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1939-1945. The World War of Secret Services
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1939-1945. The World War of Secret Services

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The years 1939-1945 saw not only the great military confrontations that are well known, but also the shadow battles that remain largely unknown. Those that this groundbreaking book reveals to us in its vivid pages lead us from discovery to discovery, from the most unexpected to the most astonishing. How Hitler neglected his spies, while the French...
The Kamikazes (1944-1945)
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The Kamikazes (1944-1945)

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"Mother, your son is about to carry out an attack [...] but rather than as your son, it is as a son of the homeland that I shall consider myself then." In October 1944, with Japan's war already lost since the previous year, the tokubetsu-kōgeki-tai, or "special attack corps," were formed: the pilots who made them up were trained to dive their aircraft,...
Constantinople, 1453 - "The City Has Fallen!"
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Constantinople, 1453 - "The City Has Fallen!"

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On 29 May 1453 — a Tuesday, the day of the god of War — Constantinople, the second Rome, the millennial capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell into the hands of the Turks. Nearly 7,000 men had resisted for fifty-five days against more than 100,000. Sacked, "the City" was depopulated and 50,000 slaves were taken into the Ottoman world. Emperor Constantine...
1929–1935 - The Crisis
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1929–1935 - The Crisis

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Through the profound destabilisation it caused, the crisis of 1929 reshuffled the cards of history. The post-war period was thought to be over, inflation finally tamed, the thorny question of reparations settled by the Young Plan, peace definitively guaranteed by the League of Nations and the Briand-Kellogg Pact. And yet within a few years all these fine...
Female Collaborators, 1940–1945 - A History of the Women...
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Female Collaborators, 1940–1945 - A History of the Women Who Supported the Vichy Regime...

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"Female collaborators": the mere mention of the word calls to mind images of the thousands of French women crushed by the savage purges and publicly shorn at the Liberation for having "sinned" with the enemy. Sometimes, too, one recalls other events that marked the years of Occupation — such as the notorious trip to Germany undertaken by French actresses...
The D-Day Landings - Truths and Legends
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The D-Day Landings - Truths and Legends

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The truth behind "The Longest Day". The sky is leaden and the swell in the Channel grows ever more violent. Major Pluskat's bunkers are dripping with damp. Field Marshal Rommel has left his headquarters to celebrate his wife's birthday. The Germans are convinced that the Allies will not land… These scenes, kept alive by countless screenings of The Longest...
Diên Biên Phu - The Lessons of a Defeat
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Diên Biên Phu - The Lessons of a Defeat

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The long ordeal of the French Expeditionary Corps, from Diên Biên Phu to its departure from Indochina. 7 May 1954. The fall of Diên Biên Phu. The Viet Minh's spectacular victory after fifty-six days of fighting seals France's departure from a part of the world where it had been present for more than a century. Seventy years on, Pierre Servent does not...
The British Empire at War - 1857-1947
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The British Empire at War - 1857-1947

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June 1897. England celebrates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The highlight of the festivities takes the form of a memorable military parade in London, reminding the British that their country stands at the head of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Its representatives are all there, dressed for the occasion in their finest regalia: the...
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America at War - 1933-1946 America at War - 1933-1946 2
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America at War - 1933-1946

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The giant awakens: the United States in the Second World War. The United States, although emerging strengthened from the First World War, subsequently turned inward, allowing Asia and Europe to go up in flames one after the other. One might therefore assume that the war only truly entered the thoughts and daily lives of Americans from 7 December 1941, the...
HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal...
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HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal Secretary

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Hitler's best-known secretary to date is Traudi Junge, owing to her memoirs which inspired the film Der Untergang (Downfall) about the dictator's final days. But she did not enter his service until January 1943, whereas Christa Schroeder had been there since 1933 and would remain until 20 April 1945. For twelve years, she accompanied her "chief" on all...
THE RED ARMY - Innovator, Liberator, Predator
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THE RED ARMY - Innovator, Liberator, Predator

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History of the Red Army… in blood It was born in 1918 amid the pain and urgency of the worst of civil wars; it was cherished by and complicit with the worst of regimes — Stalin's — yet also its victim, seeing its best commanders tortured and shot; it was able to renew military thinking and gave itself the greatest means ever assembled. And yet, the Red...
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GETTYSBURG 1863
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GETTYSBURG 1863

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During the first three days of July 1863, 160,000 Confederates and Union soldiers fought a gigantic battle in a small corner of the south-eastern Pennsylvania countryside, at Gettysburg. The bloodiest battle in all of North American history. In the eyes of contemporaries, the stakes were enormous: to determine the future — united or fractured — of the...
OKINAWA 1945
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OKINAWA 1945

