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THE SS ORDER – History – Uniforms – Equipment
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THE SS ORDER – History – Uniforms – Equipment

L20250068
€23.70
An illuminating work on the SS, conceived as a totalitarian ideological order, whose rites, social control and institutionalised violence forged a genuine "state within the state" under Himmler's iron grip. As the embodiment of Third Reich ideology and conceived as a chivalric order, the SS instituted rites and a code of conduct that served as tools for...
Kolwezi – The Legion Jumps on Katanga
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Kolwezi – The Legion Jumps on Katanga

L20250067
€27.49
A thoroughly documented, gripping account of Operation Bonite at Kolwezi in 1978, in which the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment distinguished itself in a swift rescue amid the chaos in Zaire—the last major French airborne operation. In May 1978, the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP), then commanded by Colonel Philippe Érulin, was selected for a...
La Milice Française Dies in Italy
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La Milice Française Dies in Italy

L20250066
€32.23
A rare and striking eyewitness account of the last days of the Milice française in 1945, between exile, fanaticism and final shipwreck in the collapse of the Third Reich. March 1945. Europe is collapsing, Germany is in its death throes, and in the chaos of a war drawing to its close, a handful of men refuse to give up. These are the last loyalists of the...
History of the 1er RPIMa - The Exceptional Regiment of...
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History of the 1er RPIMa - The Exceptional Regiment of the Special Forces

L20250064
€20.85
A living and thoroughly documented tribute to the 1er RPIMa, elite regiment of the French special forces, tracing its history, missions, traditions and the daily life of its soldiers. In a thoroughly researched work, Rémi Bernier immerses us in the history of the 1er RPIMa, the prestigious marine infantry parachute regiment and crown jewel of the French...
ONE AGAINST TWELVE - The 87th BCA in the Defence of the...
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ONE AGAINST TWELVE - The 87th BCA in the Defence of the Alps, June 1940

L20250063
€20.38
How the French stood their ground against Italian soldiers in the Queyras in June 1940. The Battle of the Alps is one of the rare engagements to have ended in a French victory during the 1940 campaign in France. While the armies of the north and east were subjected to the blitzkrieg tempo imposed by the enemy, the soldiers of the Alps managed to halt the...
THE GREEN DEVILS JUMP ON MONTEROTONDO - 9–10 September 1943 THE GREEN DEVILS JUMP ON MONTEROTONDO - 9–10 September 1943 2
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THE GREEN DEVILS JUMP ON MONTEROTONDO - 9–10 September 1943

L20250062
€46.45
Summer 1943, Rome an open city, Italy prepares to switch sides and installs its army headquarters at Monterotondo, some twenty kilometres from the capital. From late July, the German command takes measures to counter the threat. Italy proclaims the armistice on 8 September; under the command of Major Gericke, 650 German paratroopers of II./FJR 6 jump on...
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BRESLAU - An Impregnable Fortress February - May 1945 BRESLAU - An Impregnable Fortress February - May 1945 2
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BRESLAU - An Impregnable Fortress February - May 1945

L20250061
€37.44
February 1945: the Red Army surges across the Polish plains and into eastern Germany, overwhelming German armies struggling to contain it — objective: the Oder valley, to reach Berlin but also Breslau, capital of Silesia. This region had been founded by German settlers as early as the 12th century. Until now spared by the war, this German province was...
D-Day Girls - Saboteurs, Spies, Resistance Fighters: the...
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D-Day Girls - Saboteurs, Spies, Resistance Fighters: the true story of Churchill's...

L20250060
€18.96
1942. The Allies are losing the war; Germany seems invincible. Churchill, convinced that Great Britain faces an existential threat, creates a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose agents are trained in every kind of technique, from sabotage to precision shooting. Their mission: to "set Europe ablaze". With most men on the front...
LA VIGIE - War Memoirs of a Rear Gunner in the Pathfinders
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LA VIGIE - War Memoirs of a Rear Gunner in the Pathfinders

L20250059
€16.11
The story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small plexiglass bubble of the rear turret of a Lancaster. Originally a member of 626 Squadron, then of 156 Pathfinder Squadron, Ron Smith flew 65 operations, which he recorded with the intensity born of his isolation at the rear of that metal giant. The book describes in fascinating detail the...
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Erwin Rommel. The most famous general of the Third Reich. Erwin Rommel. The most famous general of the Third Reich. 2
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Erwin Rommel. The Most Famous General of the Third Reich.

