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13th DEMI-BRIGADE OF THE FOREIGN LEGION – The Magnificent...
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13th DEMI-BRIGADE OF THE FOREIGN LEGION – The Magnificent Phalanx: from Free France to...

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The 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion. The "13th". A legend. The regiment of all victories — those of Narvik and Free France, from Bir Hakeim to Colmar. Then came Indochina and Algeria. The regiment was twenty years old, twenty years of war. And then Djibouti: a patch of "French" soil on the Horn of Africa, with its train of all-round...
LETTERS TO ELISE - A History of the Franco-Prussian War...
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LETTERS TO ELISE - A History of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 Through the...

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Through nearly 250 previously unpublished letters, discover for the first time the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 through the eyes of Prussian soldiers: from the entry into the war to the repatriation of troops to Germany, through the first battles in Alsace and Lorraine, the fighting against the Army of the Loire, the siege of Paris, and the Commune —...
GLIÈRES 1944 – History of the Fighting in February and March 1944
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GLIÈRES 1944 – History of the Fighting of February and March 1944

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Glières 1944. More than 60 years ago, the Battle of Glières was a "great and magnificent adventure" (Malraux) that shed the blood of more than a hundred Resistance fighters from Haute-Savoie. This episode, a symbol of Resistance to the Nazi occupation and to the Vichy Order Maintenance Forces (Milice and GMR), had never previously been examined from a...
NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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THE NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR

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Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt… the history of the Hundred Years' War as it is taught is punctuated solely by great land battles, chevauchées across France, and sieges of towns and fortresses. Reading these accounts, one would never imagine that this long conflict was also a naval war — that squadrons clashed at sea, that numerous merchant vessels were sunk...
ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated at Saint-Martin-de-Ré
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ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated before Saint-Martin-de-Ré

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What cyclist riding through the salt marshes around Loix, or what summer visitor swimming at the Pointe des Sablanceaux, suspects that these peaceful places witnessed bloody clashes during an attempted conquest of the Île de Ré in 1627? That year, in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, the kingdom of Louis XIII was attempting to recover some semblance...
MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6–7 July 1794 The French Victory at Waterloo
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MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6–7 July 1794 – The French Victory at Waterloo

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While everyone knows the Battle of Waterloo, or Mont-Saint-Jean, in 1815, few people know that this site had already seen French and Coalition armies clash in July 1794. That year, having won a success — all in all limited — at the Battle of Fleurus, the French Army of Sambre-et-Meuse under General Jourdan continued the fight to prevent the forces of the...
AFGHANISTAN 2011–2012 The Lafayette Brigade V in Kapisa
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AFGHANISTAN 2011–2012 The Lafayette Brigade V in Kapisa

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In 2010, the 1st Mechanised Brigade of Châlons-en-Champagne stood up Task Force La Fayette V, designated to serve the following year in Afghanistan, a state plunged for four decades into a particularly deadly conflict. It was in the majestic but extremely dangerous setting of that distant country that these men carried out their duty as soldiers with...
LES BLANCS-SABLONS LE CONQUET 25 April 1513 – The Franco-Breton Navy Repels the Royal Navy
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LES BLANCS-SABLONS LE CONQUET 25 April 1513 – The Franco-Breton Navy Repels the Royal Navy

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Every summer, the Blancs-Sablons beach at Le Conquet draws thousands of tourists in search of fresh air and invigorating bathing. How many know that five centuries ago, a fierce naval battle was fought off that beach, between English sailors and French and Breton sailors? And that the reddened waters of the Iroise Sea washed dozens of corpses onto the...
SANDWICH 24 August 1217 – England Escapes French Domination
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SANDWICH 24 August 1217 – England Escapes French Domination

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In 1217, Prince Louis of France (the future Louis VIII, son of Philip II Augustus and father of Saint Louis) was waging war in England in the hope of seizing the crown. The convoy bringing him vital reinforcements was intercepted at sea, somewhere between Dover, Sandwich and South Foreland, and never reached the English coast. This naval battle is...
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BRIGNAIS 6 April 1362 – The Tard-Venus at the Gates of Lyon
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BRIGNAIS 6 April 1362 – The Tard-Venus at the Gates of Lyon

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Southwest of Lyon, April 1362. Led by the Constable of France, Jacques de Bourbon, the French army marches on the small town of Brignais, occupied by bands of routiers. These soldiers, idle since the signing of the Treaty of Brétigny two years earlier, roam the roads and spread terror throughout the southern provinces of the kingdom of France. Although...
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LOBBES 23 August 1914 – The Battle of Heuleu as Told by Its Witnesses
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LOBBES 23 August 1914 – The Battle of Heuleu by Its Witnesses

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On 31 July 1914, at five o'clock in the morning, notary Duquenne, burgomaster of Lobbes, was ordered to post the military mobilisation notice in his commune. Like the entire population of the neighbouring villages of the Haute-Sambre, he would witness requisitions, the deployment of Red Cross units and the return of expatriates from the belligerent...
WISSEMBOURG 4 August 1870 – Alsace Violated
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WISSEMBOURG 4 August 1870 – Alsace Violated

