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KHARKOV 1942
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KHARKOV 1942

L20220184
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Champs de Bataille collection Vol. 1 "What happened in May 1942 in the steppe around Kharkov, in Ukraine? The Red Army launched an offensive that ended in enormous disaster. The Germans were once again the stronger force! But lessons would be learned, and this would prove to be the last great disaster for Stalin's troops. The work Kharkov 1942 describes,...
LORETTO, NOTRE-DAME-DE-LORETTE SEEN FROM THE GERMAN SIDE
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The battle of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette seen from the German side The terrible battle of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette seen from the German side. For the Germans as for the French, the fighting there reached an intensity rarely seen elsewhere on the front. It can be compared to that of Les Éparges, in the heights of the Meuse. The recapture of the hill, lost as early...
1915, Dardanelles – Kemal vs Churchill
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In 1915, by taking the war to the Dardanelles, Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, sought to break the deadlock of trench warfare in France and Belgium. To that end, he succeeded in convincing the British government and its allies to attempt a southern strike against the Ottoman Empire. The attack was to be carried out by the Allied navy, which...
From Leningrad to Courland 1941-1945
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Barbarossa - The fighting of Heeresgruppe Nord in the northern Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 Operation Barbarossa and the war in the Soviet Union constitute the main front of World War II, the one on which the outcome of the war was decided. While accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin are countless, a narrative of the events...
TORPEDO LOS! U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic Volume...
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From December 1941, the German submarine arm saw its operational area in the Atlantic extend all the way to the American coastline. The convoy war took on a new scale, soon spreading to engulf the Arctic and the Indian Ocean as well. In the spring of 1943, American technological innovation and industrial might, combined with the British decryption of the...
D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants 2
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In 1937, Colonel de Gaulle moved from theory to practice. The man behind the "paper tank" — who in 1934 had written a veritable manifesto in favour of the armoured corps, Vers l'armée de métier, his most celebrated work — spent two years in Metz commanding a tank regiment, the 507e RCC. There, equipped with the powerful 20-tonne D 2 tanks built by...
THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES, 1939-1940 THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES, 1939-1940 2
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The crucial question of armoured divisions, championed by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934 with his crusade for a professional army, had obscured from the general public a major element in the development of the French army during the rearmament period: yes, France possessed, even before the war, divisions légères mécaniques (DLM) that were light in name only....
CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC 2
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On that afternoon of 16 May 1940, a group of around twenty Chars B belonging to the French Army — 32-tonne vehicles each armed with a 75 mm gun and a 47 mm gun, making them the most powerful armoured materiel in existence in the world in 1940 — approached a small town that was about to enter History: Montcornet. Since the day before yesterday, the enemy...
ANCIENT WARFARE — Forty Centuries of Armed Conflict
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The illustrated reference book on ancient warfare Ramesses II, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Attila — who does not know these great conquerors of Antiquity? How did they wage war, how did they besiege cities, how did they feed their soldiers, where did they find the iron for their weapons, the horses for their chariots and the timber for...
LES ROCHAMBELLES - AMBULANCE DRIVERS OF THE LECLERC DIVISION LES ROCHAMBELLES - AMBULANCE DRIVERS OF THE LECLERC DIVISION 2
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New paperback edition L'Unité Rochambeau, sometimes called Groupe Rochambeau, set itself apart from other women's units through an extraordinary journey, in which women — whether from the upper bourgeoisie or more working-class backgrounds — were throughout their service driven by an ardent desire to save their country, France. But this fervour was also...
The Fallschirmjäger of the Lost Cause - Normandy, June 1944 The Fallschirmjäger of the Lost Cause - Normandy, June 1944 2
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Following the two volumes dedicated to the Fallschirmjäger during the Battle of Normandy, with the support of General Meindl's daughter, Didier Lodieu returns to the subject by covering the formation and engagement of the 3. Fallschirmjäger-Division during the first half of 1944. You will discover its occupation and training in Brittany, then its...
THE DESERT EPIC, THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY (VOLUME I)
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The British 8th Army in the desert The defining, almost iconic experience of the British Army during the Second World War remains the confrontation that entered history under the name of the "Desert War." The aura of the 8th Army is unmatched among the British armies of the Second World War. Only the reputation of the 21st Army Group that landed in...
THE LAST SQUARE - Fighters of Honour and Lost Soldiers...
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The spirit of sacrifice throughout history. " Merde! The Guard dies and does not surrender ". The famous retort, attributed to General Cambronne at Waterloo, illustrates contempt for death and authentic sacrifice: that which consists in voluntarily giving one's life for a man, a cause, an ideology, or a homeland. Contrary to what one might think, such...
THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS VOL.3 -... THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS VOL.3 -... 2
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This is a very little-known subject. A Waffen-SS paratrooper battalion was formed in autumn 1943 to carry out special operations missions. The author, a Luftwaffe paratrooper captain (West Germany) holding German, French, and US jump qualifications, who served in the 1960s before becoming a historian, presents a detailed history in three volumes of nearly...
PANZER KOMMANDEUR - At the heart of the Panzertruppen,...
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Panzer Kommandeur - The war memoirs of Hans von Luck, an officer who served in the most prestigious Panzer-Divisionen from 1939 to 1945, at last accessible in French! Having fought on every front — from the plains of northern France in 1940, through Russia in 1941, Libya and Egypt in 1942, Normandy and Alsace in 1944, and finally Germany in 1945 — von...
THE MOROCCAN GOUMS 1941–1945 THE MOROCCAN GOUMS 1941–1945 2
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THE MOROCCAN GOUMS 1941–1945

