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The Napoleonic Wars in History
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The Napoleonic Wars in History

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Historiography and contributions to the history of war The history of the Napoleonic Wars is itself an object of historical study. Narrated and theorised by witnesses and participants from the years following the fall of the Empire and the death of Napoleon, the Napoleonic war has been studied, taught, depicted and re-enacted for two centuries, in step...
THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF HISTORY 2nd edition - 2,500...
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The names of Actium, Lepanto, Trafalgar and Jutland resonate as so many confrontations that have entered History with a capital H. The warship became a weapon in its own right, ceaselessly evolving and transforming. Yet, however devastating these countless battles may have been, they also contributed to the greatness of humanity. For if conflicts...
THE PROVENCE LANDINGS - The Second World War in Colour
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The Provence landings of 15 August 1944 were the best-organised and most successful amphibious operation of the entire war, from Operation Torch on the African coast to Overlord on the shores of Normandy. It must also be recalled that both operations — Overlord in Normandy and Dragoon in Provence — had been conceived by the Americans as two phases of a...
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE - The Second World War in Colour
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The battle that took place in the Ardennes massif between 16 December 1944 and the end of January 1945 is most often referred to as the Battle of the Ardennes. In the United States, this battle — the largest in which American soldiers participated on the Western Front — is known as The Battle of the Bulge. The Americans likened it to a "bulge" of some 80...
THE EASTERN FRONT From Operation Barbarossa to the Fall...
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The war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from 22 June 1941 to 8 May 1945 is one of superlatives in every respect. First, it unfolded on the largest land theatre of operations of the Second World War and probably in the history of humanity. This mobile front, where German and Soviet offensives alternated, moved back and forth across the western...
THE PARAS AT DIEN BIEN PHU - 20 November 1953 - 12 March... THE PARAS AT DIEN BIEN PHU - 20 November 1953 - 12 March... 2
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This book retraces with unprecedented historical rigour, day by day, the combat of the paratroopers at Diên Biên Phu, weaving together testimonies, period documents and terrain study to bring to life the hell of the battle and the heroism of the combatants. There are names that carry a particular resonance in our History. Diên Biên Phu rings in the...
The Great War Beyond the Trenches - Tannenberg,...
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The Great War elsewhere and otherwise. Must the First World War be reduced to the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Swiss border and the famous trenches? The British Western Front, the German Westfront, the French front de l'Ouest — which the Grand General Staff reduced to the " North and North-East " of France — was considered the primary theatre,...
The Tragic History of the 16. Pz.-Div. During the Battle...
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Following the first volume of La Tragique Histoire de la 16. Pz.-Div. durant la Bataille de Stalingrad Décembre 1942 - Tome 1 engaged north of Stalingrad from September to December 1942, this dying division continues fighting against the 66th Red Army until 2 February 1943, under the command of Generalleutnant Angern. Relentless, he refuses to surrender...
Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793 Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793 2
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Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793

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In the late summer of 1793, the French Republic stood on the brink of collapse. Engaged in a war against a powerful coalition of European states, it had suffered defeat after defeat since the spring, and on all its borders its territory was being invaded. On 8 September 1793, by seizing victory at Hondschoote in Flanders over their Anglo-Hanoverian...
THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC - The Second World War in Colour
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From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. From December 1941 to August 1945, the Allies — primarily the Americans — and the Japanese clashed in a war whose principal characteristic was that it unfolded across the largest ocean expanse on the planet: the Pacific Ocean. More than 8,000 km separate Tokyo from San Francisco. And while the base at Pearl Harbor, in the...
NAPOLEON'S GREATEST BATTLES
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NAPOLEON'S GREATEST BATTLES

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A work for understanding the strategies of the Napoleonic battles. On 18 May 1804, the Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French. A military genius and exceptional statesman, Napoleon distinguished himself through his campaigns and his great historic battles. More than a mere instrument of conquest, the Grande Armée represented the...
THE BATTLES OF THE ARDENNES - 1870, 1914, 1940. The... THE BATTLES OF THE ARDENNES - 1870, 1914, 1940. The... 2
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On the eve of the three great European conflicts of 1870, 1914, and 1940, the French army enjoyed an uncontested reputation for excellence. The geopolitical context, the play of alliances, the motivations and intentions of the German adversary were certainly very different from one era to the next; yet France's military power was taken very seriously...
The Other Landing - War Correspondents The Other Landing - War Correspondents 2
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At the heart of the summer 1944 fighting On 6 June 1944, the Allied Armada sweeping through the skies and onto the beaches of Normandy brought with it some of the most celebrated war correspondents, including photographer Robert Capa, writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway, and later Cornelius Ryan, author of The Longest Day. Women, though barred from...
Liberating France, Invading Germany - The French Army at...
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As France prepares to celebrate in 2025 the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this book recounts the final months of the conflict through the eyes of French Army photographers. Following the landings of summer 1944 and the liberation of Paris, the two armies from the west and the south joined forces in eastern France. This marked the...
AFRIKAKORPS - The 21st Panzer Division From Libya to Tunisia AFRIKAKORPS - The 21st Panzer Division From Libya to Tunisia 2
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Originally designated the 5. leichte Division (motorisierte), it was sent to Libya in early February 1941 to support the hard-pressed Italian forces facing the British Empire. Its intervention halted the advance of British troops. It subsequently grew in strength to become the 21. Panzer-Division. It took part in every engagement fought in Africa: El...
EN TUER! THE 501ST RCC IN COMBAT 1918–1945
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When asked about the 501e RCC, General Leclerc replied: "The 501st has never let me down." This illustrates the close ties that existed between the 2e DB and the "501st" — the only armoured regiment of Free France and Companion of the Liberation. Its participation in the liberation of France is not the regiment's only distinguishing feature. Established...
Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour 2
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Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour

