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THE NAPOLEONIC MILITARY REVOLUTION - Volume 2, The Battles
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A groundbreaking presentation of the innovations of Napoleonic warfare. Following the analysis of operational strategy in Volume I on Manoeuvres, this Volume II examines the Napoleonic battle in all its dimensions, setting out its specific characteristics in relation to the linear battles that preceded it. Drawing on a comparative study of the course of...
THE NAPOLEONIC MILITARY REVOLUTION - Volume 3, Combat
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Having analysed operational strategy and general tactics from the perspective of the conduct of operations, this third volume deals with the tactics of the individual arms, prioritising an approach grounded in the combatant's lived experience, his motivations and his daily life. It emphasises the sociological and anthropological aspects of the fighting of...
REIMS - 28 October 1359 - 18 May 1360 REIMS - 28 October 1359 - 18 May 1360 2
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Edward III's chevauchée broke before Reims, the City of Coronations. In 1359, Edward III of England held John II the Good prisoner after his crushing defeat at Poitiers (1356). France was slow to pay the enormous ransom for its sovereign. Weary of waiting, Edward decided to mount an expedition to have himself crowned King of France at Reims. The City of...
D-DAY and the Battle of Normandy - World War II in Colour
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Relive the key moments of the greatest military operation in History through colourised black-and-white photographs. "Germany first!" — such was the key phrase of the strategy adopted by the British and Americans from 1941. Admittedly, during the conflict, the Pacific front was important, but Allied high commands decided very early on to concentrate all...
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC - World War II in Colour
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The Battle of the Atlantic was, from September 1939 to May 1945, the longest battle of the entire Second World War. It was also, and remains, the least known. No ruins left by the bombing, no makeshift graves for the sailors, no visible destruction, no scars. Only the ocean. An Atlantic Ocean that was one of the major stakes of the war for both...
TANKS IN GERMANY 1944–1945
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TANKS IN GERMANY 1944–1945

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This book, following Tanks in Normandy, revisits the German Campaign from September 1944, painting a portrait of this "beginning of the end" for German forces in the West. From the Battle of Aachen to the famous capture of the Remagen bridge, through the fighting in the Hürtgen Forest and operations in the Ruhr, Franck Segrétain brilliantly covers the...
DICTIONARY OF THE ALGERIAN WAR
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DICTIONARY OF THE ALGERIAN WAR

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Sixty years after the Évian Accords, the first dictionary devoted to the Algerian War is published, written by the leading specialists of the period, both Algerian and French. Sixty years after the end of the Algerian War, the issues of memory tied to the history of this conflict have fuelled as many debates as controversies. Historical research has...
TILL THE JOB IS DONE - Letters from the Front
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Illustrated with newly colorized period photographs and battlefield relics, discover for the first time the complete correspondence of an American officer of the 4th Infantry Division, from the Norman fields to the dark Hürtgen Forest, by way of the Liberation of Paris! Poignant letters and a true story that prompt us to reflect on the ravages of war and...
13e RDP - FIGHTING IN ALGERIA FROM KABYLIA TO...
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In the wake of the 70th anniversary celebrations of the transformation of the "13" into a parachute regiment, and ahead of the 60th anniversary of its entry into airborne reconnaissance, the new expanded and updated edition of the work by Mark Bruschi "13e RDP, combats en Algérie de la Kabylie au Constantinois", published in 2010 and out of print for...
THE RED BERETS IN ALGERIA - BIGEARD BOYS AND THE SUEZ CRISIS
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A legendary unit, the 3e régiment de parachutistes coloniaux was born of the will of an exceptional commanding officer, Marcel Bigeard. A name that rings out like a battle standard, closely associated with the parachute saga in Algeria, where those soon nicknamed the "Bigeard Boys" successfully met every challenge. Among these, the Suez Crisis in the...
