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Malta Spitfire - Memoirs of a Lone Wolf
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Malta Spitfire - Memoirs of a Lone Wolf

L20250135
€18.01
"I never knew Navarre or Nungesser, but what I was able to learn of them — whom I deeply admired — confirms to me that Beurling was the pilot of this war they would have most admired…" It is in these terms that Pierre Clostermann, "Premier chasseur de France", the greatest French ace of the Second World War, introduces George Beurling in The Big Show. The...
THE WINGS OF ORLÉANS - The history of air base 123...
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THE WINGS OF ORLÉANS - The history of air base 123 "Commandant Charles Paoli" - Home of...

L20250133
€34.12
At the gates of the city of Orléans, air base 123 « Commandant Charles-Paoli » has been part of the Petite Beauce landscape for nearly a hundred years. As a historic site of French military air transport, it is today a major platform of the French Air Force, whose missions span the highly technological world of communications and the fascinating realm of...
1er Régiment de Choc - Le Centre National d'Entraînement...
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1er Régiment de Choc - Le Centre National d'Entraînement Commando

L20250132
€32.23
Under the direction of Colonel Vivien Bureu, this work retraces the history of the 1er Régiment de Choc – Centre national d'entraînement commando, an emblematic unit of the French Army since 1964. From its creation in 1964 to the present day, the 1er Régiment de Choc – Centre national d'entraînement commando has continually evolved to provide training...
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EN TUER! THE 501ST RCC IN COMBAT 1918–1945
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EN TUER ! LE 501E RCC AU COMBAT 1918-1945

L20250131
€30.33
When asked about the 501e RCC, General Leclerc replied: "The 501st has never let me down." This illustrates the close ties that existed between the 2e DB and the "501st" — the only armoured regiment of Free France and Companion of the Liberation. Its participation in the liberation of France is not the regiment's only distinguishing feature. Established...
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Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour 2
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Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour

L20250130
€37.82
OUT OF PRINT Following a first volume (Life & Death on the Eastern Front) translated into French by Caraktère, Anthony Tucker-Jones returns with a second book of colour photographs, this time focusing on Rommel's Afrika Korps. The campaign waged by Axis forces in North Africa was seen by Berlin as an exceptional opportunity to showcase Rommel's successes...
Boemelburg - Head of the Gestapo in France
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Boemelburg - Head of the Gestapo in France

L20250129
€23.60
Karl Boemelburg took charge of the Gestapo in Paris in the summer of 1940, at the age of 55. Drawing on the connections he had established with the French police before the war, he waged a relentless campaign against the communist, Gaullist, and independent Resistance. By 1942 he commanded 2,500 men, backed by more than 30,000 French Gestapo agents. In...
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De Tribord à Bobard De Tribord à Bobard 2
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De Tribord à Bobard

L20250128
€18.01
Being born in the middle of the century of the two world wars offered the opportunity for exceptional encounters: with the ghosts of the First, with the legends of the Second in the shadow of General de Gaulle. Having become a naval officer without always quite understanding why, flights and voyages at sea followed one another amid minefields and missile...
L'Affaire de Tunisie 1881–1883
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L'Affaire de Tunisie 1881–1883

L20250127
€23.60
From the "bandit hunt" to the Protectorate, 1881–1883. How could a reader in 1881 be informed about a war in Tunisia leading to the establishment of a "protectorate" that same year, during a period when France was in a state of intense political, industrial, economic, and artistic upheaval? The press was the only link, allowing readers to follow, almost...
The Rafale Marine: Aboard the Combat Aircraft of the...
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The Rafale Marine: Aboard the Combat Aircraft of the French Navy

L20250126
€37.87
Entering service with the Navy in 2004, the Rafale Marine, developed by Dassault Aviation, is one of the most combat-hardened fighter aircraft in the world. Omnirole, it can perform all missions and replace up to seven types of aircraft from the previous generation. It is frequently deployed several thousand kilometres from metropolitan France, aboard the...
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Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer
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Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer

L20250125
€18.86
"I could take out that bastard with my eyes closed", proposed the British military attaché in Berlin, who laid out his plan of action to his superiors in 1939. Of the 42 documented assassination attempts on Hitler, the majority were carried out by the German resistance, which recognized early on Hitler's appetite for war. Ordinary citizens, workers,...
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Napoleon III, the Misunderstood
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Napoleon III, the Misunderstood

L20250124
€21.71
Napoleon III gave France the foundations of its modernity, yet he remains an unloved figure of the Republic. In this book, two convinced advocates rehabilitate a man and his visionary outlook for France, its society, its economy, its culture, and its influence beyond its borders. Discovering the Second Empire means immersing oneself in an effervescent era...
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Aboard the Renault FT
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Aboard the Renault FT