L20250058
€37.44
Among all the generals of the Third Reich, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is unquestionably the best known, the one whose prestige stands highest. The British, whom he faced in North Africa and in Normandy, were his principal adversaries and those who contributed most to his reputation as a great soldier, a consummate tactician and a chivalrous warrior. They...
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THE 3RD AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION "MARNE DIVISION"
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THE 3RD AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION "MARNE DIVISION"

L20250057
€22.75
This book is the only one in French recounting the history of the 3rd Infantry Division of the United States Army, from its creation to the present day. This major active-duty division is also nicknamed "Marne Division" owing to its exploits in 1918. Between the two wars, it survived on the order of battle despite the "crisis of '29". After the United...
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Memoirs of Hitler's Photographer - "Hitler Was My Friend"
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Memoirs of Hitler's Photographer - "Hitler Was My Friend"

L20250056
€21.80
Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957) is one of the most important figures in the history of the Third Reich. From their first meeting in the Munich beer halls after the First World War, Hitler and he forged a personal friendship and a professional alliance that would prove highly profitable for both men. The first secured the services of a skilled, extremely...
The d'Astier Brothers in the Resistance - François, Henri...
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The d'Astier Brothers in the Resistance - François, Henri and Emmanuel d'Astier de La...

L20250055
€24.17
Unique in the history of the Ordre de la Libération, all three d'Astier de La Vigerie brothers were recognised as Companions by General de Gaulle. François, an air force general and an ace of 1914–1918, was the only French officer throughout the entire war to officially hold the title of deputy to the General; Henri, of Action française inspiration, was...
Padre - Memoirs of a Military Chaplain
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Padre - Memoirs of a Military Chaplain

L20250054
€20.76
"The joy of the soul lies in action." This phrase by Marshal Lyautey perfectly sums up Father Lallemand, as soldier, priest, and man are so intimately intertwined. This remarkable personality devoted his life to his brothers-in-arms. Here is his exceptional testimony, filled with hope. Born in 1937, into a family with a military tradition marked by...
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Les Vampires: Eliminations and Sabotage - Resistance,...
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Les Vampires: Eliminations and Sabotage - Resistance, 1943–1945

L20250053
€21.80
November 1942: the Wehrmacht invaded the free zone, bringing about the establishment of German police and repression services south of the Loire. With the complicity of the Vichy regime, French collaborators of every stripe became the zealous auxiliaries of the occupier. In the Clermont region, Emile Coulaudon, future commander of the FFI in Auvergne,...
Carabiniers du Roi 1693-1791 - Carnet de la Compagnie...
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Carabiniers du Roi 1693-1791 - Carnet de la Compagnie d'Elite

L20250052
€18.96
Here is a regiment that stands truly apart by virtue of its recruitment method, its organisation, its strength and its employment. Thus, - This regiment did not recruit directly, but was "fed" and replenished with recruits by the other cavalry regiments, following a system analogous to that in force for the Compagnie des Grenadiers à cheval de la Garde; -...
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THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE OF FRANCE 1939-1940 THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE OF FRANCE 1939-1940 2
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THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE OF FRANCE 1939-1940

L20250051
€42.65
1939, the year France was plunged into a new world conflict, marked a third black chapter for the customs officers. After 1870 and 1914, the Military Corps of Customs was once again mobilised. Like their predecessors before them, this third generation of customs fighters did their duty, upholding the motto « Honneur et Patrie » on their standard. These...
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Die Kampfgeschwader 54. The Death's Head Wing - Volume II
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Kampfgeschwader 54. The Death's Head Wing - Volume 2

L20250050
€55.92
Kampfgeschwader 54, the Totenkopfgeschwader, is a unit well known to enthusiasts of the air war of the Second World War owing to its death's head insignia inherited from the hussar squadrons. Above all, KG 54 distinguished itself as one of the few Luftwaffe wings to have fought from the first to the last day of the conflict — even if under various forms...
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Kampfgeschwader 54: The Death's Head Wing – Volume 1
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Kampfgeschwader 54: The Death's Head Wing – Volume 1

L20250049
€55.92
The Kampfgeschwader 54, the Totenkopfgeschwader, is a unit well known to enthusiasts of the air war of the Second World War on account of its death's head insignia inherited from hussar squadrons. But above all, KG 54 distinguished itself as one of the few Luftwaffe wings to have fought from the first to the last day of the conflict — even if under...
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The Secret World of the Gauls
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The Secret World of the Gauls