THE LORRAINE GROUP - From the Libyan Desert to the... THE LORRAINE GROUP - From the Libyan Desert to the... 2
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In September 1941, the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres assigned the names of occupied French provinces to their combat units. Bomber Group No. 1, just formed from the Reserve Bomber Group No. 1 (a veteran of Kufra and Abyssinia), thus took the name "Lorraine". Equipped with Bristol Blenheim aircraft, it took part in Operation Crusader in Libya against...
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles 2
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Alamo, Sidi-Brahim, Camerone, Bazeilles, Fort de Vaux, the Alcázar of Toledo, Westerplatte, Wizna, Saumur, Bir Hakeim, Les Glières, Iwo Jima, Diên Biên Phu. What do Alamo, Camerone, Iwo Jima, and Bir Hakeim have in common? The determination of the defenders who, without faltering, face an adversary vastly superior in numbers and materiel. Surrounded and...
THE STUKAS ATTACK - Battle of Britain
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The Junkers Ju 87 in the Battle of Britain The Stuka is the best-known German aircraft of the Second World War, having left an enduring impression with its angular silhouette and its near-vertical dives. This book, which focuses on Stuka operations during the Battle of Britain, corrects a widely repeated misconception: no, the Stuka did not suffer such...
THE ORNE BRIDGEHEAD - June–August 1944
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Pegasus Bridge, the capture of Ranville bridge and the fighting that followed In the night of 4 to 5 June 1944, gliders of the British 6th Airborne Division landed silently near several key points east of the Orne canal. The objective was to establish a solid front to prevent any German counter-attack towards the beaches where, a few hours later, the...
VERDUN 1916
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VERDUN 1916

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Verdun — The most iconic battle of the First World War, today a symbol of peace for humanity. In the ecosystem of Great War battles, Verdun stands as an exception — but not because of the casualties, the subject of every fantasy, nor because of the number of shells fired, the violence, the new tactics and a thousand other superlatives: this confrontation...
THE BATTLE OF CHÂTEAUDUN - 18 October 1870
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August–September 1870: as the French army is in full retreat and regular troops are attempting to reorganise, National Guardsmen and francs-tireurs spring up everywhere, inflicting losses on the enemy — admittedly modest, but sufficient for the German high command to decide to eradicate them by intimidating, if necessary, the civilian populations...
1940 Reporter on Three Fronts 1940 Reporter on Three Fronts 2
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1940 Reporter on Three Fronts

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Three operations with a Luftwaffe radio reporter: Norway, France, and over England With this album, we follow three operations alongside a Luftwaffe radio reporter, through some forty dynamic and compelling reports, accompanied by around fifty photographs directly related to these accounts. Added to these is an introductory chapter on the first airborne...
JAPAN 1944–1945 The Strategic Bombing Campaign by General...
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A strategic bombing campaign ravaged Japan as it continued to fight tenaciously despite the inexorable American advance. In 1944, the US Army Air Force deployed an ultramodern bomber on the Pacific theater — the most costly weapons system of the war: the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. General Curtis LeMay initiated radical and devastating tactics that ruined...
THE 10 GREATEST TANK BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR THE 10 GREATEST TANK BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR 2
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Confined primarily to an auxiliary support role during the interwar period, the tank revealed itself in the course of the Second World War to be a weapon of considerable tactical flexibility. Employed in turn as an instrument of breakthrough, exploitation, accompaniment, counter-attack, and even as a mobile artillery platform, it became, through the...
Men at War: Chronicles of '70 – Unpublished Testimonies...
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From the regimental postman to the priest, from the Pontifical Zouave to the sailor, discover eight testimonies from the Franco-Prussian War. These texts, published here for the first time, will bring this first modern war to life at ground level: the sieges, the social and political upheavals that led to the episode of the Commune and the collapse of the...
SCHWERE SS-PANZER-ABTEILUNG 102 - TIGER OF THE 102 SCHWERE SS-PANZER-ABTEILUNG 102 - TIGER OF THE 102 2
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OUT OF STOCK This highly detailed work restores the complete history of the schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 102 during the Battle of Normandy. The operations of this heavy tank battalion are far less well known than those of the schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 or the schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 during the fighting of the summer of 1944. From the beginning of...
