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THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His... THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His... 2
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Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique 2021; Prix du Nouveau Cercle de l'Union 2022; Le Point's list of the 30 books of the year 2021. "The" biography of Mussolini. A historical and literary event. "This book is neither a biography of Mussolini in the strict sense nor a history of Italian fascism, but the first attempt — and not only in France — to try to...
S.P.Q.R. A History of Ancient Rome
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The definitive history of Rome, from its foundation to its fall, by a world-renowned specialist. How did what was once an insignificant village in central Italy become the seat of an empire dominating the Mediterranean? In this major work, Mary Beard recounts the emergence and then the fall of an unprecedented culture that shaped many of our fundamental...
INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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A revised and updated edition of this immense bestseller, in a new, even more fitting large-format coffee-table book edition. The Second World War as you have never read it before. A world first. Directed by Jean Lopez, with the collaboration of Nicolas Aubin and Vincent Bernard, and superbly presented by data designer Nicolas Guillerat, this exceptional...
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...
GAMELIN - The Tragedy of Ambition
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Gamelin, or the quintessence of military disaster. Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958) remains a figure indelibly associated with the crushing defeat of May 1940. It is worth looking beyond that commonplace and asking: how did this officer, regarded as one of the most brilliant of his generation, for whom everything had succeeded since his earliest youth and who...
The Indochina War - Dictionary The Indochina War - Dictionary 2
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The Indochina War - Dictionary

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The Indochina War in dictionary form, by the leading French and foreign specialists The historiography of the Indochina War is enriched for the first time by a dictionary encompassing the essential themes of the conflict that, between 1945 and 1954, marked the beginning of decolonisation for the French Empire. Research carried out by some fifty civilian...
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...
Par le sang versé - La Légion étrangère en Indochine
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Their war lasted fifteen years, from the banks of the Rhine or the Oder in 1940 to the basin of Diên Biên Phu in 1954. French soldiers who had broken with Vichy or heroes of the Free French, soldiers of the Wehrmacht or from the eastern marches of Europe, a generation ground down by a world conflict, they carved out an adventure as one plays a final card....
The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport (1914–1917)
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20,000 Leagues Across the Seas — The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport presents itself as a collection of letters written between August 1914 and January 1917 by the first mate of the cargo ship Pamir to his closest friend, mobilised as a gunner aboard a battleship. Through these dispatches, we follow the ship's constant movements across the most varied of...
The British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second...
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The role of the British soldier in the defeat of Nazi Germany reassessed and given its rightful place. Benoît Rondeau exhaustively examines the particular characteristics of the soldier of the British Empire, the conditions in which he fought, how he was trained, commanded, equipped, cared for... He seeks to capture in its entirety the daily life of the...
THE FIRST FRENCH ARMY - From Provence to Germany, 1944-1945
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The definitive study of the army that liberated southern France. On 15 August 1944, the First French Army landed in Provence. Numbering some 300,000 soldiers in its ranks, it liberated, that summer, the major cities of southern France. It was subsequently sent into Germany, the Alps and northern Italy. This First French Army was commanded by General de...
Bonaparte's Men - The Conquest of Power, 1793–1800
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On the road to power! This work focuses on the period during which Napoleon Bonaparte established himself among the principal protagonists of the Revolution before, ultimately, seizing power. The starting point is the appearance on the scene of a young artillery officer at the recapture of Toulon from the English in 1793; the end point is the victory of...
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