WORLD WAR II

BATTLE FOR POINTE DU HOC
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BATTLE FOR POINTE DU HOC

L20200141
€27.96
Informed by recent discoveries, this work at last offers a precise, detailed and dynamic account — accessible to newcomers and enthusiasts alike — of the spectacular battle fought by the Rangers and the forces of the Wehrmacht at Pointe du Hoc.
THE INEXORABLE DEFEAT – May–June 1940
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THE INEXORABLE DEFEAT – May–June 1940

L20200140
€65.40
After forty-five days of fighting in which heroism vied with cowardice and courage with failure, France reached the end of its ordeal. It is the causes of this inexorable defeat — from the most obvious to the most unsuspected — that this book sets out to analyse point by point.
DAGGERS AND KNIVES OF THE THIRD REICH
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DAGGERS AND KNIVES OF THE THIRD REICH

L20200139
€61.61
This work will soon stand as a reference on a subject that will captivate collectors as well as all those passionate about history, who will find here a richly presented treatment of a particularly abundant topic. Since ancient times, the sword that accompanied the knight carried a highly symbolic value. From the sixteenth century onwards, the sword was...
ACHTUNG TIGER! THE TIGER TANK IN COMBAT - VOLUME 2
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ACHTUNG TIGER! THE TIGER TANK IN COMBAT - VOLUME 2

L20200132
€37.82
Progenitor of a legendary family of armoured vehicles, the Panzer VI Tiger is associated with every military campaign of the Wehrmacht during the second half of the war. No fewer than ten Abteilungen of the Heer and three of the Waffen-SS were equipped with it, whether in the Tiger I or Tiger II version. To this must be added the three heavy tank...
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FRENCH BOMBER AIRCRAFT 1939-1942
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FRENCH BOMBER AIRCRAFT 1939-1942

L20200131
€42.56
REPRINT IN PROGRESS - AVAILABILITY APRIL 2021 - RESERVE YOUR COPY In keeping with the two reference works "Encyclopédie des avions de chasse français" and "Camouflages et marques de l'Aviation Française", Caraktère editions are pleased to announce the release of a third volume dedicated to French bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.
SUBMARINES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – All classes, all...
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SUBMARINES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – All classes, all models, all belligerents

L20200130
€42.56
Between 1939 and 1945, some 2,500 submarines patrolled every sea on the globe. Erminio Bagnasco, a prominent Italian specialist in submarine warfare, has catalogued and detailed all the classes of submarines committed to combat by the eight major naval powers of the era (Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Japan, the United States, the Netherlands and...
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PACIFIC PROFILES VOL 1 - Japanese Army Fighters New...
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PACIFIC PROFILES VOL 1 - Japanese Army Fighters New Guinea & the Solomons 1942-1944

L20200128
€33.18
• Volume One of Pacific Profiles presents detailed profiles and descriptions of Japanese Army Air Force aircraft and units operating in New Guinea and the Solomons from December 1942 to April 1944 The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese aircraft in the "South Seas" theatre. Volume One illustrates,...
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BERLIN WILL BE OURS TOMBEAUT2 - FURIA FRANCESE BERLIN WILL BE OURS TOMBEAUT2 - FURIA FRANCESE 2
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BERLIN SHALL BE OUR GRAVE VOL. 2 - FURIA FRANCESE

L20220228
€13.74
Late April 1945. Berlin is encircled — to the west by the Americans, to the east by the Russians. The smouldering ruins of the Third Reich's capital will be the stage for the final battle, the last stand of a routed army. The Division Charlemagne has suffered heavy losses. The men are exhausted, acutely aware of the inevitable outcome. Their only hope: to...
MAURIENNE 1940
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MAURIENNE 1940

L20200124
€34.12
On 3 September 1939, following Hitler's invasion of Poland, France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. Italy, an ally of that country, announced its non-belligerence. Autumn and winter passed in reinforcing the defensive dispositions amid a certain torpor. In spring, the snowmelt revived the transalpine threat. From 10 May onwards, with the...
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SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 2
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SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955

