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Mexican Campaign 1862-1867 - Carnets de la Sabretache Mexican Campaign 1862-1867 - Carnets de la Sabretache 2
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Mexican Campaign 1862-1867 - Carnets de la Sabretache

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Initially hailed by the apologists of the Second Empire as the "greatest idea of the reign" of Emperor Napoleon III, the French army's expedition to Mexico ended, after several years of a gruelling and brutal campaign, in a humiliating withdrawal in 1867.This unhappy episode, which marked the beginning of the regime's military decline, nonetheless leaves...
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The Secret Operations of the D-Day Landings The Secret Operations of the D-Day Landings 2
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The Secret Operations of the D-Day Landings

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To prepare and ensure the success of the Normandy landings, the Allied command devised special operations carried out by small units acting in the greatest secrecy to undertake dangerous missions. Gathering intelligence, deceiving the enemy, facilitating the task of the assault forces and recovering enemy military technology — these were their objectives.
De Gaulle and Bayeux – The Call of 16 June 1946 for a... De Gaulle and Bayeux – The Call of 16 June 1946 for a... 2
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De Gaulle and Bayeux – The Call of 16 June 1946 for a Strong State

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this new work — following the same author's volume devoted to 14 June 1944 — reminds us that Bayeux played a central role in de Gaulle's conception of the State; here through the founding speech of the Fifth Republic delivered on 16 June 1946. The author follows it step by step, supported by a richly illustrated iconography.
General Pierre-Alexis Duclaux 1775–1828 – Carnet de la... General Pierre-Alexis Duclaux 1775–1828 – Carnet de la... 2
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General Pierre-Alexis Duclaux 1775–1828 – Carnet de la Compagnie d'Elite

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General PIERRE ALEXIS DUCLAUX (1775–1828) This new issue of the Cahiers de la Compagnie d'Élite came to fruition through the meeting of passionate enthusiasts who, with great generosity, opened the doors of their collections to allow us to discover and share an exceptional set of mementos belonging to General Pierre-Alexis Duclaux (1775–1828). The story...
CARENTAN - Linking Omaha Beach / Utah Beach, Part 5 CARENTAN - Linking Omaha Beach / Utah Beach, Part 5 2
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CARENTAN - Linking Omaha Beach / Utah Beach, Part 5

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CARENTAN – Linking Omaha Beach – Utah Beach, Part 5 Paratroopers vs. Fallschirmjäger This fifth volume is part of a series of ten works devoted to the American airborne operations in Normandy, ultimately representing more than 3,500 pages and 5,000 photographs. This volume is not a simple history book. It is an immersion. A plunge into the heart of the...
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G.I. Joe - Ernie Pyle G.I. Joe - Ernie Pyle 2
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G.I. Joe - Ernie Pyle

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A celebrated reporter, Ernie Pyle became a war correspondent when the Second World War broke out and set off alongside the American Army (Company of the 18th Infantry Regiment). Following it through its victories as well as its defeats, he first covered events in North Africa and went as far as the heart of Italy at the Battle of Monte Cassino, then...
The Third Reich. From Origins to Collapse. Two-volume... The Third Reich. From Origins to Collapse. Two-volume... 2
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The Third Reich. From Origins to Collapse. Two-volume boxed set

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A masterful and pioneering synthesis, hailed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's The Third Reich belongs to that category of reference works that read like a novel. Acclaimed by hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide, this colossal work owes its originality to the fact that the author, residing in Berlin from 1934 to...
History of the 3rd SS-Totenkopf Division History of the 3rd SS-Totenkopf Division 2
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History of the 3rd SS-Totenkopf Division

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Paperback edition The SS Totenkopf division was among the Waffen-SS 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 figures involved in the division throughout its wartime service and its organisation. Initially drawn from the personnel of concentration camp...
Ideology and Rites of the SS - Between the Aryan Myth and... Ideology and Rites of the SS - Between the Aryan Myth and... 2
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Ideology and Rites of the SS - Between the Aryan Myth and Fanaticism

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More than a mere military organization, the SS was the ideological pillar of the Nazi regime — an elitist order founded on mystical rites, fanatical discipline, and a totalitarian worldview. Through this work, Marc-André Ennas lays bare the workings of this relentless apparatus, from its indoctrination to its role in the crimes of the Third Reich. How did...
VICHY - History of a Dictatorship 1940-1944
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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....
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NUREMBERG - The Trial Album
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NUREMBERG - The Trial Album

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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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History of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf

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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 - 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 HIDDEN TRUTHS OF THE PURGE – Thirst for Justice or Desire for Revenge?

