WORLD WAR II

Shorn Women – The Bonfires of the Liberation Shorn Women – The Bonfires of the Liberation 2
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Shorn Women – The Bonfires of the Liberation

L20250089
€18.96
Humiliated, ostracised, cast out on the roads of disgrace for having had a "culpable" liaison with an occupier — falsely accused or not of "horizontal collaboration" — this work examines the fate of more than 20,000 women in France between 1943 and 1946.
Intelligence Research Review - No. 2 - Intelligence in...
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Intelligence Research Review - No. 2 - Intelligence in Wartime

L20250087
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In this second issue, the Intelligence Research Review immerses us in the heart of intelligence in wartime, with particular emphasis on the two world conflicts that transformed the twentieth century. This review examines the observations and practices of the various actors engaged in these conflicts. Through a series of in-depth dossiers, expert analyses...
Intelligence Research Review - No. 1 - Women in Intelligence
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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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Set Europe Ablaze! - British Special Units and Commandos

L20250085
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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...
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The 1st Motorised Dragoon Regiment 1929–1940 The 1st Motorised Dragoon Regiment 1929–1940 2
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The 1st Motorised Dragoon Regiment 1929–1940

L20250082
€35.07
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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The 2nd U.S. Armored Division in the Eure – 20–25 August 1944

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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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A French Resistance – A Bordeaux Chronicle 1940–1945

L20250079
€15.17
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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ENIGMA, The Time of the Precursors – The Biuro Szyfrow and Section D Against the...

L20250076
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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...
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JOSEF MENGELE – Doctor and Executioner
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JOSEF MENGELE – Doctor and Executioner

L20250075
€21.80
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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Heinz Guderian – Master of the Panzers

L20250074
€24.64
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...
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THE MARCEL BLOCH AIRCRAFT - Volume 2: Entry into War
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THE MARCEL BLOCH AIRCRAFT - Volume 2: Entry into War

L20250070
€74.88
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,...
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André Zirnheld, the Song of a Partisan
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André Zirnheld, the Song of a Partisan

L20250069
€23.70
« 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...
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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...
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...
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

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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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Squadron 303 Auxiliary Flask Whisky - The Blend of Freedom - Squadron 303 Auxiliary Flask Whisky - The Blend of Freedom - 2
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Squadron 303 Auxiliary Flask Whisky - The Blend of Freedom -

DUGAS-RESAUX
€32.50
This Auxiliary Flask contains 70 cl of Squadron 303 Whisky - The Blend of Freedom -. It allows you to refill your Blend of Freedom flask when you run dry, at a very attractive price. THE BLEND OF FREEDOM - SQUADRON 303 WHISKY Blend 44° The Squadron 303 (No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, also known as the Kościuszko Squadron) was the most formidable...
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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...
AN6531 - Limited Edition - American Optical AN6531 - Limited Edition - American Optical 2
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AN-6531 Confort Cable Flying Sunglasses - Limited Edition - American Optical

AO-AN6531
€290.83
- LIMITED EDITION & COLLECTOR'S ITEM - Numbered units. Last units available. Limited stock, no reorder possible. American Optical celebrates 90 years of the Aviator! On the occasion of this historic anniversary, the legendary brand that created the first "Aviator" sunglasses reissues in limited edition the AN-6531-1 model — designed in the 1930s for the...
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