L20200123
€22.75
Only a part of the history of secret agents parachuted into Europe during World War II is known today — that of the clandestine agents of the SOE, the BCRA or the Abwehr. Drawing on destinies that have remained in the shadows until now, Gaston Erlom recounts a few successes and several tragedies of this struggle. But most of the parachute drops into...
RED DEATH – The War Memoirs of a Stalin's Sniper
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RED DEATH - The War Memoirs of a Stalin Sniper

L20200121
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The war memoirs of Lioudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet female sniper — By Lioudmila Pavlichenko With 309 "kills" to her name, Lioudmila Pavlichenko is the most decorated Soviet female sniper of World War II. From her youth, through her enlistment in the Red Army, to the fascinating details of her missions and the role played by Kremlin propaganda in the...
JUNE 1940 THE BATTLE OF ABBEVILLE – From the Rhineland to Caen with the Company of the "List" Regiment
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JUNE 1940 THE BATTLE OF ABBEVILLE – From the Rhineland to Caen with the Company of the...

L20200120
€20.38
The chronicle of the journey of the horse-drawn infantry gun company of the famous "List" Regiment, which distinguished itself in 1914 and was also the regiment of one Adolf Hitler. Day by day, we follow this unit from the Rhineland to Normandy, passing through Saint-Quentin, Amiens, Le Havre, Rouen and Giberville, near Caen. Day by day, we share the...
DE GAULLE IN HELMET – A New Approach to the Drama
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DE GAULLE UNDER FIRE – A New Approach to the Drama

L20200117
€23.70
A gripping account of a brief but violent period in the life of General de Gaulle who, from 28 May to 5 June 1940, resisted the Germans on the Somme at the head of five hundred tanks.
ALSATIAN PRIESTS CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE REMEMBER
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ALSATIAN PRIESTS CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE REMEMBER

L20200113
€23.70
AROUND TEN PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNTS BRING BACK TO LIFE THE FATE OF YOUNG ALSATIANS DESTINED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, IN AN ANNEXED ALSACE-MOSELLE, CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE FROM AUGUST 1942 INTO THE GERMAN ARMY.
THE FRENCH ON D-DAY
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THE FRENCH ON D-DAY

L20200111
€23.60
It is very often forgotten, but the men of Commando Kieffer were not the only Frenchmen to have taken part in the Normandy Landings. On 6 June 1944, 38 French paratroopers jumped behind enemy lines or were delivered by glider. At dawn, 177 marine fusilier commandos were the first to set foot on Sword Beach, while at sea, twelve French vessels, carrying...
PEARL HARBOR – An Illustrated History
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PEARL HARBOR – An Illustrated History

L20200109
€18.86
7 December 1941. 7 o'clock in the morning. Japanese bombers and fighters sweep down by the hundreds on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack has one objective: to destroy the American fleet and allow Hirohito's empire to take control of the Pacific. And the operation will be a success: the raid enables Imperial Navy pilots to sink numerous...
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The Strange Capture, May 1940 – Unpublished Notebooks of...
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The Strange Capture, May 1940 – Unpublished Notebooks of a 1st Army Staff Officer

L20200108
€16.02
"That evening, a coded telegram was received from Grand Headquarters, the content of which was as follows: 'Commander Fauvelle has set out your situation to me and to Mr Paul Reynaud. I do not underestimate your difficulties. I am counting on you to save everything that can possibly be saved, in honour of the colours in your keeping.' For anyone who can...
PIN-UP WINGS VOLUME 5 PIN-UP WINGS VOLUME 5 2
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PIN-UP WINGS VOLUME 5

L20220277
€15.64
True glamour icons, pin-ups are inseparable from the history of aviation, forever synonymous with adventure and passion. Romain Hugault, a genuine devotee of the genre, is a virtuoso of this art. Between two comic pages, he delights in creating new illustrations of these ever-sprightly ladies — sometimes cheeky, but never vulgar. Painted on a fuselage, on...
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THE MAQUIS OF FRANCE – SITES OF MEMORY
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THE MAQUIS OF FRANCE - PLACES OF MEMORY

