WORLD WAR II

GRAUBLAU! LUFTWAFFE WOOL TUNICS GRAUBLAU! LUFTWAFFE WOOL TUNICS 2
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GRAUBLAU! LUFTWAFFE WOOL TUNICS

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Luftwaffe tunics in grey-blue cloth (Graublau), whose cut blends tradition and modernity, were worn both as walking-out dress and in combat. These are rare uniforms, highly prized by collectors who favour pieces in their original patina, worn in action by combatants — pilots, artillerymen, and of course paratroopers. The aim of this book is to present...
THE TIGER TANK OF VIMOUTIERS in Normandy
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Collective work The Tiger tank of Vimoutiers is the only German armoured vehicle of this type engaged in the final phase of the Battle of Falaise-Chambois to have remained in place since the end of the conflict. For nearly eight decades now, its silhouette has become a familiar sight. A rest area allows tourists and curious visitors to approach this...
THE CONQUEST OF THE SKY - World War II in Colour
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Relive the key moments of the aerial battles of the Second World War through colourised black-and-white photographs. In The Conquest of the Sky, Francis Dréer delivers a presentation and analysis of the air forces during the Second World War, through an exceptional iconography — all photographs having been colourised especially for the work by the...
D-DAY and the Battle of Normandy - World War II in Colour
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Relive the key moments of the greatest military operation in History through colourised black-and-white photographs. "Germany first!" — such was the key phrase of the strategy adopted by the British and Americans from 1941. Admittedly, during the conflict, the Pacific front was important, but Allied high commands decided very early on to concentrate all...
BEFORE MEIN KAMPF - The Formative Years of Adolf Hitler
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In Mein Kampf, the autobiography he wrote in 1924–1925, Hitler presents himself as a perfect self-taught man with a fully formed worldview. Yet the man in his thirties who entered politics at the end of the First World War had no fixed opinions, nor even strong antisemitic convictions. Drawing on Hitler's earliest texts — some translated here for the...
THE THREE DAYS THAT BROUGHT DOWN FRANCE - 11–13 June 1940
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When France collapsed in June 1940, attention has often focused solely on the cabinet meeting of 16 June in Bordeaux, where President of the Council Paul Reynaud stepped aside to make way for Marshal Pétain. Yet this book, built on all available archives in Paris and Tours, shows that the Reynaud government — which left the capital amid the chaos of the...
THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS - The Untold History of Native...
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Throughout his career as a foreign correspondent, Emmanuel Razavi had the opportunity to spend time on numerous occasions among the Native Americans of Canada and the United States. Over the years, he made friends among the Sioux, the Mohawks, the Cheyennes and the Navajos. Thanks to them, he was able to obtain exceptional interviews with the last...
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC - World War II in Colour
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The Battle of the Atlantic was, from September 1939 to May 1945, the longest battle of the entire Second World War. It was also, and remains, the least known. No ruins left by the bombing, no makeshift graves for the sailors, no visible destruction, no scars. Only the ocean. An Atlantic Ocean that was one of the major stakes of the war for both...
FINLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1938–1948
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Between Stalin and Hitler: an unjustly overlooked and highly instructive history. This work deals with the history of Finland during the Second World War, from the first crises of 1938 to the signing in 1948 of a bilateral treaty with Moscow. For the country, the winter of 1939–1940 began badly: attacked in late November by the USSR, it seemed on the...
TANKS IN GERMANY 1944–1945
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TANKS IN GERMANY 1944–1945

