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World War II Operations in 100 Maps
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World War II Operations in 100 Maps

L202402012
€28.34
Here is the latest prototype from the Perrin laboratories: an operational atlas of the Second World War. This conflict was won through military operations on land, at sea and in the air — to give just one example, the Red Army alone launched more than two hundred. And yet, until now, no one had thought to select the most important, to comment on them and...
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The Resistance Years 1940-1944
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The Resistance Years 1940-1944

L202402011
€28.34
It has often been said and written that the Resistance, by its clandestine nature, had left few archives. Yet new documents, regularly unearthed, continue to enrich its history. What were the first acts of refusal? How did the Resistance gradually take shape, moving from individual acts to collective action? What ties did the internal Resistance fighters...
History of the Ninjas - Henchmen and Spies in Samurai Japan
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History of the Ninjas - Henchmen and Spies in Samurai Japan

L20240209
€19.81
Ninjas – or shinobi – were men of the shadows. Before invading our literary and cinematic imagination, they lived in the age of warlords, in feudal Japan of the 16th century. One should not picture them dressed entirely in black, masked and perched on a rooftop, but rather dressed like country folk, blending into the crowd, undetectable. Their discretion...
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A Lieutenant with the Tanks - An Eyewitness at the Heart...
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A Lieutenant with the Tanks - An Eyewitness at the Heart of the 1940 Turmoil

L20240208
€18.48
A Lieutenant with the Tanks is a previously unpublished account of the 1940 campaign, written by Claude Peignot, officer of the 5th BCP. Particularly vivid, it casts an unsparing eye on the operations, the competence of the commanders and the equipment. The notebooks are annotated and explained by Camille Vargas, an author specialising in world conflicts...
A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the... A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the... 2
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A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the Present Day

L20240207
€24.55
« The history of military signals is a fascinating story. Above all, it is a human adventure », writes General Jacques Eyharts, the "father of the Signals branch", in his preface. It is this adventure that this work — the first of its kind — recounts, in which the authors show how, from a simple army telegraph service, the French Signals Corps became an...
French Nationalist Movements 1920–1945 French Nationalist Movements 1920–1945 2
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French Nationalist Movements 1920–1945

L20240196
€46.45
From the Action française league to the LVF, by way of the PPF and the Milice française, this work offers a broad overview of French nationalist movements from 1920 to 1945. Its presentation in album-book format, showcasing a variety of items (photographs, insignia, membership cards) — many previously unpublished — will delight historians and collectors...
THE CATHAR DRAMA - A Tragic Epic
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THE CATHAR DRAMA - A Tragic Epic

L20240176
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Far from the beaten track and in the light of the latest research, this book restores the page of history that, in the Middle Ages, overturned the history of southern France. It reveals the reality and simplicity of a belief rooted in medieval Christianity. The violent reaction of the Church, backed by the King of France, plunged the region into a...
AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World
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AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World

L20240175
€21.80
"Coca-Cola! Delicious! Refreshing! Stimulating! Invigorating!" On 29 May 1886, The Atlanta Journal published the first advertisement for the beverage invented a few months earlier by John Pemberton. This pharmacist from Columbus, who sold thirteen glasses a day of his soda flavoured with kola nut and cocaine, was far from imagining that, a hundred years...
THE STRATEGY OF DESTRUCTION - Allied Bombing in France, 1944
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THE STRATEGY OF DESTRUCTION - Allied Bombing in France, 1944

L20240174
€24.64
France, spring 1944. A few months before D-Day, bombing raids of unprecedented scale struck more than 70 major cities, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians within a matter of weeks and leaving countless others wounded or homeless. Since 1940, British scientist Solly Zuckerman had devised a sweeping aerial attack plan targeting the French...
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Mortain - Operation Lüttich Mortain - Operation Lüttich 2
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Mortain - Operation Lüttich

