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Crabs and Alligators in the Rice Paddies
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Crabs and Alligators in the Rice Paddies

L20220009
€21.80
Through 100 letters, Jacques Jauffret, a young officer with the 1er REC (1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment), takes us through two years of his posting in Indochina. Given the nature of the terrain, the 1er REC was equipped with American-made amphibious vehicles. Beyond this first-hand account from the level of the rice paddies and rivers, what makes these...
Chronicles of Cochinchina
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Chronicles of Cochinchina

L20220007
€23.70
Speaking 2 languages of Indochina, Lieutenant SIMON built outposts, opened roads, established villages, and pursued rebels through the virgin forest. He gathered fascinating confidences at the armistice commission.
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Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry 2
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Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry

L20160127
€10.43
A superb volume gathering the Traditions of the Marine Infantry and all its songs: patriotic, traditional, regimental, marching, bivouac, mess and humour. In a very practical format with clear layout, pleasantly illustrated.
Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the... Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the... 2
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Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the clash of five armies

L20160058
€28.25
The armies of five nations were present in Italy in 1943 — American, British, French, Polish and German — and their confrontation was one of the most brutal of the Second World War, both for the combatants and for the civilian population, who are never spoken of. Faced with the all-out resistance of the German forces on the Gustav Line south of Rome, the...
A UN Blue Helmet Among the Khmer Rouge – Journal of a...
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A UN Blue Helmet Among the Khmer Rouge – Journal of a Peacekeeping Soldier, Cambodia 1992

L20210123
€18.48
On his first overseas mission, Captain Guillaume Ancel, aged 27, arrives in Cambodia in May 1992 — a country ravaged by twenty years of war. Alongside the soldiers of the UNTAC peacekeeping mission (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia), the task is to enforce the Paris Agreements, beginning with the disarmament of the factions. Easier said...
ACHTUNG PANZER! – HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG
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ACHTUNG PANZER! – HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG

L20210122
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HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG This book is not for every reader. This is neither a biography, nor the war memoirs of a celebrated soldier, still less a work recounting the adventures of combatants caught up in the thunder of battle. No, Achtung Panzer! is anything but that! It is a military essay — but no ordinary one: the very work that...
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THE SAMURAI ATTACK – How Japan Almost Won the War
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THE SAMURAI ATTACK – How Japan Almost Won the War

L20210121
€33.08
In this compelling analysis, Simon Le Bouché revisits the first year of war waged by the Empire of the Rising Sun in the Asia-Pacific theatre, deciphering its war machine and strategies. All fronts and all operational theatres of the three arms (land, air, sea) are presented and explained, as are the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese forces as well...
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 2 1943-1945 // The Zenith
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 2 1943-1945 // The Zenith

L20210119
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The Soviet victory at Stalingrad, despite the losses, marks the beginning of the Red Army's transformation. Driven by ambitious generals (and an omnipotent Stalin), it gradually changed beyond recognition, bearing almost no resemblance to the army of the summer of 1941. Despite German resistance, the Soviets pressed on towards the very heart of the III....
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FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954 FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954 2
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FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954

L20210114
€37.87
The French Army's airborne troops underwent spectacular growth during the Indochina War, following the initial formations raised with Allied assistance in 1943–1945. The fighting in Indochina, with its violence and sporadic character, severely tested these units, which carried out numerous combat jumps across every hotspot, right up to the sacrifice at...
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Par le sang versé - La Légion étrangère en Indochine
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Par le sang versé - La Légion étrangère en Indochine

L20210112
€9.95
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 British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second...
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The British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second World War

L20210110
€22.75
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 FIRST FRENCH ARMY - From Provence to Germany, 1944-1945

L20210099
€24.64
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...
THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 1 1918 - 1943 // From Birth to...
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 1 1918 - 1943 // From Birth to Stalingrad

L20210097
€37.82
OUT OF PRINT Emerging from the First World War, the Red Army bore no resemblance to a genuine professional military force and stood as an exception among Western armies. Yet its victory in the Russian Civil War allowed it to be elevated as the USSR's bulwark against external aggression… as well as a standard-bearer of world communism. In the 1930s, the...
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Bonaparte's Men - The Conquest of Power, 1793–1800
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Bonaparte's Men - The Conquest of Power, 1793–1800

L20210092
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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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History of Military Orders or of Knights - Book 4, From...
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History of Military Orders or of Knights - Book 4, From 1400 to 1700

L20210091
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This History of Military Orders or of Knights, of secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several authors specialising in the antiquity of these Orders — such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc. — authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From 1150 to 1400

L20210090
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 2, From 700...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 2, From 700 to 1150

L20210089
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 1, From 400...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 1, From 400 to 700

L20210088
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
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PANZERDIVISION HITLERJUGEND - TOME 1 - VOLUME 1 - Belgium... PANZERDIVISION HITLERJUGEND - TOME 1 - VOLUME 1 - Belgium... 2
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PANZERDIVISION HITLERJUGEND - TOME 1 - VOLUME 1 - Belgium France

L20210081
€56.87
This first part of Volume 1 reviews the histories of the divisional formations (Divisions-Stab, SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt.25, SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt.26, SS-Pz.Pi.Btl.12, SS-Pz.Aufkl.Abt.12, SS-Pz.Art.Rgt.12, SS-Flak-Abt.12, SS-Pz.Nachr.Abt.12), from their establishment in summer 1943 in Flanders through to June 1944 in Normandy.
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THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 2
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THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968

L20210070
€20.85
More than fifty years after Joseph-Désiré Mobutu's rise to power in the Congo, it is time to take a clear-eyed look at that era and to try to understand the role of each party — and especially of the mercenaries — in this page of history of which only the scattered ashes of memory will remain. Drawing on their lived experiences and official documents, the...
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Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today 2
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Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today

L20210068
€7.11 €14.22
The photographic technique of superimposing two identical images taken at two different periods is fairly widespread and visible on the web today, but is rarely published. It seemed fitting to use it to evoke the history of 1944, whose traces are visible everywhere in the Normandy we know today. Without following a "classic" account of the Battle of...
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