WORLD WAR II

Intelligence Research Review - No. 1 - Women in Intelligence
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This very first issue of the Intelligence Research Review immerses us in the fascinating world of "women spies" and reveals how they have shaped the history of intelligence through thoroughly documented in-depth articles, striking portraits, and a wealth of further dossiers. The various researchers and authors of this review offer an analysis both of the...
Set Europe Ablaze! - British Special Units and Commandos
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Available June 16, 2025 The Second World War was the true laboratory for what we today call "special forces". While all the belligerents raised commando, sabotage or guerrilla units, it was the British who created the greatest number and often the most original. Indeed, His Majesty's Army has always displayed an innate talent for bringing together...
The 1st Motorised Dragoon Regiment 1929–1940 The 1st Motorised Dragoon Regiment 1929–1940 2
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Available 16 June 2025 The 1st battalion, later regiment, of dragoons embodies the modernisation and mechanisation of the French cavalry during the 1930s. In 1939 it was one of the best trained, most competent and most modern regiments in the army. This first book devoted to this type of regiment covers the unit's history, its operational doctrine, its...
The 2nd U.S. Armored Division in the Eure – 20–25 August... The 2nd U.S. Armored Division in the Eure – 20–25 August... 2
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Objectives: Breteuil, Verneuil, Damville, Conches, Le Neubourg, Iville, Amfreville, Thuit-Signol The end of the Battle of Normandy. When the 2nd U.S. Armored Division arrives in the Eure, it spells the end for the remnants of the German divisions caught in its path, in full retreat from the Falaise-Chambois pocket. This great American formation is one of...
A French Resistance – A Bordeaux Chronicle 1940–1945
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In June 1940 in Bordeaux, a young engineer came, through exceptional circumstances, to hold the position of chief engineer of the Rural Engineering Service. The position of this major port made the Rural Engineering Service — which physically administered the region — vital to the occupier. The author's father would be obliged to collaborate officially...
ENIGMA, The Time of the Precursors – The Biuro Szyfrow...
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Put into service at the dawn of the 1930s, the Enigma machine ensured the encryption of Wehrmacht communications throughout the Second World War. The ability to defeat the billions of combinations generated by its mechanisms stands as one of the principal contributions to victory over the Third Reich. While the cryptological work carried out at Bletchley...
JOSEF MENGELE – Doctor and Executioner
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The first French-language biography of "The Angel of Death". This book comprehensively traces the extraordinary life of a particularly cruel Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele. How did this man come to break the Hippocratic oath in such a monstrous way? The author of The Doctors of Auschwitz recounts Mengele's childhood in Günzburg, his promising future in...
Heinz Guderian – Master of the Panzers
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The first French-language biography of the founding father of the German armoured arm, "soul and genius of the Blitzkrieg", by the foremost military specialist of the Second World War. Guderian: the man clad in the black uniform of the armoured troops who crushed France in 1940 at Sedan, before marching on Moscow. It is to him that Hitler owed his Panzer...
THE MARCEL BLOCH AIRCRAFT - Volume 2: Entry into War
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After an initial attempt that went largely unnoticed, Marcel Bloch was able to establish himself as an aviation industrialist thanks to the success of a second generation of aircraft — the MB 81, MB 120 and MB 200. He then set his teams a sweeping challenge, giving rise to a third generation that included the MB 130, MB 131, MB 210 and MB 220 models,...
André Zirnheld, the Song of a Partisan
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« I want insecurity and anxiety, I want turmoil and the fight » Only two men, Joseph Kessel and André Zirnheld, have bequeathed to us a universal hymn to the Resistance. But while everyone knows Le Chant des partisans, who, beyond veteran circles, has ever read the sublime Prayer of the Compagnon de la Libération Zirnheld — the first FFL paratrooper...
THE SS ORDER – History – Uniforms – Equipment
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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...
La Milice Française Dies in Italy
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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...
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