HISTORY

VICHY - History of a Dictatorship 1940-1944
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More than eighty years after its demise, the Vichy regime continues to haunt our collective memory. Within a matter of days in July 1940, the Republic collapsed. Behind Marshal Pétain — national hero turned head of the French State — and the unscrupulous politician Pierre Laval, opportunists playing the German card and far-right ideologues seized power....
NUREMBERG - The Trial Album
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NUREMBERG - The Trial Album

L20260009
€28.34
On 20 November 1945, one of the most important trials in history opened in Nuremberg, during which 24 senior officials of the Third Reich were judged, including Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess. American photographer Charles W. Alexander spent a year capturing exceptional images that show, with rare clarity and detail,...
History of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf History of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf 2
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Hardcover edition The SS Totenkopf Division was among the Waffen-SS (SS combat troops) the most fanatical and most feared unit of the Second World War. This book traces the formation of the unit, including its origins, and the key men involved in the division throughout its wartime service and organisation. Originally drawn from the personnel of...
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...
THE HIDDEN TRUTHS OF THE PURGE – Thirst for Justice or...
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The powerful spared, minor figures and innocent people condemned: a fresh look at a dark period in French history At the Liberation, France celebrated victory over the Nazi occupier. Between 1944 and 1953, people were tried, condemned, shorn, executed. But behind this apparent justice, a far more complex — and sometimes disturbing — reality takes shape....
IN THE FRONT LINE - A History of Nurses in the Great War
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« Our wounded are admirable, wonderful. Not a single complaint. They let themselves have their arms and legs cut off, their skulls opened without a murmur. (…) It is for France. » « I hurry towards the dressing room, and there unfolds the harrowing procession of hideous wounds, atrocious destruction, a pulp of flesh, bones and splinters. » From the...
HIROSHIMA, THE COUNTDOWN - The 116 Days That Changed the...
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1945 - 2025 80 years ago, the world was turned upside down April 12, 1945, D-116: Harry Truman, Vice President of the United States, receives a call: Franklin D. Roosevelt is dead. Thrust into command of the world's foremost power, he learns of the Manhattan Project, established to develop the atomic bomb. May 8, 1945, D-90: Harry Truman announces...
THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF GERMANY 1918-1930
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The first synthesis on the French Army of the Rhine (1918–1930), this work illuminates a forgotten yet strategic occupation, revealing its military, political, and diplomatic stakes in a Europe transformed in the aftermath of the Great War. At the end of the First World War, the Allied armies were stationed in Germany and France took charge of 75% of the...
UNDER VICHY'S ORDERS - An Investigation into the French...
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Certainly, faced with the Vichy government — antisemitic, xenophobic and racist — the room for manoeuvre of the French police was limited. Nevertheless: how could thousands of police officers have arrested so many defenceless people and escorted them to the deportation trains without ever opposing their orders? Raphaël Delpard's investigation goes beyond...
THE FRENCH IN THE KOREAN WAR - BF/ONU 1950–1953 THE FRENCH IN THE KOREAN WAR - BF/ONU 1950–1953 2
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The history of the French Battalion of the UN during the terrible Korean War was until now very poorly known. After twenty years of research by the author, his quest for testimonies from direct witnesses — many of whom have since passed away — allowed him to gather the personal recollections of former officers, non-commissioned officers, corporals and...
REDISCOVERING THE VIKINGS
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REDISCOVERING THE VIKINGS

L20250173
€27.96
Vikings are increasingly in the spotlight of films and television series, often with significant departures from what archaeological and historical research tells us. Through that research and the work of demanding re-enactment groups, the author finally allows us to rediscover them. The Vikings… Their raids, and the ancient Scandinavian civilisation from...
Figures of Soldiers – Crimea 1854–1856 Figures of Soldiers – Crimea 1854–1856 2
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THE TIMELESS LEGACY OF THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN 1854–1856: Art and Moral Forces Sevastopol, 8 September 1855. The main naval port of the Russian Imperial Fleet on the Black Sea has just fallen to the Franco-British expeditionary force, supported by two small Turkish and Sardinian contingents, bringing an end to a year of gruelling siege warfare punctuated by...
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