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PAGES ON TACTICS – Chronicles and Articles for Candidates...
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"These chronicles have their origin in notes written for the candidates to the École de Guerre whom I was tasked with preparing for this demanding examination. Their grounding in military culture had become somewhat eroded during their deployments on external operations or during their postings in metropolitan France, where their interests were far more...
ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES - Large Format ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES - Large Format 2
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February 1954… In Korea, after four years of a bloody conflict, a fragile armistice has been signed! The war is put on pause for thousands of GIs, even as the situation is more tense than ever and a nuclear conflict looms. Yet there is a buzz on the American bases… For, on her honeymoon in Japan with her new husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn...
ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES 2
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ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES

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February 1954… In Korea, after four years of a bloody conflict, a fragile armistice has been signed! The war is put on pause for thousands of GIs, even as the situation is more tense than ever and a nuclear conflict looms. Yet there is a buzz on the American bases… For, on her honeymoon in Japan with her new husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn...
KÉPI: A French Headpiece. Volume 2: the military képi... KÉPI: A French Headpiece. Volume 2: the military képi... 2
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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...
LIBERTY! FRANCE'S DECISIVE ROLE IN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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The role of the French in North America in the 18th century is largely unknown. Yet they were to occupy a pivotal position in the transformation of that territory into a major political entity for the two centuries that followed. Indeed, a former British general, George Washington, sought the help of yesterday's enemy — France — to assist the American...
TILL THE JOB IS DONE - Letters from the Front
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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...
THE BUHARA ADVENTURE - Resistance and Deportation -...
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On the evening of 12 February 1941, in the Bay of la Fresnaye, 15 young men — including 9 trainee pilots and their instructor — boarded the Buhara in silence to join England and General de Gaulle's Free France. Louis Delabruyère, barely 20 years old, was one of them. But their attempt failed... A rare and thoroughly documented personal account of the...
Waging War – Conversations on the Operational Art
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A two-voice reflection on war and strategy, the like of which France has not seen in a long time. Why, throughout the centuries, have generals won so many victories that did not bring an end to the conflict? Why did the blood shed serve the objectives assigned by political authority to its armies so poorly? Why, to take one example among a thousand, were...
THE BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ - 1939/1944
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The Tirpitz was, without a doubt, one of the most formidable warships of her generation. Of redoubtable and uncontested power, the Bismarck's sistership spent the majority of her career in the Norwegian fjords. After brief and inconclusive sorties against Allied convoys, a remarkable human adventure would unfold in the effort to neutralize Hitler's last...
THE LUFTWAFFE IN BELGIUM. VOLUME II - Escalating Combat...
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In 1941–1942, setting aside Bomber Command's night operations, the air war ultimately had little impact on Belgium. 1943, the pivotal year of the Second World War, was nonetheless marked for that country by the growing incursions of the US 8th Air Force's heavy bombers, which until then had made little showing in Belgian airspace. From 6 April 1943, the...
THE ABWEHR - 1939-1945: German Secret Services in France
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The first comprehensive synthesis of the role played by German military intelligence in France under the Occupation. While many organisations of the Third Reich are well known — the all-powerful state militia (SS), the Nazi party's secret police (Gestapo), or its security arm (SD) — the Abwehr is less celebrated. Yet it played a crucial role during the...
13e RDP - FIGHTING IN ALGERIA FROM KABYLIA TO...
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In the wake of the 70th anniversary celebrations of the transformation of the "13" into a parachute regiment, and ahead of the 60th anniversary of its entry into airborne reconnaissance, the new expanded and updated edition of the work by Mark Bruschi "13e RDP, combats en Algérie de la Kabylie au Constantinois", published in 2010 and out of print for...
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