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World Naval Aviation since 1945
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World Naval Aviation since 1945

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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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