ATLAS OF WARS - The Early Modern Period: 16th, 17th and...
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Marignano, Lepanto, Vauban, Peter the Great, Bonaparte... These names resonate throughout the history of modern warfare and have endured across the ages: the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries remain the great centuries of innovation in the art of war. Modern warfare swept across land and sea. No part of the globe was spared. The Europeans, in their colonial...
FIGHTING FOR UKRAINE - 10 Soldiers Speak
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A writer, a student, businessmen, a lawyer, a female politician — there are currently 57,000 women fighters serving in the Ukrainian army — as well as a major Latvian farmer, a 61-year-old Georgian and even Russians — among them a former FSB officer. All recount their experience in this war of another century in terms of its violence and intensity. All...
DIXMUDE - 19 October – 10 November 1914 - Sailors and... DIXMUDE - 19 October – 10 November 1914 - Sailors and... 2
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On 19 October, the French Navy commemorates the day of the naval fusiliers. This date corresponds roughly to the start of the Battle of Dixmude, which raged from mid-October (the first skirmishes took place on the 16th) to 10 November 1914. The naval fusiliers brigade distinguished itself during these particularly bloody engagements. They thus became the...
THE CAT ON THE DUNE - Field Journal and Operations of a... THE CAT ON THE DUNE - Field Journal and Operations of a... 2
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Preface by Michel GOYA The author donates his royalties to Terre-Fraternité, an association supporting the wounded and bereaved families of the French Army. The fruit of ten years' experience in operations conducted by France in the Sahelo-Saharan strip, this work recounts the experience of a senior officer engaged in operations. Far from being merely a...
OFFENSIVE IN CRIMEA – Operation "Trappenjagd" 8–19 May 1942 OFFENSIVE IN CRIMEA – Operation "Trappenjagd" 8–19 May 1942 2
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Operation "Trappenjagd" 8 to 19 May 1942 The whole story began with a tunic found in France in 2017 — a tunic that should never have been there! …and yet! More than 300 hours of research were needed to understand its presence in that country, identify its owner, his unit, and the circumstances of his death on 8 May 1942 in Crimea. The author studied more...
THE BIG RED ONE FACING THE 2.PZ.-DIV – Normandy June 1944
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After landing on 6 June 1944 at Omaha Beach, the GIs of the 1st Infantry Division — nicknamed the Big Red One — must press on fighting against the 352.Inf.Div. To do so, they go three days and three nights without sleep. Shortly afterwards, they receive orders to take Caumont-l'Éventé. For these GIs, it is the next ordeal in establishing the Omaha Beach...
III.PANZER-KORPS — The Third SS Germanic Volunteer... III.PANZER-KORPS — The Third SS Germanic Volunteer... 2
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In the spring of 1940, when Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, then the Netherlands and Belgium, the Waffen-SS opened recruiting offices there, with mixed — if not mediocre — results. But when the Third Reich launched its war against the Soviet Union, the "crusade against Bolshevism" rekindled enthusiasm for a recruitment drive that had stagnated. Thus,...
1800 - From Marengo to Hohenlinden, the Final Year of a... 1800 - From Marengo to Hohenlinden, the Final Year of a... 2
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A century of blood comes to a close. Begun with the War of the Spanish Succession under the reign of an ageing Louis XIV, it ends with the American War of Independence and those of the early years of the Revolution. France now had at its head a "triumvirate." All, save Bonaparte, were new men who had played no part in the political manoeuvres of the...
THE TENTH AIR FORCE in World War II: Strategy, Command,... THE TENTH AIR FORCE in World War II: Strategy, Command,... 2
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During World War II, flying B-24 Liberator bombers on missions deep into Burma, B-25 Mitchell bombers attacking Japanese lines of communications, and P-40 Warhawks, P-47 Thunderbolts, and P-51 Mustangs flying close support for General Joseph Stilwells Chinese and American forces in northern Burma, the Tenth Air Force worked closely with the squadrons of...
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