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The last great battle of the Second World War. " Typhoon of Steel ". That is the name by which the Battle of Okinawa is known. The deluge of fire that American forces rained down on the Japanese defenders of the island between April and June 1945 does indeed seem to justify the epithet. For the United States, it was a matter of seizing a stepping-stone...
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JOSEPH DARNAND - From Glory to Disgrace
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JOSEPH DARNAND - From Glory to Disgrace

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The biography of a Great War hero who became a cardinal figure of the Collaboration. As the commemorations of the years 1944-1945 approach, how can we forget that certain "heroes" of the Great War and the fighting of May-June 1940 sank into the worst compromises? Among all the works devoted to the Second World War, the Resistance and the Occupation,...
THE RUSSIAN GENERALS AGAINST NAPOLEON
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THE RUSSIAN GENERALS AGAINST NAPOLEON

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The Pride of the Russian Army. Among the adversaries of the Napoleonic army, the Tsar's soldiers proved the most tenacious. Was it not said at the time: " It is not enough to kill a Russian — you must also push him to make him fall "? These men of iron were commanded by a plethora of brave and talented generals, some of whom had nothing to envy in...
History of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1948–1961 –...
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History of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1948–1961 – From the Rice Fields of...

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The rise and fall of an elite regiment caught in the turmoil of the decolonisation wars. The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment, which entered posterity for having been the spearhead of the " generals' revolt " in Algiers that prompted its dissolution by General de Gaulle on 30 April 1961, occupies a singular place in the history of the French Foreign Legion....
THE BEAR AND THE FOX - An Immediate History of the War in...
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THE BEAR AND THE FOX - An Immediate History of the War in Ukraine

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Since February 2022, each of us has been bombarded with information about the war in Ukraine — fragmented, piecemeal, often contradictory information, in which it is impossible to tell truth from falsehood. Since its outbreak, Michel Goya and Jean Lopez have focused on this conflict — the former as a military commentator for a rolling news channel, the...
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FINLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1938–1948
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FINLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1938–1948

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Between Stalin and Hitler: an unjustly overlooked and highly instructive history. This work deals with the history of Finland during the Second World War, from the first crises of 1938 to the signing in 1948 of a bilateral treaty with Moscow. For the country, the winter of 1939–1940 began badly: attacked in late November by the USSR, it seemed on the...
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Waging War – Conversations on the Operational Art
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Waging War – Conversations on the Operational Art

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A two-voice reflection on war and strategy, the like of which France has not seen in a long time. Why, throughout the centuries, have generals won so many victories that did not bring an end to the conflict? Why did the blood shed serve the objectives assigned by political authority to its armies so poorly? Why, to take one example among a thousand, were...
THE ABWEHR - 1939-1945: German Secret Services in France
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THE ABWEHR - 1939-1945: German Secret Services in France

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The first comprehensive synthesis of the role played by German military intelligence in France under the Occupation. While many organisations of the Third Reich are well known — the all-powerful state militia (SS), the Nazi party's secret police (Gestapo), or its security arm (SD) — the Abwehr is less celebrated. Yet it played a crucial role during the...
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UNTIL THE FALL – Memoirs of Hitler's Butler
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UNTIL THE FALL – Memoirs of Hitler's Butler

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The last great firsthand account of Hitler in private. SS Commander Heinz Linge (1913–1980) served for ten years as Adolf Hitler's butler. This former bricklayer joined the military ranks in 1933, initially becoming a bodyguard. He gradually entered his master's inner circle, becoming one of his most loyal attendants. Here at last is the French...
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Field Marshal Model – Hitler's "Fireman"
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Field Marshal Model – Hitler's "Fireman"

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France, Ukraine, Belarus, Moscow, Kursk, Leningrad, Warsaw, Market-Garden, Aachen, the Ardennes, the Ruhr: Walter Model was present in every campaign of the Third Reich. Known for his fanatical devotion to Hitler — who had brought him into the team he assembled at the turning point of the war to replace the traditional officer corps — this hard, rough and...
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The COS – History of the French Special Forces
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The COS – History of the French Special Forces

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The Commandement des opérations spéciales (COS) was established by a decree of Defence Minister Pierre Joxe on 24 June 1992. Based in Paris, this joint headquarters is responsible for conceiving, planning and conducting military special forces operations. These missions, which fall outside the framework of conventional military action, aim to achieve...
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The French Army – Two Centuries of Commitment The French Army – Two Centuries of Commitment 2
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The French Army – Two Centuries of Commitment

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On 14 June 1830, 30,000 French soldiers landed in Algeria and set about its conquest. More than one hundred and eighty years later, the operations in Mali from 2013 to 2022 saw the deployment of a force that closely resembled the army of 1830: small in size, professional, expert in overseas operations, in counter-insurgency as well as counter-terrorism....
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