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Gendarmes & Chevau-légers of His Majesty the King Gendarmes & Chevau-légers of His Majesty the King 2
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Gendarmes & Chevau-légers of His Majesty the King

L20230030
€18.96
4 July 1759: « I arrived at Versailles on the 1st of July and learned on dismounting that the order for the review had been given for the 4th. On that day, at noon, the entire royal household was drawn up at the Trou-d'Enfer at Marly. There was our company of chevau-légers, the gendarmes, the mounted grenadiers, the two companies of musketeers and the...
UNTIL THE FALL – Memoirs of Hitler's Butler
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UNTIL THE FALL – Memoirs of Hitler's Butler

L2023030
€20.85
The last great firsthand account of Hitler in private. SS Commander Heinz Linge (1913–1980) served for ten years as Adolf Hitler's butler. This former bricklayer joined the military ranks in 1933, initially becoming a bodyguard. He gradually entered his master's inner circle, becoming one of his most loyal attendants. Here at last is the French...
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1940 Reporter on Three Fronts 1940 Reporter on Three Fronts 2
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1940 Reporter on Three Fronts

L2023029
€24.64
Three operations with a Luftwaffe radio reporter: Norway, France, and over England With this album, we follow three operations alongside a Luftwaffe radio reporter, through some forty dynamic and compelling reports, accompanied by around fifty photographs directly related to these accounts. Added to these is an introductory chapter on the first airborne...
THE NETWORK - The last secrets of the Resistance
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THE NETWORK - The last secrets of the Resistance

L2023028
€20.85
At the age of 100, Edgar Morin makes one final request of his biographer: to investigate the Charette resistance network, to which he belonged alongside Mitterrand, Jankélévitch, Clara Malraux and many others. A network entirely forgotten, yet decisive in the history of the Resistance, and compellingly novelistic. The Charrette network was an...
MARSHAL NEY
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MARSHAL NEY

L2023027
€22.75
An ambiguous hero. Who does not know Marshal Ney? He stands alongside Murat, Lannes and Lefebvre as one of the best-known and most popular Marshals of the Empire. Indeed, nothing was lacking to secure him a prominent place in the Napoleonic epic — neither bravery, nor victories, nor misfortunes. The Marshal first won his popularity during the...
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Baldur Von Schirach - From the Hitler Youth to the...
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Baldur Von Schirach - From the Hitler Youth to the Deportation of the Jews of Vienna

L2023026
€22.75
From the upper echelons of the Prussian bourgeoisie, Baldur von Schirach spent his childhood in the shadow of his father, who was committed to the far right. An ambitious young man, Baldur rose rapidly through the Nazi system: he joined the NSDAP at 18 and became leader of the Hitler Youth at 24. He managed its direction and organisation, overseeing the...
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They Chose Death Rather Than Dishonour - 1939-1945
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They Chose Death Rather Than Dishonour - 1939-1945

L2023025
€20.76
Their names are Bertrand, Justin, Berty, Maurice, Pierre, Jean, Henri, René-Georges, Godefroy, François. Airmen, sailors, soldiers, fighters of the Free French, resistance members — all refused defeat and the occupation of their country, some as early as June 1940. In the darkest hours of History, driven by the same values of freedom and independence,...
War in the Feminine - They Fight for France
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War in the Feminine - They Fight for France

L2023024
€20.38
They are helicopter pilots, paratroopers, bomb disposal experts, base commanders or intelligence officers… But who are they really? How did they get there? How did they establish themselves in a man's world? Dorothée Olliéric, senior correspondent, went to meet these women, who open up here about their vocation and the reasons for their commitment. Their...
GENERAL DELESTRAINT - The Resistance: from the Secret...
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GENERAL DELESTRAINT - The Resistance: from the Secret Army to Dachau

L20230023
€22.75
In the exclusive service of France — until death. Born in 1879, died in deportation in 1945, Charles Delestraint is an unjustly obscure figure in French military history. Yet throughout his life, his successive commitments — up to the ultimate sacrifice in the Resistance — earned him a place in the Panthéon in 1989. A graduate of Saint-Cyr, he served as...
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THE EXILE OF THE COLLABORATORS 1944-1989
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THE EXILE OF THE COLLABORATORS 1944-1989

L20230022
€22.75
Ministers at Vichy, police chiefs, press magnates, radio presenters, cinema actors or ordinary individuals, they left in August 1944 in the wagons of the enemy and then went into hiding. For some, their exile lasted 45 years! Yves Pourcher offers us here a gallery of history's shipwrecked souls. August 1944. The day before, they had still been ministers,...
THE BLACK ORDER – Edged Weapons, Traditions & Symbolism THE BLACK ORDER – Edged Weapons, Traditions & Symbolism 2
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THE BLACK ORDER – Edged Weapons, Traditions & Symbolism

L20230021
€74.88
Following the success of L'Ordre Noir, Allgemeine-SS 1925-1945, an illustrated encyclopedia dedicated to the "total society" project envisioned by the SS, we wished to explore the subject further with this new volume. Jean-François Pelletier and Georges Bernage each authored a section of this work. One presents a detailed study of the Order's edged...
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JAPAN 1944–1945 The Strategic Bombing Campaign by General...
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JAPAN 1944–1945 The Strategic Bombing Campaign by General Curtis LeMay's B-29s

L20230020
€18.01
A strategic bombing campaign ravaged Japan as it continued to fight tenaciously despite the inexorable American advance. In 1944, the US Army Air Force deployed an ultramodern bomber on the Pacific theater — the most costly weapons system of the war: the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. General Curtis LeMay initiated radical and devastating tactics that ruined...
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