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HONOUR IN THE FEMININE - Portraits of Women in the...
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HONOUR IN THE FEMININE - Portraits of Women in the Service of Free France

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1940. Refusing the armistice requested by Marshal Pétain following the country's collapse, General de Gaulle made a solemn appeal from London on 18 June to rally the French — military and civilian alike — who wished to resume the fight against the German invader. From November onwards, the small Free France army thus formed opened its recruitment to...
MINE CLEARANCE IN NORMANDY 1944–1948 MINE CLEARANCE IN NORMANDY 1944–1948 2
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MINE CLEARANCE IN NORMANDY 1944–1948

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Across France, more than 500,000 hectares of land had been mined during the Second World War. Nearly 6 million mines were laid on Field Marshal Rommel's orders as part of the Atlantic Wall alone, to defend the French beaches against invasion. The Normandy coastline proved severely affected by this "mine warfare." With Liberation came the time for...
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The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648
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The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648

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Between 1618 and 1648, Europe was ravaged by war. No synthesis has until now shown with such clarity the violence and the scope of this civil and European war. The first clashes of the Thirty Years' War broke out in Bohemia in 1618, with the Defenestration of Prague. What at first appears to be an act of rebellion by Protestant-leaning nobles against the...
1945, Hiroshima - Source Images
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1945, Hiroshima - Source Images

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A work that catalogues and analyses the photographs taken on the day and in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It retraces the context in which the images were taken, identifies their authors — Japanese and American alike — and shows how they were disseminated and reinvested in culture. This work catalogues and analyses the...
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The Military Revolution of Year II, 1794 between Flanders and the Moselle

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The campaign of 1794 is first and foremost that of Year II (21 September 1793 – 20 September 1794). Unprecedented in its scale of men, challenges and materiel, it mobilises the efforts of the young Republic. It is also a period in which grand operational plans mature; the "système général" will be their synthesis and the matrix for the major campaigns to...
THE WAFFEN-SS IN COMBAT 1933 - 1945 THE WAFFEN-SS IN COMBAT 1933 - 1945 2
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THE WAFFEN-SS IN COMBAT 1933 - 1945

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The Waffen-SS is one of the most curiosity-provoking subjects in military history. From a small, highly elitist Praetorian guard embodying concepts of Germanic "racial purity", it ended up drawing in approximately one million increasingly eclectic combatants whose military quality ranged from elite to mediocre and who, alongside remarkable troops, fielded...
History and Art: Berezina 1812. A Tribute to the 126th RI... History and Art: Berezina 1812. A Tribute to the 126th RI... 2
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History and Art: Berezina 1812. A Tribute to the 126th RI - Carnet de la Sabretache

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The only unit of the current French Army to bear the battle honour "La Bérézina 1812" on its colours, the 126th Infantry Regiment celebrated the 210th anniversary of the event on 25 November 2022, beneath the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile. This volume recounts its role during the crossing of the Berezina, in the course of which the 126th Line Regiment...
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THE QUASI-WAR - The conflict between France and the...
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THE QUASI-WAR - The conflict between France and the United States, 1796-1800

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Who knows that France and the United States went to war? In the second half of the 1790s, these two formerly allied powers entered into open conflict. Although war was never officially declared, French and Americans clashed in naval engagements on both sides of the Atlantic, seizing each other's vessels in large numbers and causing several thousand dead...
HISTORY OF THE SCHWERE PANZER-ABTEILUNG 654 HISTORY OF THE SCHWERE PANZER-ABTEILUNG 654 2
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HISTORY OF THE SCHWERE PANZER-ABTEILUNG 654

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History of the schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 654 — Russia 1943 – Normandy 1944 – Alsace 1944–1945 Discover the complete history of the schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 654 during its fighting on Ferdinands in Russia in 1943, then on the legendary Jagdpanther in the summer of 1944 in Normandy, during operations in Alsace 1944–1945 and through to the final...
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DICTIONARY OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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DICTIONARY OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR

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This monumental work, conceived by the foremost French and foreign specialists under the direction of Jean-Marie Moeglin, offers the most complete picture yet of a century-long conflict that shaped the history of two nations, France and England, between the 14th and 15th centuries. The Hundred Years' War has long suffered from an old and narrow...
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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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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF FRANCE
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF FRANCE

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Thousands of discoveries constantly emerge under the archaeologists' trowel. The remains of dwellings, tombs, sanctuaries and workshops enrich our heritage as much as our understanding of past societies. Never before had these archives of the soil — from the Rhine to Finistère, from the Bay of the Somme to Corsica and the overseas territories — been...
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