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NOUS, LES BARBARES - 10.SS-PANZERDIVISION "FRUNDSBERG" NOUS, LES BARBARES - 10.SS-PANZERDIVISION "FRUNDSBERG" 2
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OUT OF PRINT The military history of the Second World War is increasingly focused on individual destinies and the daily lives of soldiers. With the inexorable passing of witnesses from that era, a part of their lived experience also disappears — so many pages of history that should lead us to reflect on our good fortune in knowing peace. Through a chance...
Les Francs-Tireurs 1870-1871 Les Francs-Tireurs 1870-1871 2
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Les Francs-Tireurs 1870-1871

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Francs-Tireurs 1870-1871 A recurring theme whenever one examines the War of 1870, the francs-tireurs remain among the most representative figures of the conflict. For some, they embody the missed opportunity of an unconventional war of skirmishes, in which intelligently led units might have excelled. For others, they personify the illusions of a very...
THE E-PROGRAMME TANKS - The Last-Chance Panzers
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In the minds of industrialists and Hitler alike, if the Third Reich was to hold its own against its adversaries, it had to win the battle of innovation by producing equipment so superior that it would have no rivals on the battlefield and that the balance would once again tip in its favour. With numerical superiority firmly on the side of the United...
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 - Identification Guide Volume 1
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New Edition - April 2021 Built in nearly 33,675 examples, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 remains to this day a source of fascination, both for aviation enthusiasts and devotees of contemporary military history. This aircraft symbolises as much the power and superiority of the Luftwaffe during the early years of the war as the ferocity of the aerial battles...
132a Divisione Corazzata ARIETE
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132a Divisione Corazzata ARIETE

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Second edition - April 2021 The Ariete Division is without doubt the best-known unit of the Italian Royal Army, the Regio Esercito, to have fought during the Second World War. The spearhead of Italian forces in North Africa, its name remains associated with the victories of the Afrika-Korps and the battles that punctuated operations in Libya and Egypt...
The Maginot Line - Design, Construction, Fate
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The Maginot Line is the third French fortified system. While its construction is explained by the prevailing context of the interwar period, it is also explained by a centuries-old pattern of behaviour aimed at securing French borders.
THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 2
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More than fifty years after Joseph-Désiré Mobutu's rise to power in the Congo, it is time to take a clear-eyed look at that era and to try to understand the role of each party — and especially of the mercenaries — in this page of history of which only the scattered ashes of memory will remain. Drawing on their lived experiences and official documents, the...
Grand Illustrated Book of the Gardien de la Paix Uniform... Grand Illustrated Book of the Gardien de la Paix Uniform... 2
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Rediscover the great chapters of French history through the evolution of the gardien de la paix and his uniforms, from 1829 — the year the world's first uniformed police force was created — to the present day. By the very nature of their profession, the gardiens de la paix found themselves at the heart of our history; they took part in it, often out of...
Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today 2
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The photographic technique of superimposing two identical images taken at two different periods is fairly widespread and visible on the web today, but is rarely published. It seemed fitting to use it to evoke the history of 1944, whose traces are visible everywhere in the Normandy we know today. Without following a "classic" account of the Battle of...
Sainte-Mère-Église - The 82nd Airborne Division Sainte-Mère-Église - The 82nd Airborne Division 2
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This book, containing more than 200 photographs and numerous first-hand accounts, will plunge you back into the heart of the fierce fighting waged by American paratroopers to liberate and hold Sainte-Mère-Église and its surroundings. It will take you through the extraordinary history of the creation of the American airborne arm and the epic of the...
U-BOOTE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - VOLUME 2, June 1943 –...
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The story of the 62 U-Boote that fought in the Mediterranean With the Allies having taken control of the whole of North Africa in May 1943, the mission of the U-Boote in the Mediterranean changed. Henceforth, they were to protect "Fortress Europe" against the forthcoming Allied landings. Five submarines set out against the Allied landing in Sicily in July...
THE "Sample" BATTLESHIPS. Volume 02: Jauréguiberry,...
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In the first volume of this work, our study covered the genesis of the French armoured fleet in the period between the war of 1870 and the Fashoda Crisis on the one hand, and on the other the history of the first three battleships of this so-called "sample" fleet: the Brennus, Carnot and Charles Martel. With this second volume, we study the last three...
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