L20240166
€39.81
Mortain Operation Lüttich - 1 August 1944, the Panzers counter-attack « All was lost for Germany after the defeat at Mortain » — Kurt Dittmar, Wehrmacht general, 25 April 1945 
 Just two months after D-Day in Normandy, Operation Cobra allowed the Allies to reach the gates of Brittany in record time. Deeply pierced on its left flank, the German front in...
Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP 2
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Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP

L20240156
€21.71
« I grew up in Pont-l'Évêque in the silence of what had happened under the Occupation. Of course I knew that Doctor Étienne Grandrie had been deported, as had the charcutier Émile Pidoux and the lawyer Henri Féquet. I also knew that my grandfather, Jules Letac, had been elected mayor in December 1944. But does one truly know what happens when an enemy...
14-18 - OREP 14-18 - OREP 2
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14-18 - OREP

L20240155
€27.39
"Nothing was ever the same again as it had been before…" On 4 August 1914, just over a month after the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne, Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, predicted: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." The eclipse would...
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Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940 Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940 2
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Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940

L20240146
€28.34
Drawing on the experience of the Great War, women supported by militant feminists undertook a reflection on the role of women in wartime. Studies and initiatives were numerous and covered every field: the Air Force, the Army, support for soldiers, air first aid, parachuting... Before long, the "drôle de guerre" put an end to these promising deliberations...
The History of the 14 July Military Parade – In Paris,...
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The History of the 14 July Military Parade – In Paris, Since 1880

L20240140
€37.82
For nearly 150 years, on 14 July, the French army has paraded through Paris — yet the history of this ceremony, followed each year by millions of French people, has never before been told. Drawing on more than 300 rare or unpublished photographs and a wealth of archival sources, Christian Benoit analyses this event, which symbolises the bond between the...
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New Extraordinary Stories of the D-Day Landings and the...
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New Extraordinary Stories of the D-Day Landings and the Liberation

L20240135
€18.86
The Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944 left an indelible mark on collective memory as the defining event of the Liberation, overshadowing other operations that also played a crucial role in the outcome of the Second World War. Their names were Jeanne Bohec, Pierre Charton, Igor Koniev, John Steele, Marc Russel, Paulette Jacquier and Pierre...
Constantinople, 1453 - "The City Has Fallen!"
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Constantinople, 1453 - "The City Has Fallen!"

L20240131
€23.70
On 29 May 1453 — a Tuesday, the day of the god of War — Constantinople, the second Rome, the millennial capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell into the hands of the Turks. Nearly 7,000 men had resisted for fifty-five days against more than 100,000. Sacked, "the City" was depopulated and 50,000 slaves were taken into the Ottoman world. Emperor Constantine...
1929–1935 - The Crisis
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1929–1935 - The Crisis

L20240130
€23.70
Through the profound destabilisation it caused, the crisis of 1929 reshuffled the cards of history. The post-war period was thought to be over, inflation finally tamed, the thorny question of reparations settled by the Young Plan, peace definitively guaranteed by the League of Nations and the Briand-Kellogg Pact. And yet within a few years all these fine...
STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Vol. 4 Hohenstaufen -... STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Vol. 4 Hohenstaufen -... 2
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STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Vol. 4 Hohenstaufen - Frundsberg

L20240126
€33.18
In this fourth and penultimate volume of the series on the Sturmgeschütze of the Waffen-SS, Pierre Tiquet turns his attention to two celebrated armoured divisions, at one time grouped together within the II. SS-Panzer-Korps: the 9. and 10. SS-Panzer-Divisionen, respectively named "Hohenstaufen" and "Frundsberg". Despite the fairly rapid disbanding of...
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Caesar against Vercingetorix - Nine Months of War in Gaul
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Caesar against Vercingetorix - Nine Months of War in Gaul