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« You may have already heard of the Moroccan goums. The press, French and Anglo-Saxon alike, ever hungry for the picturesque, often depicted them during the war, sometimes with an exaggeration bordering on the extravagant. Since your arrival in Morocco you may have already noticed French non-commissioned officers proudly wearing the sky-blue kepi stamped...
ALPS 1940, THE UNDEFEATED ARMY ALPS 1940, THE UNDEFEATED ARMY 2
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ALPS 1940, THE UNDEFEATED ARMY

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Alps 1940, the undefeated army. Résistance Libération collection, Stéphane Lavit, Jérôme Croyet. This book does not aim to retell the official history of the Armée des Alpes. Nor is it an exhaustive compilation; the idea is to provide a sense and a general understanding of what these troops were in 1939 and 1940, particularly in the key sector of the...
THE 193RD GLIDER INFANTRY REGIMENT IN THE ARDENNES -... THE 193RD GLIDER INFANTRY REGIMENT IN THE ARDENNES -... 2
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The 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment in the Ardennes. Résistance Libération collection, Richard Frognier. This book is the result of nearly twenty years of work. Drawing on research in official archives and interviews with veterans, Richard Frognier retraces the forgotten story of ordinary young men swept up in the turmoil of the greatest conflict humanity...
ROYAL ETRANGER - 1921-2021 - A Century of History of the...
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This large-format book traces a century of history of the 1er REC (Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie), a well-known unit of the French Foreign Legion. 100 years of heroism: from the first engagements in the Levant to the final clashes in the Sahel. 100 years of sacrifice: from the rice paddies of Indochina to the mountains of Afghanistan. 100 years of...
TANKS IN NORMANDY – Summer 1944, the Clash
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Prepared in the utmost secrecy, Operation "Overlord" is one of the most audacious offensives of the Second World War: tens of thousands of soldiers had to be ferried across the English Channel, landed on beaches defended by the Germans and the enemy had to be prevented from halting the offensive. And one particular weapon had been gaining ever-greater...
Saint-Gotthard 1664: A European Battle
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Saint-Gotthard 1664, a European Battle. The captivating story of an unjustly forgotten battle from the age of Louis XIV — the first victory over the Turks in Hungary and a remarkable example of cooperation among European armies against an aggressor.
HUNGARIAN ARMOURED FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR HUNGARIAN ARMOURED FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR 2
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The actions of the German armoured forces during the Second World War are well known to the public, largely owing to the numerous works devoted to them. Those of the armoured forces of their allied countries are, by contrast, far less well known. This volume sets out the role of the Hungarian armoured forces which, over the course of the global conflict,...
2.PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL.3 - Falaise and Retreat,... 2.PANZERDIVISION IN NORMANDY VOL.3 - Falaise and Retreat,... 2
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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...
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