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The German Failure on the Marne 30 May–13 June 1918
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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

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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 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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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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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
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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...
A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army
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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.
THE BOOK OF THE 9,000 DEPORTEES FROM MITTELBAU-DORA
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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...
VERDUN THROUGH THREE WARS 1870 - 1945
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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...
THE WAR IN SEINE-MARITIME - Stories of Objects
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This book is, above all, an encounter — between a Norman historian and a Seine-Maritime museum dedicated to the Second World War. A museum from Forges-les-Eaux with its many treasures, accumulated and staged since 1986 by the Association Départementale du Souvenir de la Résistance (ADSRD). Thierry Chion is a journalist, writer and member of the board of...
THE OTHER TERROR AFTER THE LIGHTNING – THE 11th MARINE...
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From the remote reaches of Ouaddaï in Chad to the plains of the Euphrates in Iraq, the Bigors of the 11th have been deployed on every overseas operational theatre for more than 40 years. Heir to the 1st Colonial Artillery Regiment, whose memory it carefully preserves through the battle honours inscribed on its standard, the 11th Marine Artillery Regiment...
THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception 2
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What does military deception consist of? Is it indispensable for victory, as Sun Tzu claims, or merely incidental, as Clausewitz suggests? How has it been used throughout the centuries? What is the situation today? With what results? Does one have the right to deceive one's adversary in all circumstances and by all means? Are there rules, a doctrine? Does...
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