L20250123
€19.43
Aboard the Renault FT takes the reader on a journey through the epic story of this mythical and pioneering tank, from its design to its place in museums and collective memory today. This book is abundantly illustrated with photographs and technical plates to learn almost everything about this iconic tank. A complete study of the Renault FT, both...
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History of the French Army — from 1914 to the Present Day
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History of the French Army — from 1914 to the Present Day

CollLiv273
€16.11
With the clarity, precision and analytical rigour that have made his reputation, Philippe Masson recounts the fortunes and misfortunes of the French Army from 1914 to 1994 — in other words, across the entire twentieth century. 1914: it is the dawn of the Great War, the army narrowly avoids disaster before winning the titanic battle that earned it the...
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The 8th Air Force 1942–1945
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The 8th Air Force 1942–1945

L20250122
€33.18
The 8th Air Force was the first strategic air force of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) to be established during the Second World War. By mid-1944, two years after its creation, it had assembled more than 200,000 men at its bases in Great Britain and was capable of deploying for a single operation more than 2,000 four-engine bombers protected by 1,000...
Medieval Furniture - Utensils and Ceramics from 500 to 1500
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Medieval Furniture - Utensils and Ceramics from 500 to 1500

L20250121
€36.97
As the thousand years of history and civilisation of the Middle Ages continue to yield new discoveries, the furniture of that period remains poorly understood. Following our revised reprint, reworked in 2008, of Viollet-le-Duc's Mobilier médiéval, a more current and comprehensive documentation was required. Drawing on the extensive archives of our journal...
SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to... SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to... 2
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SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to Normandy

L20250120
€60.66
Charles Trang and Pierre Tiquet join forces for the fourth time to publish a work on the 10.SS-Panzerdivision "Frundsberg". Unlike previous books on this division, which focused primarily on the Battle of Normandy, this one will cover its complete history in detail, from its formation in January 1943 to its disintegration in the Spremberg pocket in April...
The Fall of Dien Bien Phu
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The Fall of Dien Bien Phu

L20250119
€18.96
« Military authorities [believed] that Communist troops would be incapable of taking Dien Bien Phu. Giap's soldiers came and it was a horror, with a tragic end beneath shellfire and torrential rain. The men waded through mud, blood, urine, excrement, rats and pestilential odours. The wounded were operated on in the midst of this charnel house, with no...
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PANZERS BERLIN 1945 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 /...
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PANZERS BERLIN 1945 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 / SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503

L20250118
€47.39
Histories of SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 « Hermann von Salza » and schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503 This reference work recounts in detail the histories of the SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 « Hermann von Salza » and the schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503 from their formation in mid-1943 to the final battles in Berlin in May 1945. The SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 was...
PANZERKOMMANDANT 001 Kurt Sametreiter
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PANZERKOMMANDANT 001 Kurt Sametreiter

L20250117
€45.50
Kurt Sametreiter's journey through the Second World War, told through his writings and personal photographs. An infantry soldier who rose to become a non-commissioned officer in the tank destroyers and then a panzer officer, Kurt Sametreiter was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross) as a member of the SS-Panzergrenadier-Division...
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BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!
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BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!

L20250116
€23.70
Memoirs of the Battle of Berlin in May 1945 by Georg Diers (Panzerkommandant Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Oskar Schäfer (Panzerkommandant and panzer officer on Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Henri Fenet (Waffen-Hauptsturmführer, SS-Grenadier-Regiment 57 of the 33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS « Charlemagne »). In the « TEMOIGNAGES POUR L'HISTOIRE »...
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Georges Bernage - A Publisher and the Witnesses of History
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Georges Bernage - A Publisher and the Witnesses of History

L20250115
€27.49
50 years of publishing From the Vikings to the Battle of Normandy and from Hastings to the D-Day veterans, our publishing house has just passed the milestone of half a century. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of this independent enterprise, with its substantial catalogue, the founder recounts what was a remarkable adventure. Born in Africa in...
French Prisoners of War 1940–1945 French Prisoners of War 1940–1945 2
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French Prisoners of War 1940–1945

L20250114
€36.97
Memories of La vache et le prisonnier with Fernandel are often the only images that come to mind when speaking of the French soldiers taken prisoner in 1940. Yet far from the cinema screen, 1.85 million of them were deprived of their liberty, imprisoned far from home and used as cheap labour. Victims of a distorted image and a French history that unfolded...
Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch
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Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch

L20250113
€23.60
On 22 April 1961, Generals Challe, Zeller, and Jouhaud — soon joined by Salan — launched a putsch in Algiers. The following day, General de Gaulle addressed the nation: "An insurrectional power has established itself in Algeria [...]. This power has an outward appearance: a handful of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of partisan, ambitious and...
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The Wars of Afghanistan
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The Wars of Afghanistan

L20250112
€24.64
Afghanistan: the epicentre of wars for two centuries. The history of Afghanistan is above all a military history — the history of a country perpetually embroiled in conflict due to foreign invasions or power struggles. It is the history of a nation that fought to assert its independence in the face of expansionist powers. Its unity and the power of its...
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