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THE LAST FIRES OF THE ALGERIAN WAR
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The twilight of French Algeria. This work covers the final months of "l'Empire" and answers many questions that have long remained open. Yes, even before the Évian Accords, contacts between the French State and the FLN took place against the OAS and the populations opposed to independence. Yes again, there was a joint engagement against the maquis of the...
THE 25th PARACHUTE DIVISION - ALGERIA 1956-1961
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HISTORY - WEAPONS - UNIFORMS - INSIGNIA - EQUIPMENT This work is dedicated to the 25th Parachute Division in Algeria, spearhead of the French Army's general reserve units in North Africa, whose battles and hopes it shared from 1956 to 1961. Commanded by officers bearing prestigious names intimately linked to the parachute tradition (Gilles, Sauvagnac,...
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...
DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo 2
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DUNKIRK 1940 - Operation Dynamo

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Four years before the Allied landings in Normandy, the French coastline was the scene of another major episode of the Second World War: Operation Dynamo, far less well known today than D-Day.
Military Emigration 1791–1815 Military Emigration 1791–1815 2
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Military Emigration 1791–1815

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Under the direction of Hughes de Bazouges According to Fouché himself, the emigration involved approximately 150,000 individuals (when France had a population of 20 million), of whom around 20,000 bore arms, from 1791 to 1815, for their God and their King. From the royalist armies raised in 1791–1792 to individual foreign service sometimes extended until...
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...
The CNR Programme — National Council of the Resistance
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The Programme of the National Council of the Resistance was adopted, clandestinely and unanimously, on 15 March 1944 in occupied France. This programme "for France" remains highly relevant today by the force of its ideas. L'Esprit du Temps reissues this founding text with the preface by Stéphane Hessel, one of the signatories of the programme, written in...
THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY AT WAR 1914-1918 / 1939-1945
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Australia, a dominion little known before the First World War, forged a strong national identity from 1915 onwards. It fought on the battlefields of Gallipoli, at the Dardanelles. It also intervened in the terrible fighting on the French front from 1916, at Fromelles in the Nord, then at Arras and on the Somme. During the Second World War, the Australians...
RÜCKMARSCH 1944, THE GERMAN RETREAT ON ALL FRONTS
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At the beginning of June 1944, the Third Reich still extended its domination over the greater part of Europe. The German strategy for the summer of 1944 was all-round defence. This was intended to allow a decisive outcome in the West before returning to the offensive in the East. By the end of the summer, a series of defeats unprecedented in their scale...
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...
We the Commune - 18 March 1871 – 28 May 1871
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The Commune of 1871 is presented here through its fighters, women and men, with their stories told in detail. A visual investigation — entertaining, rigorous, and accessible to all — into a founding moment of political modernity. On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris refused the government's decision to capitulate to Prussia, then at war with France. A...
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