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Secret Album of the Templars
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Secret Album of the Templars

L20200234
€21.80
A compilation bringing together, in an album illustrated primarily with fine antique colour engravings, the greatest secrets of the Templars… * Following the Secret Guide and the New Secrets on the Templars, a selection of the most mysterious and original stories about the Order of the Temple, gathered in a large-format volume. * Antique colour...
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The Vikings – History & Tales
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The Vikings – History & Tales

L20200233
€23.70
The great episodes of Viking history, from Erik the Red to Harald Fairhair, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, are retraced in documented accounts. From the lively pen of Jean Mabire, here is the fabulous history of the Vikings, kings of the seas, superbly told. Gathered here are the exploits of Erik the Red, Harald Bluetooth, Harald Fairhair and...
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The Marshall Plan – At the Dawn of the Cold War
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The Marshall Plan – At the Dawn of the Cold War

L20200232
€25.50
"The Marshall Plan" is a pertinent and remarkably well-written work of diplomatic and economic history. Leaders and experts from around the world keep calling for a new "Marshall Plan", but how many truly understand what that plan was about, how it was created and how it was carried out? This book will open eyes and minds". Alan Greenspan, former...
The German Failure on the Marne 30 May–13 June 1918
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The German Failure on the Marne 30 May–13 June 1918

L20200206
€18.96
This book is the translation of the work entitled Growing Difficulties 1918 – Futile Struggle in Front of Compiègne, Villers-Cotterêts and Reims, volume 33 of the series « Die Schlachten des Weltkrieges », published by the Reichsarchiv in 1930. No French translation of this book has ever been published, even though it had been translated after the war by...
Nord 1914, the Invasion
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Nord 1914, the Invasion

L20200205
€20.85
French military plans before 1914 envisaged a war fought mainly in eastern France. The Schlieffen Plan, drawn up by the German General Staff, threw the Kaiser's armies into Belgium, from where they pushed into the north without stopping, with the objective of destroying the French army between Paris and the Vosges. After the check on the Marne, the two...
In Search of the Lost Manuscripts of Chevalier Allent...
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In Search of the Lost Manuscripts of Chevalier Allent 1772–1837

L20200204
€11.37 €22.75
In 1805, Chevalier Allent published, at the request of General Marescot, a Histoire du corps impérial du génie, intended as a first part covering origins through the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and calling for a continuation. In 1806, he appended to the état du corps impérial du génie a Précis de l'histoire des arts et instructions militaires in...
The Mulsanne Notebook - German Prisoners of War in France...
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The Mulsanne Notebook - German Prisoners of War in France - 1945–1947

L20200203
€22.75
A German prisoner-of-war camp, somewhere in the Sarthe, on a bend of the Le Mans 24 Hours circuit. With the capitulation of Germany, 75 years ago, in May 1945, eleven million German soldiers found themselves prisoners. Among them, 700,000 were interned in France, sometimes under very harsh conditions. They would help to rebuild France. This is the...
The Story of Hitler, Germania and Co. - Paul Ordner The Story of Hitler, Germania and Co. - Paul Ordner 2
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The Story of Hitler, Germania and Co. - Paul Ordner

L20200201
€11.85 €23.70
Paul Ordner, a celebrated sports and political cartoonist of the mid-20th century, depicts in 26 drawn tableaux the rise, the misdeeds and the fall of the terrible couple Hitler and Germania. Annotated reissue of the collection published in 1945. The sketches are reproduced identically, presented and commented upon by Yves Buffetaut.
1940 - A Strange Defeat
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1940 - A Strange Defeat

L20200193
€8.53 €17.06
May–June 1940 Disaster, rout, shipwreck, collapse, catastrophe… The defeat of the French army in 1940 was experienced as a genuine shockwave. Its speed and brutality reinforced the ideological victory of the future Vichy government and plunged the country into the darkest hours of its history. Yet nothing seems able to shake the distorted view that...
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A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army
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A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army

L20200192
€33.18
The Fight Across Europe with the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division in World War II The untold story of Frank Lembo, one of Patton's men offering the rare perspective of what day-to-day warfare at the ground-level looked like in the European Theater through the eyes of one of the men spearheading the advance.
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THE BOOK OF THE 9,000 DEPORTEES FROM MITTELBAU-DORA
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THE BOOK OF THE 9,000 DEPORTEES FROM MITTELBAU-DORA

L20200151
€46.45
A book unique in the world. Close to Buchenwald, to which it was initially attached, Mittelbau-Dora was one of the most lethal concentration and extermination-through-labour camps of the Third Reich. From August 1943 to April 1945, nearly 9,000 deportees from France dug tunnels to build an industrial site and assemble the components of V2 rockets intended...
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VERDUN THROUGH THREE WARS 1870 - 1945
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VERDUN THROUGH THREE WARS 1870 - 1945

L20200148
€17.06
1870–1945: three conflicts in less than a century, including two world wars, and one city, guardian of France — Verdun. Verdun, elevated to a national symbol by the Battle of 1916, was also occupied twice by the Second Reich between 1870 and 1873, then by the Third Reich in 1940–1944. From its vast remodelled citadel to the Vauban ramparts and its...
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