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2.PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL.3 - Falaise and Retreat,... 2.PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL.3 - Falaise and Retreat,... 2
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2.PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL.3 - Falaise and Retreat, 13 August – September 1944

L20210139
€55.92
The final act of the 2. Panzer-Division's engagement at the heart of the Battle of Normandy begins on 13 August 1944, in Volume III of the three-volume series on the German armoured unit. The transfer between Alençon and Argentan plunges the unit into the exhaustion of its combat strength over a week of dramatic retreat. After the illusions of...
Grenadier of the Guard, Memoirs of Commandant Monnot Grenadier of the Guard, Memoirs of Commandant Monnot 2
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Grenadier of the Guard, Memoirs of Commandant Monnot

L20210138
€18.96
Account of Claude Monnot: enlisted as a Vélite, promoted to Grenadier of the Guard in 1806, and incorporated into the Fusiliers Grenadiers in 1807. The Vélites: creation, organisation, uniform, daily life and field engagements. The Briquet sabre of the Fusiliers Grenadiers. Who were the musicians of the band of the Foot Grenadiers of the Guard? Figurine...
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Who Dares Wins – From Gaugamela to Ouadi Doum: When...
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Who Dares Wins – From Gaugamela to Ouadi Doum: When Boldness Changes the Course of Battles

L20210136
€25.50
Strike at the head, wrong-foot the enemy, appear from nowhere… These are some of the audacious tactics analysed in Qui ose vaincra. Following the successes of L'Art de conduire une bataille and Les 7 Péchés capitaux du chef militaire, this third volume explores the different forms of boldness in combat, from the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC to the...
NORMANDY 44: INFANTRY, QUEEN OF BATTLES
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NORMANDY 44: INFANTRY, QUEEN OF BATTLES

L20210130
€17.06
The role of infantry in the Battle of Normandy in June, July and August 1944 Many summarise the Battle of Normandy as tank clashes in the bocage or on the Caen plain. Others think of Patton's armoured breakout. Yet infantry divisions were in the majority. It is they who fight on 6 June, on both the Allied and German sides. It is American infantrymen who...
The Battle of the Alps – 1940
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The Battle of the Alps – 1940

L20210126
€28.34
OUT OF PRINT The definitive book on the Battle of the Alps, France's only victory in 1940. In June 1940, as France was suffering the worst military defeat in its history, the Army of the Alps resisted Italian assaults with success and even managed to counter the flanking attack launched by the Germans in the direction of Grenoble and Annecy.
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The Kampfgeschwader 6
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The Kampfgeschwader 6

L20210125
€45.50
The 6th Bomber Wing of the Luftwaffe remains a unit still relatively little known, owing to its comparatively brief existence. It was indeed formed with great difficulty following an order of October 1941, having been conceived to support KG 2 in its sporadic harassment operations against Great Britain. Its build-up was slow and laborious due to a lack of...
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A UN Blue Helmet Among the Khmer Rouge – Journal of a...
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A UN Blue Helmet Among the Khmer Rouge – Journal of a Peacekeeping Soldier, Cambodia 1992

L20210123
€18.48
On his first overseas mission, Captain Guillaume Ancel, aged 27, arrives in Cambodia in May 1992 — a country ravaged by twenty years of war. Alongside the soldiers of the UNTAC peacekeeping mission (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia), the task is to enforce the Paris Agreements, beginning with the disarmament of the factions. Easier said...
ACHTUNG PANZER! – HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG
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ACHTUNG PANZER! – HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG

L20210122
€23.70
HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG This book is not for every reader. This is neither a biography, nor the war memoirs of a celebrated soldier, still less a work recounting the adventures of combatants caught up in the thunder of battle. No, Achtung Panzer! is anything but that! It is a military essay — but no ordinary one: the very work that...
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THE SAMURAI ATTACK – How Japan Almost Won the War
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THE SAMURAI ATTACK – How Japan Almost Won the War

L20210121
€33.08
In this compelling analysis, Simon Le Bouché revisits the first year of war waged by the Empire of the Rising Sun in the Asia-Pacific theatre, deciphering its war machine and strategies. All fronts and all operational theatres of the three arms (land, air, sea) are presented and explained, as are the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese forces as well...
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Encyclopedia of German Fighter Aircraft 1939-1945
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Encyclopedia of German Fighter Aircraft 1939-1945

L20210120
€42.56
In its series of encyclopaedias devoted to Second World War aircraft, Caraktère turns this time to the fighters of the Luftwaffe, written by historian Chris Goss. With some thirty aircraft covered, including the essential Fw 190, Bf 109 and Bf 110, this book examines the full range of German piston-engined and jet fighters in service between 1933 and...
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 2 1943-1945 // The Zenith
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 2 1943-1945 // The Zenith

L20210119
€37.82
The Soviet victory at Stalingrad, despite the losses, marks the beginning of the Red Army's transformation. Driven by ambitious generals (and an omnipotent Stalin), it gradually changed beyond recognition, bearing almost no resemblance to the army of the summer of 1941. Despite German resistance, the Soviets pressed on towards the very heart of the III....
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World Naval Aviation since 1945
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World Naval Aviation since 1945

