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WORLD HISTORY OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, FROM ORIGINS TO THE...
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An auxiliary platform during the First World War, the aircraft carrier rose to the rank of Capital Ship during the Second, granting the air arm mobility and permanence in a theatre far from land bases. Its impact on international relations became considerable through its capacity for conventional or nuclear strikes against coastal fringes where the bulk...
Le Merlu Vol. 1 - The Roads of Defeat Le Merlu Vol. 1 - The Roads of Defeat 2
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May 1940, the exodus — a convoy of trucks attempts to reach the front. But the German breakthrough is too strong. The troops are taken prisoner. For Georges Colin, a 25-year-old soldier, rotting in the camps is out of the question. At the first opportunity, he escapes and makes his way home as best he can. The armistice is signed. The occupation begins....
Le Merlu Vol. 2 - The Blood Roads
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December 1941: Pearl Harbor has just been attacked by the Japanese air force. The world is sinking ever deeper into a world war. Georges Colin has been missing for several months — killed by the German army? Marie-Jeanne refuses to believe it... But resigned to her fate, she has married Jean-Claude, an active collaborator with the occupier, in order to...
Le Merlu Vol. 3 - The Roads to Victory
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5 September 1944, Chalon is liberated… It is deliverance for a people oppressed for more than four years. It is also the hour of score-settling and vengeance. But are the resistants of that day truly those who worked in the shadows for months, at the risk of their lives?
101 FORMIDABLE TACTICIANS 101 FORMIDABLE TACTICIANS 2
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101 FORMIDABLE TACTICIANS

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From Geronimo to Rommel, from Napoleon to Giap, discover the 100 greatest tacticians in History. These extraordinary commanders capable of turning the tide on the battlefield and writing History. Produced under the auspices of the École de guerre – Terre, this work brings together for the first time the 100 most formidable tacticians. Four illustrated...
"Without hesitation, I took the tricolour cockade..."...
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Memoirs of General de Montfort, Officer of the Corps of Engineers during the Revolutionary and First Empire Wars « Since Smolensk, we had, so to speak, not seen the enemy, [...] there had not been, strictly speaking, since the beginning of the campaign, a pitched battle, one of those battles that decide the outcome of a campaign, sometimes of an empire,...
THEY LEAD THE WAY – Sapper Legionnaires of the 1er REG
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"They lead the way and invite you to follow" Through these moments of life captured by Victor Ferreira, you fall into step with the men of the 1er Régiment Étranger de Génie, in their daily routine as much as in training or on mission.You cross the threshold of a highly singular unit, specialising in assault engineering and support for amphibious...
AS THE SHADOW ADVANCES – High-Risk Mission in Syria
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In March 2011, amid the wave of the Arab Spring, children from a village in southern Syria wrote graffiti on the wall of their school. Their arrest by the Syrian government's security services and the abuse they suffered would become the trigger of the Syrian revolution, initially peaceful. From the summer of 2011, this revolution took on the character of...
The DST on the Cold War Front
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The DST on the Cold War Front

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In 1944, amid the still-smouldering ruins of a Europe devastated by a conflict that claimed more than 50 million lives, another war began — silent, insidious. A war of shadows and dirty tricks. A war in which these two great blocs — East and West — would confront each other: the USSR and its satellites on one side, the United States and its allies on the...
TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action Speaks
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"I was a hostage. I lived through dark hours, locked in the cells of an Islamist Katiba. I had made myself a promise: if I survive, I will bear witness to what I lived through. That prospect helped me not to sink into despair or madness. I am a soldier, a man of the field, a former member of the Service Action of the DGSE. All my life I chose danger,...
CHEF DE GUERRE – At the Heart of Special Operations with...
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This expanded edition includes a preface written by Alain Juillet, a 32-page photo section and an additional chapter entitled " Psy-ops operation on the high seas ". Louis Saillans joined the marine commandos in 2010 and became a team leader five years later. Over nearly a decade, he took part in military operations in Africa and the Middle East aimed at...
THE FAR EAST SERVICE ACTION 1944–1945 – First... THE FAR EAST SERVICE ACTION 1944–1945 – First... 2
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In Indochina, in late 1944 and early 1945, the internal resistance, the emissaries of Fighting France and the DGER's parachute commandos — supported by the British Force 136 — were actively preparing to confront the Japanese adversary when the Japanese coup of 9 March 1945 jeopardised the takeover of the territory by the Provisional Government of the...
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