L20240125
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In 52 BC the Gallic uprising led by the Arvernian Vercingetorix broke out. The first months of the war were a succession of skirmishes, with Vercingetorix conducting a form of avant la lettre guerrilla warfare. Julius Caesar decided to seek a decisive victory by attacking the capital of the Arverni. The fighting, somewhat disjointed, ended in an...
The Odyssey of the 506th PIR from Toccoa to D-Day The Odyssey of the 506th PIR from Toccoa to D-Day 2
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The Odyssey of the 506th PIR from Toccoa to D-Day

L20240116
€37.44
Easy Company is the best-known airborne parachute company among military history enthusiasts. It has become so famous that some regard it as the unit that ensured the success of the Landings. Until now, no one had undertaken to place its exploits back in their historical context. This work aims to step back from the myth by placing the actions of these...
DE GAULLE - 14 June 1944, A Historic Day DE GAULLE - 14 June 1944, A Historic Day 2
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DE GAULLE - 14 June 1944, A Historic Day

L20240115
€35.07
14 June 1944: a defining day for the liberation and the fate of post-war France. In the face of the hostility of President Roosevelt and the United States, who sought to occupy and make France a vassal state, General de Gaulle restored national integrity at Bayeux on that day. A remarkable document in which the author reconstructs these historic moments...
SAVOIE 1944–1945 – A Long Liberation
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SAVOIE 1944–1945 – A Long Liberation

L20240114
€36.02
The Liberation of metropolitan France began on 6 June 1944 with the landings in Normandy. However, it was not until 15 August, with the landings in Provence, that the German occupation forces began to withdraw eastward through France. In Savoie, the elements of the 157e Reserve-Division occupying the département received orders to make for Italy via the...
Churchill's D-Day – Behind the Scenes of the Landings
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Churchill's D-Day – Behind the Scenes of the Landings

L20240112
€22.65
Was Churchill a visionary strategist or the greatest detractor of the Normandy landings? What role did he leave to the leader of Free France, General de Gaulle, on 6 June 1944? This book casts fresh light on the history of the secret preparations for D-Day, drawing on the personal archives of the British Prime Minister. The success of D-Day was far from...
Saint-Vaast Under Occupation, Saint-Vaast First Liberated...
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Saint-Vaast Under Occupation, Saint-Vaast First Liberated Port – Testimony of Daily Life

L20240105
€28.34
More than a chronicle, Saint-Vaast Under Occupation, Saint-Vaast First Liberated Port is the sensitive collection of words given by veterans and gathered twenty years ago on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day Landings. This work brings together their long-held memories, their testimonies — for the most part previously unpublished — of four...
Yellow Stars in Normandy
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Yellow Stars in Normandy

L20240102
€23.60
Willed by Marshal Pétain, the Statute on Jews was promulgated on 3 October 1940. Alongside this French legislation, the Nazi occupier put in place its own ordinances. Census-taking and Aryanisation were the prelude to the Final Solution. From 1942 onwards, arrests and round-ups followed one another in rapid succession, sending nearly a thousand Jews...
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Historical Record of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, 6... Historical Record of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, 6... 2
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Historical Record of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, 6 June – 25 August 1944

L20240100
€112.80
This exceptional work, remarkable for the information and descriptions it provides, recounts the 17 military operations that marked the months of June to August 1944. The fruit of more than ten years of work, illustrated with numerous maps, it immerses the reader as close as possible to the fighting, to the Allied soldiers and to the Norman civilians...
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THE SECRETS OF THE CIVIL WAR
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THE SECRETS OF THE CIVIL WAR

L20240098
€18.86
Beyond the titanic battles, the Civil War emerges as one of the first, if not the first, modern conflicts in history. From the appearance of the first machine guns to the direction of artillery fire by observation balloon, from the first submarines and the first ironclad vessels to the large-scale use of the telegraph and the railways, this conflict was...
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DICTIONARY OF FRENCH MILITARY HISTORY – From the Origins...
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DICTIONARY OF FRENCH MILITARY HISTORY – From the Origins to the Present Day