L20210118
€33.18
An overview of carrier-borne aircraft since 1945. Every country with a maritime domain, whatever its extent, maintains a naval air arm. This typically comprises carrier-borne aircraft, land-based maritime patrol aircraft and, in some cases, flying boats. After the Second World War, the maritime powers sought to rebuild their naval air arms in order to be...
La Traction Avant Citroën sous l'Uniforme - Tome 2 La Traction Avant Citroën sous l'Uniforme - Tome 2 2
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La Traction Avant Citroën sous l'Uniforme - Tome 2

L20210115
€37.87
The Citroën Traction Avant was the most-produced car in France before 1940: more than 250,000 examples were on the roads of the country and the world at the time. It is therefore no surprise to find it, during the Second World War, accompanying both armies and civilian populations on every front, in every territory, including the most remote. The...
FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954 FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954 2
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FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954

L20210114
€37.87
The French Army's airborne troops underwent spectacular growth during the Indochina War, following the initial formations raised with Allied assistance in 1943–1945. The fighting in Indochina, with its violence and sporadic character, severely tested these units, which carried out numerous combat jumps across every hotspot, right up to the sacrifice at...
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Par le sang versé - La Légion étrangère en Indochine
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Par le sang versé - La Légion étrangère en Indochine

L20210112
€9.95
Their war lasted fifteen years, from the banks of the Rhine or the Oder in 1940 to the basin of Diên Biên Phu in 1954. French soldiers who had broken with Vichy or heroes of the Free French, soldiers of the Wehrmacht or from the eastern marches of Europe, a generation ground down by a world conflict, they carved out an adventure as one plays a final card....
The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport (1914–1917)
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The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport (1914–1917)

L20210111
€18.96
20,000 Leagues Across the Seas — The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport presents itself as a collection of letters written between August 1914 and January 1917 by the first mate of the cargo ship Pamir to his closest friend, mobilised as a gunner aboard a battleship. Through these dispatches, we follow the ship's constant movements across the most varied of...
The British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second...
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The British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second World War

L20210110
€22.75
The role of the British soldier in the defeat of Nazi Germany reassessed and given its rightful place. Benoît Rondeau exhaustively examines the particular characteristics of the soldier of the British Empire, the conditions in which he fought, how he was trained, commanded, equipped, cared for... He seeks to capture in its entirety the daily life of the...
THE JUNKERS JU-52 AND AAC.1 TOUCAN UNDER OUR ROUNDELS
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THE JUNKERS JU-52 AND AAC.1 TOUCAN UNDER OUR ROUNDELS

L20210108
€53.08
A German engineer, Hugo Junkers was the pioneer of all-metal aircraft construction and, from 1914 onwards, developed several models dedicated to air transport. As the culmination of this line of aircraft, the prototype of the Junkers 52, designed in 1930 at the request of the national carrier Lufthansa, was initially a single-engine aircraft; the Ju 52,...
LES RADIOS ALLIÉES - Volume 1 - British, American and... LES RADIOS ALLIÉES - Volume 1 - British, American and... 2
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LES RADIOS ALLIÉES - Volume 1 - British, American and Canadian Signal Equipment 1940-1945

L20210107
€75.36
"On 6 June 1944, on the beaches as in the hinterland, almost all orders and reports — with rare exceptions — for every combat arm were transmitted by radio-electronic links…" Celebrating human ingenuity, radio is the domain of intelligent, rigorous, innovative and open-minded individuals. Little known, radio-electronic communications nonetheless represent...
THE BLACK ANGEL OF THE GESTAPO - Normandy 1942-1944
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THE BLACK ANGEL OF THE GESTAPO - Normandy 1942-1944

L20210105
€13.27
Who exactly was this black angel of the Gestapo in Normandy? Marie-Clotilde de Combiens, a young woman of 22 in 1943, made a name for herself by becoming the mistress of the head of the Sipo-SD branch in Caen, Harald Heyns alias Bernard. Having found each other on a train between Paris and Cherbourg, Marie-Clotilde and Bernard would complement one...
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Julien Lenoir - Collaborator from Caen
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Julien Lenoir - Collaborator from Caen

L20210104
€13.27
Historian Yves Lecouturier presents a new chapter in the story of collaboration in Normandy from 1940 to 1944: a portrait of one of the most significant figures of the collaboration in Caen, a city severely tried by the Battle of Normandy.
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BLUE LIKE STEEL - US Navy Carrier Fighters in the Pacific. BLUE LIKE STEEL - US Navy Carrier Fighters in the Pacific. 2
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BLUE LIKE STEEL - US Navy Carrier Fighters in the Pacific.

L20210102
€37.82
The Navy and the Marines entered the Second World War with barely more than a hundred single-engine fighters: Brewster F2As and Grumman F4Fs — single-role aircraft, dedicated exclusively to the defence of their bases or carriers. In the space of a few years, drawing on its formidable industrial machine, America would throw itself into the design and...
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