L20230063
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This book, following Tanks in Normandy, revisits the German Campaign from September 1944, painting a portrait of this "beginning of the end" for German forces in the West. From the Battle of Aachen to the famous capture of the Remagen bridge, through the fighting in the Hürtgen Forest and operations in the Ruhr, Franck Segrétain brilliantly covers the...
Camouflages & Markings of the Luftwaffe 1933–1945
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In Reprint – Delivery late November 2023 Absolutely everything is scrutinised by the author, who drew on thousands of archival documents gathered over decades of research to offer this study without equal to date. Enriched with hundreds of photographs and dozens of colour profiles, as well as contemporary sketches, this work proves indispensable to every...
TRACTORS & SEMI-TRAILERS OF THE U.S. ARMY TRACTORS & SEMI-TRAILERS OF THE U.S. ARMY 2
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US Army WW2 trucks, tractors and semi-trailers, by Didier Andres. In the late 1930s, two major schools of thought clashed within the United States Army, which had embarked on a profound restructuring of its units and vehicle fleet. In the field of logistical support, the advocates of the trailer and semi-trailer concept championed a physical separation...
KÉPI: A French Headpiece. Volume 2: the military képi... KÉPI: A French Headpiece. Volume 2: the military képi... 2
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PRE-ORDER ONLINE - BOOK AVAILABLE FROM 30 MAY 2023 The history of the képi is covered here in its entirety for the first time. This headpiece alone symbolizes the French soldier, but it is also, by extension, the official representation of the military man and the civil servant. A képi conveys a great deal of information about its wearer, beginning with...
TILL THE JOB IS DONE - Letters from the Front
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Illustrated with newly colorized period photographs and battlefield relics, discover for the first time the complete correspondence of an American officer of the 4th Infantry Division, from the Norman fields to the dark Hürtgen Forest, by way of the Liberation of Paris! Poignant letters and a true story that prompt us to reflect on the ravages of war and...
THE BUHARA ADVENTURE - Resistance and Deportation -...
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On the evening of 12 February 1941, in the Bay of la Fresnaye, 15 young men — including 9 trainee pilots and their instructor — boarded the Buhara in silence to join England and General de Gaulle's Free France. Louis Delabruyère, barely 20 years old, was one of them. But their attempt failed... A rare and thoroughly documented personal account of the...
RUM THE PACIFIC ACE - SQUADRON 303 RUM THE PACIFIC ACE - SQUADRON 303 2
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RUM THE PACIFIC ACE - SQUADRON 303

