of the decolonisation of the Belgian Congo, the secession of Katanga triggered the first concentration of foreign fighters, who flooded in by the hundreds. Among these "dogs of war", the French were the most active. They embarked on a kind of golden age — a succession of raids and coups d'état stretching across the entire...
THE YOUNG LION THE YOUNG LION 2
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THE YOUNG LION

L20230130
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In the heroes' cemetery on the outskirts of Sopron, Hungary, there stands a special monument. A gravestone adorned with a twisted propeller from an aircraft shot down during the Second World War. A young man rests here alongside his family. His name is László Molnár; he was, until his death, Hungary's most effective fighter pilot. His nickname was LION....
SABOTEUSES - Volume 2 - The Mole SABOTEUSES - Volume 2 - The Mole 2
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Normandy, 1942… The saboteuses have taken up their posts on French soil. For Paulette Kincaid, code name Aiguille, life is nothing but an adventure — between a romance with a butcher's boy and transmissions keeping the Allies informed about the situation in France. But doubt has set in since the execution of a network leader… There is said to be a mole in...
ALESIA, THE TRIUMPH OF ROMAN ORGANISATION ALESIA, THE TRIUMPH OF ROMAN ORGANISATION 2
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Alesia, the culmination of centuries of defiance between the Gauls and the Romans. In the 4th century BC, Brennus uttered his famous "Vae Victis", sparking the beginning of a long centuries-old animosity between Romans and Gauls. Years of defiance between the two peoples would lead to the famous Battle of Alesia in 52 BC. Caught in Julius Caesar's...
THE JEEP IN THE FRENCH ARMY VOLUME 1: 1943 - 1954 THE JEEP IN THE FRENCH ARMY VOLUME 1: 1943 - 1954 2
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«My first jeep, I saw it on 23 August 1944 in Toulon. It belonged — I would learn this much later — to the 3rd squadron of the 1st Naval Fusiliers Regiment, which had infiltrated towards the districts of Cap Brun…» It was in this way that the author discovered this marvellous little vehicle, which served sixty years within the French Army, taking part in...
COLONEL PASSY - General de Gaulle's Master Spy
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The story of Colonel Passy (1911–1998) is above all the story of an extraordinary destiny. The 29-year-old captain who rallied to Free France as early as 1940 was among the handful of volunteers without whom General de Gaulle could not have hoped to succeed in his audacious gamble: to secure France a seat at the victors' table in 1945. With no prior...
CAN'T HURT ME
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CAN'T HURT ME

L20230123
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MASTER YOUR MIND AND DEFY YOUR FATE For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare — poverty, racial prejudice, and family violence punctuated his days and haunted his nights. A depressed, overweight young man with no future in sight, unable to run more than 500 metres, he would nonetheless choose to take his destiny into his own hands. Through an...
Navy - History & Traditions - Carnet de la Sabretache Navy - History & Traditions - Carnet de la Sabretache 2
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All things considered, la Royale has only four centuries of history, having emerged at the beginning of the 17th century within the framework of France's policy of power and influence, conceived and developed by Richelieu. Over those four centuries, the French navy not only sailed and explored every sea and ocean on the globe, but also fully mastered the...
CHARLES LE COCQ - Officer of France
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Born in Rennes in 1898, this son of a Breton civil servant prepared from adolescence to enter the École de Saint-Cyr. Graduating on 17 August 1918, he would be engaged on every theatre of operations without interruption. From the First to the Second World War, through the desert, Charles Le Cocq fought relentlessly: the recapture of a village under German...
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