WORLD WAR II

The Landing Ships – Naval Battles from June to December 1944 The Landing Ships – Naval Battles from June to December 1944 2
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The tourist or museum visitor who discovers the history of the Normandy Landings sometimes encounters, during their visits, the remains of ships or weapons recovered from the seabed. Rarely documented and often left to one side on a lawn or in a corner of an exhibition, these relics — anchors, propellers or guns — remain silent and contribute little to an...
The Wrecks of the Landings The Wrecks of the Landings 2
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Wrecks of the D-Day Landings

L20200226
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History of scrapping in Lower Normandy The military events of the summer of 1944 left a lasting wound on Norman soil. Whether in print or digital form, numerous media explain in detail those long months of total war that came to a temporary end on the banks of the Seine. They leave us with the vague impression that we know the subject, while an entire...
The Canadians to the Rescue of Europe The Canadians to the Rescue of Europe 2
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€24.17
During the 20th century, two generations of Canadians crossed the Atlantic to come to the defence of threatened democracy in Europe. These soldiers distinguished themselves, during the First World War at Vimy, and during the Second at Dieppe, in Sicily, in Normandy and later in Holland. Richly illustrated, this book recounts the heroic contribution of the...
Calvados in the War 1939–1945
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Calvados in the War 1939–1945

L20200224
€23.22
The Allied landings of 6 June 1944 have monopolised the Norman memory of the Second World War, to the point of overshadowing vast swathes of the history of that period. Normans are inexhaustible when it comes to the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy, yet they are far less forthcoming about the Occupation, or else content themselves with lamentable...
Fighting and Dying in Normandy
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Fighting and Dying in Normandy

L20200223
€23.22
The GIs and the experience of combat — From death to memory, Normandy 1944. Who has never tried to enter the minds of the GIs plunged into the hell of the Battle of Normandy during the summer of 1944? For the first time, a work derived from a doctoral thesis finally sheds light on the combat behaviour of American Army soldiers, a subject too often...
D Day: 6 June–14 August 1944 – 70 Days to Liberate the Manche D Day: 6 June–14 August 1944 – 70 Days to Liberate the Manche 2
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Presented in the form of a travel journal, this work retraces day by day the major events that marked the liberation of the Manche département. Published to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, this art edition, printed on drawing paper, offers an original artistic perspective on the Landings and the Battle of Normandy in the Manche.
The Falaise Region in the War 1939–1945
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€18.96
Occupied by the Germans on 17 June 1940, the town of Falaise — birthplace of William the Conqueror — was about to endure four difficult years under the heel of the occupier. But an equally painful ordeal awaited its population: in August 1944, the German 7th Army, in full retreat, was caught in the Falaise-Chambois Pocket. After ferocious fighting, the...
The Twilight of the Grenadiers
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The Twilight of the Grenadiere

L20200219
€22.75
After losing approximately 6,000 Grenadiere in the fierce fighting south of Caen, the survivors of the 272. Inf. Div. must resist the courageous Scottish soldiers of the 51st Highland Division preparing to liberate the Pays d'Auge. But they had not reckoned with this horse-drawn infantry division commanded by the implacable Generalleutnant Schack and his...
The Retreat of the German Army to the Seine
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With this book, Didier Lodieu revisits the sacrifice of the Jäger of the 17. Felddivision (L) committed to the fighting on the Seine front. The action begins on 23 August 1944, by which date this Army division numbered no more than 50 men following engagements along the Avre and subsequent defensive withdrawals to Évreux. Despite their heavy losses,...
The Meindl Division
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The Meindl Division

L20200217
€17.06
In January 1942, new units had to be formed urgently to make up for the shortage of manpower on the Eastern Front. The victory promised by Hitler for December 1941 was far from won. Paratroopers were called upon to fight as elite infantry at the hotspots of northern Russia. But their fighting value could not compensate for their insufficient numbers. The...
Hell South of Caen
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Hell South of Caen

L20200216
€23.70
Didier Lodieu retraces the history of the 272. Infanterie-Division with the support of that division's veterans' association. All the veterans who fought in Normandy contributed their testimonies, documents and photographs during the 1990s, before the association was dissolved. The division's formation began in the Lyon region, then continued in the south...
Flak in the West
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Flak in the West

L20200215
€20.85
Drawing on recently discovered documents, Didier Lodieu offers a gripping account of the fate of two Flak battalions in Normandy. Until now, no work has presented such a wealth of information on this arm during that battle. You will see under what conditions the units moved up to the front, how they opposed the Allied forces and how they were all but...
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