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Squadron 303 The Pacific Ace Rum - The Aviator Style Rum "During the Second World War, Marine Corps commander Greg 'Pappy' Boyington led a fighter pilot squadron. It was made up of misfits and adventurers who became the Aces of the South Pacific. They were called… the Black Sheep." Inspired by the history of squadron VMF-214 immortalized by the famous TV...
THE BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ - 1939/1944
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The Tirpitz was, without a doubt, one of the most formidable warships of her generation. Of redoubtable and uncontested power, the Bismarck's sistership spent the majority of her career in the Norwegian fjords. After brief and inconclusive sorties against Allied convoys, a remarkable human adventure would unfold in the effort to neutralize Hitler's last...
THE LUFTWAFFE IN BELGIUM. VOLUME II - Escalating Combat...
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In 1941–1942, setting aside Bomber Command's night operations, the air war ultimately had little impact on Belgium. 1943, the pivotal year of the Second World War, was nonetheless marked for that country by the growing incursions of the US 8th Air Force's heavy bombers, which until then had made little showing in Belgian airspace. From 6 April 1943, the...
THE ABWEHR - 1939-1945: German Secret Services in France
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The first comprehensive synthesis of the role played by German military intelligence in France under the Occupation. While many organisations of the Third Reich are well known — the all-powerful state militia (SS), the Nazi party's secret police (Gestapo), or its security arm (SD) — the Abwehr is less celebrated. Yet it played a crucial role during the...
A JOURNEY THROUGH OCCUPIED FRANCE 1940-1945 - 4,000...
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Starting from a survey of more than 4,000 places across France — many of them familiar — department by department, town by town, the work A Journey through Occupied France sets out to rediscover what took place there during the Occupation (1940–1945), which men and women, French and German, inhabited those places, and what those places have since become....
ART FROM THE FRONT - WORKS OF ART FROM THE WEHRMACHT
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This previously unpublished volume brings together nearly one hundred paintings by Wehrmacht war artists. Most of them members of a specialised unit established on Hitler's orders, the artists sent to the front were tasked with bearing witness to the fighting. The works they produced, far removed from any form of propaganda, bear witness to the tragedy of...
THE LORRAINE GROUP - From the Libyan Desert to the... THE LORRAINE GROUP - From the Libyan Desert to the... 2
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In September 1941, the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres assigned the names of occupied French provinces to their combat units. Bomber Group No. 1, just formed from the Reserve Bomber Group No. 1 (a veteran of Kufra and Abyssinia), thus took the name "Lorraine". Equipped with Bristol Blenheim aircraft, it took part in Operation Crusader in Libya against...
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles 2
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Alamo, Sidi-Brahim, Camerone, Bazeilles, Fort de Vaux, the Alcázar of Toledo, Westerplatte, Wizna, Saumur, Bir Hakeim, Les Glières, Iwo Jima, Diên Biên Phu. What do Alamo, Camerone, Iwo Jima, and Bir Hakeim have in common? The determination of the defenders who, without faltering, face an adversary vastly superior in numbers and materiel. Surrounded and...
THE STUKAS ATTACK - Battle of Britain
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The Junkers Ju 87 in the Battle of Britain The Stuka is the best-known German aircraft of the Second World War, having left an enduring impression with its angular silhouette and its near-vertical dives. This book, which focuses on Stuka operations during the Battle of Britain, corrects a widely repeated misconception: no, the Stuka did not suffer such...
THE ORNE BRIDGEHEAD - June–August 1944
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Pegasus Bridge, the capture of Ranville bridge and the fighting that followed In the night of 4 to 5 June 1944, gliders of the British 6th Airborne Division landed silently near several key points east of the Orne canal. The objective was to establish a solid front to prevent any German counter-attack towards the beaches where, a few hours later, the...
ROMANIA AND THE HOLOCAUST
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ROMANIA AND THE HOLOCAUST

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In the late 1930s, nearly 760,000 Jews lived in Romania. By 1945, only 375,000 remained. Based on privileged access to the secret archives of the Romanian government, this book offers an unprecedented analysis of thousands of documents deliberately concealed until the 1990s. Drawing on archival records, reports, survivors' memoirs, and private letters,...
UNTIL THE FALL – Memoirs of Hitler's Butler
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The last great firsthand account of Hitler in private. SS Commander Heinz Linge (1913–1980) served for ten years as Adolf Hitler's butler. This former bricklayer joined the military ranks in 1933, initially becoming a bodyguard. He gradually entered his master's inner circle, becoming one of his most loyal attendants. Here at last is the French...
1940 Reporter on Three Fronts 1940 Reporter on Three Fronts 2
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1940 Reporter on Three Fronts

L2023029
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Three operations with a Luftwaffe radio reporter: Norway, France, and over England With this album, we follow three operations alongside a Luftwaffe radio reporter, through some forty dynamic and compelling reports, accompanied by around fifty photographs directly related to these accounts. Added to these is an introductory chapter on the first airborne...
THE NETWORK - The last secrets of the Resistance
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At the age of 100, Edgar Morin makes one final request of his biographer: to investigate the Charette resistance network, to which he belonged alongside Mitterrand, Jankélévitch, Clara Malraux and many others. A network entirely forgotten, yet decisive in the history of the Resistance, and compellingly novelistic. The Charrette network was an...
Baldur Von Schirach - From the Hitler Youth to the...
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From the upper echelons of the Prussian bourgeoisie, Baldur von Schirach spent his childhood in the shadow of his father, who was committed to the far right. An ambitious young man, Baldur rose rapidly through the Nazi system: he joined the NSDAP at 18 and became leader of the Hitler Youth at 24. He managed its direction and organisation, overseeing the...
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