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OUT OF PRINT Following a first volume (Life & Death on the Eastern Front) translated into French by Caraktère, Anthony Tucker-Jones returns with a second book of colour photographs, this time focusing on Rommel's Afrika Korps. The campaign waged by Axis forces in North Africa was seen by Berlin as an exceptional opportunity to showcase Rommel's successes...
The Fall of Dien Bien Phu
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The Fall of Dien Bien Phu

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« Military authorities [believed] that Communist troops would be incapable of taking Dien Bien Phu. Giap's soldiers came and it was a horror, with a tragic end beneath shellfire and torrential rain. The men waded through mud, blood, urine, excrement, rats and pestilential odours. The wounded were operated on in the midst of this charnel house, with no...
PANZERS BERLIN 1945 - SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 /...
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Histories of SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 « Hermann von Salza » and schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503 This reference work recounts in detail the histories of the SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 « Hermann von Salza » and the schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503 from their formation in mid-1943 to the final battles in Berlin in May 1945. The SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 was...
BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!
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BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!

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Memoirs of the Battle of Berlin in May 1945 by Georg Diers (Panzerkommandant Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Oskar Schäfer (Panzerkommandant and panzer officer on Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Henri Fenet (Waffen-Hauptsturmführer, SS-Grenadier-Regiment 57 of the 33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS « Charlemagne »). In the « TEMOIGNAGES POUR L'HISTOIRE »...
The Atlantic Pockets and Dunkirk. 1944–1945
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Forgotten battles and forgotten acts of heroism. The liberation of France cannot be reduced to the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. Far from the main front, the war continued until May 1945 around German redoubts strung along the French Atlantic coastline, from the Gironde estuary to Dunkirk. These redoubts, described as … Forgotten battles...
German Fortresses in Liberated France. An Illustrated...
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Through previously unpublished photographs, this illustrated essay sheds light on a little-known episode of the Second World War. Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Royan, the Pointe de Grave, Dunkirk. While Allied troops, having landed in Normandy, pushed eastward, these Atlantic and North Sea ports remained occupied by the Germans… Through previously...
JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... 2
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Second volume of the exceptional study on the events and fighting that took place in the Côte-d'Or during June 1940. These two books will take you day by day through the incredible and terrible history of the Côte-d'Or in 1940: the history of war, fire and blood. In this context of total chaos, fleeing the fighting, on the roads of the exodus, tens of...
JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... JUNE 1940, ON THE ROADS OF CÔTE-D'OR, FROM THE DÉBÂCLE TO... 2
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An exceptional study to be published in two volumes on the events that took place in the Côte-d'Or in May 1940. This book will take you day by day through the incredible and terrible history of the Côte-d'Or in 1940: the history of war, fire and chaos. Fleeing the fighting, on the roads of the exodus, tens of thousands of civilians crossed the region. For...
Set Europe Ablaze! - British Special Units and Commandos
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Available June 16, 2025 The Second World War was the true laboratory for what we today call "special forces". While all the belligerents raised commando, sabotage or guerrilla units, it was the British who created the greatest number and often the most original. Indeed, His Majesty's Army has always displayed an innate talent for bringing together...
The 2nd U.S. Armored Division in the Eure – 20–25 August... The 2nd U.S. Armored Division in the Eure – 20–25 August... 2
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Objectives: Breteuil, Verneuil, Damville, Conches, Le Neubourg, Iville, Amfreville, Thuit-Signol The end of the Battle of Normandy. When the 2nd U.S. Armored Division arrives in the Eure, it spells the end for the remnants of the German divisions caught in its path, in full retreat from the Falaise-Chambois pocket. This great American formation is one of...
THE GREEN DEVILS JUMP ON MONTEROTONDO - 9–10 September 1943 THE GREEN DEVILS JUMP ON MONTEROTONDO - 9–10 September 1943 2
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Summer 1943, Rome an open city, Italy prepares to switch sides and installs its army headquarters at Monterotondo, some twenty kilometres from the capital. From late July, the German command takes measures to counter the threat. Italy proclaims the armistice on 8 September; under the command of Major Gericke, 650 German paratroopers of II./FJR 6 jump on...
BRESLAU - An Impregnable Fortress February - May 1945 BRESLAU - An Impregnable Fortress February - May 1945 2
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February 1945: the Red Army surges across the Polish plains and into eastern Germany, overwhelming German armies struggling to contain it — objective: the Oder valley, to reach Berlin but also Breslau, capital of Silesia. This region had been founded by German settlers as early as the 12th century. Until now spared by the war, this German province was...
LA VIGIE - War Memoirs of a Rear Gunner in the Pathfinders
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The story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small plexiglass bubble of the rear turret of a Lancaster. Originally a member of 626 Squadron, then of 156 Pathfinder Squadron, Ron Smith flew 65 operations, which he recorded with the intensity born of his isolation at the rear of that metal giant. The book describes in fascinating detail the...
Erwin Rommel. The most famous general of the Third Reich. Erwin Rommel. The most famous general of the Third Reich. 2
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Among all the generals of the Third Reich, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is unquestionably the best known, the one whose prestige stands highest. The British, whom he faced in North Africa and in Normandy, were his principal adversaries and those who contributed most to his reputation as a great soldier, a consummate tactician and a chivalrous warrior. They...
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