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THE SKIES OF THE REICH - 1944
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THE SKIES OF THE REICH - 1944

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February 1944: Operation Argument, the greatest aerial battle in history. It is too easily forgotten: the Americans and the British were not certain of success when they landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944. Their worst nightmare was the prospect of 1,000 Luftwaffe fighters — with the best pilots in the world — contesting air superiority over the beaches and...
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THEORY OF THE COMBATANT – Close Combat: An Eternal Return...
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THEORY OF THE COMBATANT – Close Combat: An Eternal Return or a Revolution to Come?

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On 18 August 2008, 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 others wounded in the Afghan mountains. No one had seen the ambush set up by the Taliban and their local allies coming. This tragic event is the starting point of Michel Goya's new work, which opens with a description of the fighting in the Uzbin Valley and then analyses its consequences. A sharp...
CHURCHILL
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CHURCHILL

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The finest biography of Churchill, enriched with previously unpublished documents. A towering publishing success. Of Churchill, one believes, everything has been said — first and foremost by himself. And yet Andrew Roberts has managed to unearth press articles, private correspondence, personal diaries — not the least of which is that of King George VI,...
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VERSAILLES - From Its Origins to the Present Day
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VERSAILLES - From Its Origins to the Present Day

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Versailles, estate, history, city and territory: The essential reference! This new project on Versailles aims to take up the torch from Pierre Verlet's monograph, Le Château de Versailles, published by Fayard in 1961 and reissued in a new edition in 1985. This model of scholarship has established itself as the definitive reference on the Ancien Régime...
Civil Wars - From the Renaissance to the Present Day
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Civil Wars - From the Renaissance to the Present Day

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" The greatest of evils is civil war " (Pascal) Following on from their previous successful collective work Le dernier carré, Jean-Christophe Buisson and Jean Sévillia have brought together renowned historians and journalists to recount the most significant civil wars that have disfigured the history of humanity, from the Wars of Religion that tore Europe...
The Great War Beyond the Trenches - Tannenberg,...
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The Great War Beyond the Trenches - Tannenberg, Caporetto, Tsingtao, Jutland, Togoland...

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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,...
History of the French Army — from 1914 to the Present Day
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History of the French Army — from 1914 to the Present Day

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With the clarity, precision and analytical rigour that have made his reputation, Philippe Masson recounts the fortunes and misfortunes of the French Army from 1914 to 1994 — in other words, across the entire twentieth century. 1914: it is the dawn of the Great War, the army narrowly avoids disaster before winning the titanic battle that earned it the...
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Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch
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Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch

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On 22 April 1961, Generals Challe, Zeller, and Jouhaud — soon joined by Salan — launched a putsch in Algiers. The following day, General de Gaulle addressed the nation: "An insurrectional power has established itself in Algeria [...]. This power has an outward appearance: a handful of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of partisan, ambitious and...
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The Wars of Afghanistan
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The Wars of Afghanistan

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Afghanistan: the epicentre of wars for two centuries. The history of Afghanistan is above all a military history — the history of a country perpetually embroiled in conflict due to foreign invasions or power struggles. It is the history of a nation that fought to assert its independence in the face of expansionist powers. Its unity and the power of its...
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General Beaufre. Father of French Strategy
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General Beaufre. Father of French Strategy

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Born in 1902, André Beaufre joined the army as a young man. A lieutenant in the Rif where he was seriously wounded in 1925, he became a captain of Moroccan tirailleurs a decade later, before witnessing the collapse of June 1940. A fellow fugitive with General Giraud in 1942, he took part in the liberation of France. After Indochina, he became a general...
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Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis
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Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis

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On 14 October 1962, an American aircraft spotted nuclear-tipped missiles being installed in Cuba — Soviet missiles less than 200 kilometres from the American coastline. What followed was thirteen days of arm-wrestling between the two superpowers, led by Kennedy and Khrushchev, triggering worldwide acute awareness of the nuclear threat. Thirteen days of...
Reinhard Gehlen. The Spy of the Century?
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Reinhard Gehlen. The Spy of the Century?

L20250109
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A man who operated in the shadows, Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979) navigated the most tragic hours of the twentieth century with unparalleled dexterity, moving from the Nazi secret services to those of the Federal Republic of Germany via the CIA. But who was the man long presented as the "spy of the century"? A career soldier, this committed nationalist...
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