WORLD WAR II

THE CONQUEST OF THE SKY - World War II in Colour
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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...
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D-DAY and the Battle of Normandy - World War II in Colour
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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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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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THE THREE DAYS THAT BROUGHT DOWN FRANCE - 11–13 June 1940

L20230072
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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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THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS - The Untold History of Native Americans in the U.S. Army

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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 - 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...
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FINLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1938–1948
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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...
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TANKS IN GERMANY 1944–1945
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TANKS IN GERMANY 1944–1945

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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...
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Camouflages & Markings of the Luftwaffe 1933–1945
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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...
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TRACTORS & SEMI-TRAILERS OF THE U.S. ARMY TRACTORS & SEMI-TRAILERS OF THE U.S. ARMY 2
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TRACTORS & SEMI-TRAILERS OF THE U.S. ARMY

L20230059
€24.64
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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KÉPI: A French Headpiece. Volume 2: the military képi from 1939 to the present day,...

L20230058
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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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TILL THE JOB IS DONE - Letters from the Front

L20230054
€28.34
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...
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