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American Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers – Volume I
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Navires & Histoire du Monde Collection N°43 The American Essex-class aircraft carriers served from 1943 to 1991, from the second half of the Pacific War to the end of the Cold War. Twenty-four vessels were actually commissioned. No two ships are exactly alike, owing to different shipyards, evolving detection equipment, varying degrees of modernisation,...
The Death Corridor Mortain-Falaise-Argentan 1944 The Death Corridor Mortain-Falaise-Argentan 1944 2
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The "death corridor" is the neck of the famous Falaise-Argentan pocket where the German fighting forces in Normandy were to be crushed by Allied power. The Germans left several thousand dead and 40,000 prisoners in the pocket after roughly half of them managed to force their way through. This work recounts that hell. The Battle of Mortain with sensational...
Dying for Crisbecq and Azeville Dying for Crisbecq and Azeville 2
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Dying for Crisbecq and Azeville

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June 6, 6:31 a.m., the 4th Infantry Division lands on Utah Beach while the US Navy, with the USS Nevada, exchanges fire with the German batteries, including the powerful 210 mm guns of the Crisbecq battery, supported by the 105 mm guns of Azeville. At 6:33 a.m., Crisbecq fires three shells below the waterline of the USS Corry, which sinks shortly...
1940 – The Battle of the Marne That Never Was
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Maxime Mainguet analyses the missed opportunities of the Battle of France e. An unstoppable Blitzkrieg? Overwhelming German superiority? Not quite. In Cette bataille de la Marne qui n'a pas eu lieu, Maxime Mainguet offers an original and strategic reappraisal of the Battle of France. Mirroring the "Miracle of the Marne" of 1914, he examines the moment...
On the Roads to Freedom
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On the Roads to Freedom

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Chronicles of a French soldier on campaign, from Monthermé to Indochina
Equipages. Life on Board and Traditions of the Sailors of... Equipages. Life on Board and Traditions of the Sailors of... 2
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La Marine nationale (La Royale) is one of the last institutions that can pride itself on the human dimension of a crew. When the last mooring line of one of its vessels slips into the water, a very particular world comes into being in an instant. A group of men and women leaves dry land to live a collective experience in a closed environment, far from any...
GENERAL PAU — HE COULD HAVE BEEN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, HE...
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Alsatian by blood shed At the age of 22, Second Lieutenant Gérald Pau was severely wounded in the right hand during the terrible Battle of Froeschwiller in 1870. Faced with amputation, he asked to be operated on without anaesthesia, so that the small amount of product available could be reserved for the more gravely wounded soldiers. This gesture, which...
General Valin. Commander of the Free French Air Forces
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The man who gave wings to Free France A discreet yet central figure of Free France, Martial Valin (1898–1980) was the man who gave wings to the Gaullist struggle. A courageous pilot, visionary military commander, outstanding organiser, he embodies the rebirth of French air power at a moment when all seemed lost. In 1941, he took command of the FAFL and...
News from Sainte-Engrâce? Chronicles of an Ordinary Hero
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Chronicles of an Ordinary Intelligence Services Hero ­ y name is Alex. My father is Jewish and my mother is English. An explosive combination during the Second World War. I was fourteen years old when we escaped the Nazis via the Pyrenees, taking refuge first in Spain, then in Portugal. It was in Sainte-Engrâce, an isolated village in...
Mexican Campaign 1862-1867 - Carnets de la Sabretache Mexican Campaign 1862-1867 - Carnets de la Sabretache 2
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Initially hailed by the apologists of the Second Empire as the "greatest idea of the reign" of Emperor Napoleon III, the French army's expedition to Mexico ended, after several years of a gruelling and brutal campaign, in a humiliating withdrawal in 1867.This unhappy episode, which marked the beginning of the regime's military decline, nonetheless leaves...
The Cry of the Waves 943: The Battle of Tarawa
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A true tactical laboratory, Tarawa forged the identity of the Marine Corps and lastingly transformed the conduct of amphibious assaults. The Battle of Tarawa decoded by a Marine Corps general. Following a precise account of the operations, the commanders involved and the equipment used, the author offers a resolutely tactical reading of the battle,...
The Submarines of the D-Day Landings The Submarines of the D-Day Landings 2
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The danger comes from the deep Fallen into oblivion, the fierce naval battles of the First World War left no trace in the public memory. Yet with the use of submarine warfare, they foreshadowed what would become the formidable Battle of the Atlantic convoys during the Second World War. In May 1944, 26 German submarines — relentless hunters of cargo...
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