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MAQUISARDS AND PARTISANS 1943-1944 MILITARIA GUIDE N°12 MAQUISARDS AND PARTISANS 1943-1944 MILITARIA GUIDE N°12 2
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MAQUISARDS AND PARTISANS 1943-1944 MILITARIA GUIDE N°12

L20180092
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The silhouette of the Resistance fighters seems frozen, as in a romanticised image, but the reality is quite different. The author, Simon Deleyrolle, with more than 25 reconstructed figures and using authentic pieces, recreates the specific appearance of the maquisards region by region. The Allied personnel who were parachuted in to train the Forces of...
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THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE THIRD REICH - PLANS AND 3D MODELS THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE THIRD REICH - PLANS AND 3D MODELS 2
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THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE THIRD REICH - PLANS AND 3D MODELS

L20180083
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With Hitler in power, he renounced the Treaty of Versailles, including its restrictions on the construction of fortifications. This is how the major fortification programmes along the borders of the Reich began. From 1935, several types of modern fortifications were defined, and by 1937, 26 fortified lines had been erected facing France, Czechoslovakia...
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The French Expeditionary Corps in Italy, 1943-1944
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The French Expeditionary Corps in Italy, 1943-1944

C9782913903937
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In July 1944, the soldiers of the French Expeditionary Force in Italy erased the effects of their 1940 defeat. Earning the respect of the Americans, they battered the German defenses — which until then had not been broken — in an extraordinary mountain battle around the Garigliano. They pushed back the German lines, opening the road to Rome for the...
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Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017 Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017 2
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Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017

L20180072
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February 1976: the gendarmerie deployed to free hostages in Djibouti with the Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), created by Lieutenant Christian Prouteau. Its sister unit, the Escadron Parachutiste d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (EPIGN), subsequently developed expertise in the protection of diplomats in war zones.
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THE GUNS OF VICTORY 1914 - 1918. VOLUME 2 THE GUNS OF VICTORY 1914 - 1918. VOLUME 2 2
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THE GUNS OF VICTORY 1914–1918. VOLUME 2

L20170162
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With the new and monstrous form taken by the war that began "with a flower in the rifle barrel" on 2 August 1914, both sides developed over four years a formidable artillery of very large calibre.
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LES DRAGONS 1669-1749 - TOME 1 : O&S N°24
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THE DRAGOONS 1669–1749 – VOLUME 1: O&S No. 24

L20170160
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According to Father Daniel, it was under the reign of Henri II that the dragoon corps found its origins, with the mounted arquebusiers established in 1554.
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