L20250048
€22.65
Thanks to archaeology, Gaul is gradually revealing itself, offering an unexpected vision of the Gaulish world — brilliant and at odds with the accounts handed down by the Greeks and the Romans. Throughout the five centuries of a history cut short by Caesar's conquest and the defeat of Vercingetorix, the Gauls developed an original political and social...
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Rendez-Vous avec La Mort – Recovered Memoirs of a Freedom...
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Rendez-Vous avec La Mort – Recovered Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (1936–1944)

L20250047
€20.85
Salomon Ickovic was born in 1911 in a province of the Kingdom of Hungary that would soon become part of Czechoslovakia. Very young, like so many young Jews of modest origin, he joined the Communist Party and committed himself to the life of a fighter. In 1937 he joined the International Brigades in Spain, before taking refuge in France and joining the...
Oradour Fell Silent - The Tragic Fate of a French...
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Oradour Fell Silent - The Tragic Fate of a French Village, 10 June 1944

L20250046
€21.71
On 10 June 1944, Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges, was annihilated by an SS division: 643 villagers lost their lives, the women and children asphyxiated then burned in the church while the men were murdered in barns. Giving voice back to the dead through the poignant testimonies of survivors, historian Robert Pike immersed himself in the archives to...
An Ordinary Father – In the Footsteps of Alfred Douroux,...
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An Ordinary Father – In the Footsteps of Alfred Douroux, the LVF and the Waffen SS

L20250045
€20.38
On 27 March 1943, Alfred Douroux — Freddy to his friends, to the judges and to the police — enlisted in the Wehrmacht with the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme, the LVF. He pursued his career as a military collaborator in the Waffen SS, fighting in May 1945 among the ruins of Berlin, "a white silk scarf around his neck and a cigar...
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The True Story of the Daltons – Last Outlaws of the Far West
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The True Story of the Daltons – Last Outlaws of the Far West

L20250044
€22.65
The Daltons: behind the pop culture icons lies a violent and little-known history. Their name, inseparable from that of Lucky Luke, evokes four bunglers whose misdeeds always blow up in their faces. But in the Far West of the late nineteenth century, they were feared outlaws who spread terror, and their fall, as brutal as it was spectacular, marked the...
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The Battle of Timimoun - Algeria 1957
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The Battle of Timimoun - Algeria 1957

L20250043
€32.23
Carte blanche! When Lieutenant-Colonel Bigeard, commanding officer of the 3rd Colonial Parachute Regiment, reads the urgent telegram from General Salan, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Algeria, he knows he will have to play a high-stakes game. In the preceding weeks, the Saharan troops and the air force had been unable to track down the deserters...
Anthology of French Military Thinkers
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Anthology of French Military Thinkers

L20250042
€33.08
From the white plume of Henri IV to Napoleon triumphant at the sun of Austerlitz, the French imagination has been nourished by feats of daring from the history of the armies to build a national military culture. The fruit of long-term work bringing together the finest specialists in military history, this anthology allows the reader to grasp its full...
Chronicles of the Liberation – From the Landings to...
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Chronicles of the Liberation – From the Landings to Nuremberg

L20250041
€18.95
6 June 1944: the Allies land on the Normandy coast. 8 May 1945: the armistice between the Allies and Nazi Germany is signed. What happened in a year of fierce fighting and deadly tragedies? Which major events marked the long road to the liberation of France and all of Europe? From Paris to Alsace, from the USSR to Berlin, discover, day by day, the...
The French Colonial Empire - From History to Legacy...
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The French Colonial Empire - From History to Legacy (19th–21st centuries)

L20250040
€34.12
During the 19th and 20th centuries, France established itself as a major colonial power (Maghreb, Africa, Asia, Oceania), driven by a policy of expansion deeply rooted in its political, economic and cultural history. This work addresses the debates it has sparked: the effects of these policies in metropolitan France and in the colonised countries, the...
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German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler
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German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler

L20250039
€22.65
The history of German women's resistance to Hitler has spread mainly through the emblematic figure of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. But many women committed themselves against the National Socialist regime: lawyers, feminists, communists, aristocrats, members of the Red Orchestra, and Protestants alike. This book retraces the as little-known as...
The Women of Block 10 - Medical Experiments at Auschwitz
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The Women of Block 10 - Medical Experiments at Auschwitz

L20250038
€11.85 €23.70
The SS sent a thousand Jewish women from across Europe, including around 130 French women, to Block 10 at Auschwitz. On these women, considered inferior by the Nazi regime, gynaecologist Carl Clauberg tested a special sterilisation method. Other Nazi doctors also used this block for their experiments on human beings. This book is dedicated to their...
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