L20160287
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Beyond the honours and commemorations, let us remember what the Maquis were… Who were their leaders? Why were young Frenchmen driven to resist by the compulsion of an unacceptable reality, without having fought as free men? The refusal of the STO for some, of the Occupation for others, made them outlaws in the eyes of the Vichy authorities, pushing them...
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GLIÈRES 1944 – History of the Fighting in February and March 1944
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GLIÈRES 1944 – History of the Fighting of February and March 1944

L20200101
€19.91
Glières 1944. More than 60 years ago, the Battle of Glières was a "great and magnificent adventure" (Malraux) that shed the blood of more than a hundred Resistance fighters from Haute-Savoie. This episode, a symbol of Resistance to the Nazi occupation and to the Vichy Order Maintenance Forces (Milice and GMR), had never previously been examined from a...
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U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES 2
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U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES

L20200086
€23.70
The standardisation of the American army's vehicle fleet would take time before being achieved in the early 1940s. In parallel, modern and powerful signal equipment was being developed, and it had to be made mobile. Among the major vehicle families of the U.S. Army, one finds trucks, workshop trucks, vans and trailers designed by the Signal Corps,...
THE ANGEL OF YEU VOL. 1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS THE ANGEL OF YEU VOL. 1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS 2
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L'ANGE D'YEU T1 - ANGELS AND DEMONS

L20220200
€13.74
In the Vendée, on the Île d'Yeu. In the 1930s, Ange-Clovis, a fisherman, loves his boat, the Ange d'Yeu, more than anything… More than the beautiful Agathe, his wife, more than his children… Regularly, he has strange dreams that carry him from one era to another, but they always end the same way: Yeu attacked by the Romans, by the Vikings, by the English...
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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS...
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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"

L20200083
€18.48
Through a fascinating collection of testimonies and numerous photographs from veterans of the "LSSAH" division, the German author Thomas Fischer takes us into the world — often poorly understood — of artillery… and what is more, that of the 1st Waffen-SS division! A welcome change from the Panzers or the Grenadiere, the world of the Artilleristen is just...
GERMAN CIVIL & MILITARY DECORATIONS 1919–1945
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GERMAN CIVIL & MILITARY DECORATIONS 1919–1945

L20200080
€61.61
This work, without equivalent in the French language, presents all German military decorations instituted between 1935 and 1945, in the form of detailed reference sheets accompanied by high-quality photographs, by Jörg-M. Hormann, followed by the civil decorations (including those of the RAD and the Westwall, among others) presented by Volker A. Behr....
THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY
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THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY

L20200079
€13.27
The elimination of collaborators by the Resistance, outside any judicial framework, between 1943 and 1946 in Normandy Spread over three years, from 1943 to 1946, the so-called wild purge claimed around a hundred victims in Normandy. This figure must be set against the legal purge carried out between 1944 and 1947: 39 individuals were shot after being...
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75 OBJECTS OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS
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75 OBJECTS OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS

L20200077
€15.07
Through 75 objects drawn from Bertrand Paris's remarkable Normandy collection, we have attempted to restore to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy the faces and the objects of those who took part in it. Some serve to illustrate a date or an event; others, particularly moving, bring back to life a face, a sacrifice, a body laid forever in the Norman soil....
ALL THE ARMORED VEHICLES OF THE FRENCH ARMY - From... ALL THE ARMORED VEHICLES OF THE FRENCH ARMY - From... 2
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ALL THE ARMORED VEHICLES OF THE FRENCH ARMY - From Origins to 1940

L20200076
€37.87
2nd edition of Tous les blindés de l'armée française des origines à 1940, by François Vauvillier. When France entered the war in September 1939, its rearmament effort since the adoption of the first new-model equipment in 1935 had been considerable: more than 2,700 modern combat vehicles — tanks and armoured cars — had been delivered over four years by...
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THE NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF CAMP
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THE NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF CAMP

L20200072
€21.14
Between 1941 and 1945, Alsace, annexed to the Third Reich, saw the establishment of one of the deadliest concentration camps of the Second World War: KL-Natzweiler. Of the 52,000 individuals who passed through it, more than 20,000 never returned, victims of terrifying detention conditions, devastating scientific experiments and merciless "death marches"....
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