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On the morning of 4 August 1870, the 2nd division of General Abel Douay was positioned on the heights of Wissembourg, a few hundred metres from the enemy frontier. On the other side, several Prussian and Bavarian corps were advancing without having been detected by the French cavalry reconnaissance. An unequal battle was engaged in and around the town, in...
LIGNY 16 June 1815 – The Emperor's Last Victory
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LIGNY 16 June 1815 – The Emperor's Last Victory

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15 June 1815. After the capture of Charleroi, the Emperor has just entrusted command of his left wing to Marshal Ney, with the mission of advancing towards Brussels in order to cut definitively the communications between the Anglo-Dutch Allies and the Prussians. He himself takes command of the right column. To slow the French advance and allow their own...
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QUATRE-BRAS 16 June 1815 – The Second Prelude to Waterloo
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QUATRE-BRAS 16 June 1815 – The Second Prelude to Waterloo

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June 1815. It is nearly three months since the Emperor returned to Paris. Outlawed by the nations, he knows that a new invasion of France is imminent; the only chance of preventing it lies in striking the Prussian and Anglo-Dutch concentrations. To achieve this, they must be prevented from joining forces and defeated separately. On 15 June, the imperial...
HELIOPOLIS 20 March 1800 – Kléber and the Last Victory of the Army of the Orient
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HELIOPOLIS 20 March 1800 – Kléber and the Last Victory of the Army of the Orient

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When Bonaparte left Egypt, he handed command to Kléber. The latter attempted to negotiate with the British and the Ottomans the return of the Army of the Orient to France, but the massacre of the garrison at El-Arish brought the negotiations to an end. On 20 March 1800, the French soldiers confronted and defeated the Ottoman army of Youssef Pasha amid the...
HONDSCHOOTE September 1793 – The First Victory of the Gendarmerie
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HONDSCHOOTE September 1793 – The First Victory of the Gendarmerie

L20200092
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September 1793. The Homeland is in grave danger, facing a Europe outraged by the execution of King Louis XVI. After the defeat of Neerwinden in March, the armies of the Republic must recover their morale and find the road to victory in order to confront the Anglo-Austro-Prussian coalition ranged against them. With remarkable energy, Lazare Carnot...
VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Aid of France
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VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Rescue of France

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August 1424. After an hour of fierce fighting, twelve thousand combatants lay strewn across the plain a few hundred metres from the small Norman town. The Lombard-Hispanic-Scots-French army, commanded by Archibald Douglas, newly created Duke of Touraine and in the service of Charles VII, had just suffered a terrible reverse at the hands of the English...
THE CORRIDOR OF DEATH – Mortain Falaise Argentan 1944
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THE CORRIDOR OF DEATH – Mortain Falaise Argentan 1944

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The «corridor of death» is the bottleneck of the famous Falaise-Argentan pocket where the German combat forces in Normandy were crushed by Allied power. The Germans left several thousand dead and 40,000 prisoners in the pocket after approximately half of them managed to break through. This volume recounts that hell. The Battle of Mortain with sensational...
THE VIOLENCE OF ACTION
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THE VIOLENCE OF ACTION

L20200182
€19.91
Afghanistan, 2009. U.S. Army Sergeant Clinton Romesha and his men begin dismantling Combat Outpost Keating — isolated, barely accessible, difficult to defend and the target of incessant attacks. On 3 October, 300 heavily armed Taliban launch an assault on the outpost, defended by fifty lightly entrenched soldiers. The fighting lasts nearly fourteen hours.
FIRE SUPPORT IN AFGHANISTAN
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FIRE SUPPORT IN AFGHANISTAN

L20200169
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A JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controller) sergeant gives a first-hand account of the daily reality faced in Afghanistan by this British Army elite. Deployed on the ground in direct contact with the enemy, these men direct air strikes from the battlefield, enabling pilots to engage the enemy with precision and avoid friendly fire.
FROM ONE WAR TO ANOTHER
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FROM ONE WAR TO THE NEXT

L20200165
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The author, a sniper and sergeant in the 2e RIMa, recounts his ten years of service in the French Army, describing the ordeals endured by a regiment whose several men fell in the service of France.
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

L20200161
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February 1945, Iwo Jima in the Pacific. Six American soldiers raise their flag atop Mount Suribachi. The photograph of this event, which marked American society forever, is the starting point of the author's account — the son of one of those men — of one of the most dramatic human epics of the Second World War. Adapted for the screen by Clint Eastwood in...
THE MISSION, THE MEN AND ME
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THE MISSION, THE MEN AND ME

L20200160
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A senior Delta Force officer, the author recounts the involvement of this elite American unit in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda, as well as other missions in which he participated. He highlights operational shortcomings and sets out his command principles, founded on mutual understanding between those who give and those who receive orders.
FALLUJAH
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FALLUJAH

L20200157
€19.91
During the night of 6 to 7 November 2004, American and Iraqi forces launched their assault on the Sunni Baathist stronghold of Fallujah, a city located some sixty kilometres from Baghdad. Inside the city, only fighters remained. The men of Staff Sergeant Bellavia's infantry section moved in to take the ground. The fighting would last three weeks. He...
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