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RWANDA, THE END OF SILENCE - Testimony of a French Officer
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RWANDA, THE END OF SILENCE - Testimony of a French Officer

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Preface by: Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau Against the heavy secret surrounding France's true role and that of its army during the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, Guillaume Ancel sets the truth of his field notebooks — a testimony to the missions in which he took part during Operation Turquoise. The end of silence is also the account of the struggle waged by...
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PACIFICATION IN ALGERIA
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PACIFICATION IN ALGERIA

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« I left Hong Kong in February 1956 (…) I was tired of the intelligence world, I had missed the war in Indochina, I thought I knew enough about insurgencies and I wanted to test some of my theories. » In Pacification en Algérie, a work previously unpublished in France, Lieutenant Colonel David Galula, a leading theorist elevated to the rank of "Clausewitz...
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1940 - TRUTHS AND LEGENDS
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1940 - TRUTHS AND LEGENDS

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The defeat of 1940: how did it come to this? On 13 May 1940, three days after the start of the German offensive, the lines of the French army were breached. On 17 June, Pétain called for a cessation of fighting. On 22 June, the armistice was signed in the forest of Compiègne. On 10 July, deputies and senators voted full powers to the Marshal. In two...
THE NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF CAMP
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THE NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF CAMP

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Between 1941 and 1945, Alsace, annexed to the Third Reich, saw the establishment of one of the deadliest concentration camps of the Second World War: KL-Natzweiler. Of the 52,000 individuals who passed through it, more than 20,000 never returned, victims of terrifying detention conditions, devastating scientific experiments and merciless "death marches"....
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THE DRAMA OF 1940 - General André Beaufre
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THE DRAMA OF 1940 - General André Beaufre

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« The wind of History, when it rises, overpowers the will of men, but it is for men to foresee these storms, to contain them, and even, at the limit, to know how to harness them. » A member of the Grand Quartier général at the time of the Wehrmacht's invasion of France, General André Beaufre was the powerless witness to a collapse without precedent in...
FRENCH VOLUNTEERS IN THE GERMAN ARMY - From the LVF to...
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FRENCH VOLUNTEERS IN THE GERMAN ARMY - From the LVF to the Charlemagne

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Between 1941 and the end of the Second World War, several tens of thousands of Frenchmen fought under the banner of the Third Reich, whether as members of the Légion des volontaires français (LVF), the Légion Tricolore, the Sturmbrigade Frankreich, the Charlemagne division, or various other units (NSKK, Organisation Todt, Kriegsmarine...).
THE SOLDIERS OF 1940. A SACRIFICED GENERATION
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THE SOLDIERS OF 1940. A SACRIFICED GENERATION

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The history of the « phoney war », which mobilised five million French soldiers from 1939 to the defeat of June 1940, has long been reduced, in our national memory, to the Fernandel of La vache et le prisonnier or the adventures of La Septième compagnie. Eighty years after that « strange defeat », the heroes of Dunkirk or of the Maginot Line — prisoners...
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ROMMEL IN NORMANDY - France 1940
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ROMMEL IN NORMANDY - France 1940

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Rommel's passage through Normandy in June 1940 is often overshadowed. The author sought to highlight this brief episode, which was far from straightforward for his division, which nonetheless captured three Norman ports. Ancelle, Boos, Elbeuf, Yvetot, Fécamp, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Le Havre, L'Aigle, La Haye-du-Puits, Marinvast, Cherbourg — Rommel is one...
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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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 book — as much for its form as its content — is the fruit of complementary skills brought together for the first time.
BROTHERS IN ARMS – Pacific War
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BROTHERS IN ARMS – Pacific War

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"At last translated into English, this soberly written book lays bare the daily reality of the soldiers without embellishment." (Le Figaro Magazine) A reference document for historians, this exceptional account was also the primary source of inspiration for the series The Pacific, produced for HBO by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. (Télérama)
STREET WITHOUT JOY – Indochina 1946-1962
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STREET WITHOUT JOY – Indochina 1946–1962

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"A scalpel-sharp analysis of the Indochina War." (Le Point) "Bernard Fall was one of the finest analysts of the conflict, in his own way: part reporter, part researcher." (Le Figaro littéraire) "Undoubtedly the most brilliant history of the agony of French Vietnam." (Le Canard enchaîné)
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