L20240093
€21.80
As General de Gaulle expressed it in a celebrated and striking phrase: "France was forged by the sword." To study the history of France — and in many respects the history of Europe and the world — one must above all take into account the military history of our country. To avoid misreadings, anachronisms and other hazardous interpretations, here is — from...
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Daytime Parachute Drops by the 8th Air Force – Arming the...
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Daytime Parachute Drops by the 8th Air Force – Arming the Resistance

L20240091
€27.49
From 1940, special squadrons were formed in England and then in North Africa to support the Resistance in occupied Europe. The remarkable surge in parachute operations during the second half of the war was linked to the entry of the United States into the conflict. The contribution of their enormous industrial potential, combined with operations carried...
RIVER CROSSING 1672–1815 RIVER CROSSING 1672–1815 2
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RIVER CROSSING 1672–1815

L20240089
€25.59
A tactical, human and technical history of river crossings carried out by French armies in the presence of the enemy, 1672–1815 The objective of a river crossing is to transfer sufficient firepower and manoeuvre mass to the far bank to sustain the offensive beyond it. Contrary to the view held by many authors, crossing a waterway under enemy threat is...
LA NUEVE – The Spanish Republicans Who Liberated Paris
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LA NUEVE – The Spanish Republicans Who Liberated Paris

L20240088
€28.39
Through the memories of an exiled Spanish republican in France, Paco Roca reconstructs the history of la Nueve, or the Ninth Company. A remarkable graphic novel about these forgotten heroes who nonetheless liberated Paris in 1944. The majority of the men who made up la Nueve were under twenty years old when they took up arms in 1936 to defend the Spanish...
Special Dossier: THE ALGERIAN WAR
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Special Dossier: THE ALGERIAN WAR

L20240085
€17.06
The ordeal of French soldiers, prisoners of the Algerian army, forced to march day and night, to sleep in hollows on bare ground, or to live in natural underground galleries for months on end. The shooting of 26 March 1962 in Algiers, in which the French army fired on a peaceful demonstration by pieds-noirs, killing 80 people and wounding 200. The...
The Day Napoleon Almost Got Assassinated
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The Day Napoleon Almost Got Assassinated

L20240082
€15.64
On 12 October 1809, Napoleon had installed himself in the residence of the Habsburgs, the dynasty ruling over Austria, which he had subjugated. Frédéric Staps, an exalted 18-year-old nationalist student, regarded the Emperor as a despot and intended to rid Europe of him. He had planned to kill Napoleon at a military parade. Blending into the crowd, he...
The Liberation Battles for Île-de-France – 19 to 31...
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The Liberation Battles for Île-de-France – 19 to 31 August 1944

L20240081
€18.96
Here, throughout the pages the author unfolds to feed our curiosity and knowledge, there are no heroes. Only ordinary people who, with fierce determination and unwavering resolve, broke the chains that bound them in their own country. A thousand common and varied stories unfold chapter after chapter; they also intersect with the major figures of the...
Materiel Regiments and Bases. History and Traditions of... Materiel Regiments and Bases. History and Traditions of... 2
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Materiel Regiments and Bases. History and Traditions of the Maintenance Soldiers

L20240080
€25.50
A soldier without operational equipment cannot win the war: the crucial role of maintenance personnel, the craftsmen of victory… Since man has waged war, he has needed to maintain and repair his weapons. Having long been a service, the Materiel only became a branch of arms in 1976. However, maintenance personnel have always existed: from the king's...
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The Grognards Speak – 400 Testimonies from Napoleon's...
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The Grognards Speak – 400 Testimonies from Napoleon's Soldiers

L20240079
€23.60
Unpublished correspondence of soldiers and officers of the First Empire held at the Service historique de la Défense (1794–1815) The history of the Grande Armée is a matter of scale. While the exploits of its commanders-in-chief have engaged numerous historians over two centuries, the growing interest in the daily lives of its soldiers reflects a...
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