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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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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...
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HIROSHIMA, THE COUNTDOWN - The 116 Days That Changed the...
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HIROSHIMA, THE COUNTDOWN - The 116 Days That Changed the Course of History

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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 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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UNDER VICHY'S ORDERS - An Investigation into the French Police and the Deportation

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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 FRENCH IN THE KOREAN WAR - BF/ONU 1950–1953

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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

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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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Figures of Soldiers – Crimea 1854–1856

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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...
UP FRONT - The Hidden Face of the US Army - Pulitzer...
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UP FRONT - The Hidden Face of the US Army - Pulitzer Prize 1945

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Pulitzer Prize 1945 - The cult reportage by the GIs' favourite cartoonist "The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry." Bill Mauldin A gifted child from a poor family, Bill Mauldin (1921–2003) enlisted in 1940 and became the cartoonist for the great Army daily Stars and Stripes. Sent to the European front, he was the first to describe the...
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Civil Wars - From the Renaissance to the Present Day
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Civil Wars - From the Renaissance to the Present Day

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" The greatest of evils is civil war " (Pascal) Following on from their previous successful collective work Le dernier carré, Jean-Christophe Buisson and Jean Sévillia have brought together renowned historians and journalists to recount the most significant civil wars that have disfigured the history of humanity, from the Wars of Religion that tore Europe...
Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations,...
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Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations, compromises, contradictions

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The Collaboration, between 1940 and 1944, was not an invention of the German victor; the latter occupied, administered, persecuted and plundered, without concern for the approval of the vanquished. It was the vanquished who first resorted to this word and gave it substance in the hope — quickly turned illusion — of profiting from it. The Collaboration...
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The Soviets at War. 1939–1949
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The Soviets at War. 1939–1949

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Over ten years, between 1939 and 1949, the USSR moved from isolated nation to superpower on equal footing with the United States. For its leaders, the Second World War was marked by a spirit of sacrifice and heroism. For the people, this period meant great catastrophes: the Shoah, the famine of 1946–1947, and civil war in Ukraine and the Baltic states....
L'Affaire de Tunisie 1881–1883
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L'Affaire de Tunisie 1881–1883

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From the "bandit hunt" to the Protectorate, 1881–1883. How could a reader in 1881 be informed about a war in Tunisia leading to the establishment of a "protectorate" that same year, during a period when France was in a state of intense political, industrial, economic, and artistic upheaval? The press was the only link, allowing readers to follow, almost...
Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer
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Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer

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"I could take out that bastard with my eyes closed", proposed the British military attaché in Berlin, who laid out his plan of action to his superiors in 1939. Of the 42 documented assassination attempts on Hitler, the majority were carried out by the German resistance, which recognized early on Hitler's appetite for war. Ordinary citizens, workers,...
Medieval Furniture - Utensils and Ceramics from 500 to 1500
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Medieval Furniture - Utensils and Ceramics from 500 to 1500

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As the thousand years of history and civilisation of the Middle Ages continue to yield new discoveries, the furniture of that period remains poorly understood. Following our revised reprint, reworked in 2008, of Viollet-le-Duc's Mobilier médiéval, a more current and comprehensive documentation was required. Drawing on the extensive archives of our journal...
SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to... SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to... 2
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SS-Panzer-Division "FRUNDSBERG" Vol. 1: From Galicia to Normandy

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Charles Trang and Pierre Tiquet join forces for the fourth time to publish a work on the 10.SS-Panzerdivision "Frundsberg". Unlike previous books on this division, which focused primarily on the Battle of Normandy, this one will cover its complete history in detail, from its formation in January 1943 to its disintegration in the Spremberg pocket in April...
The Fall of Dien Bien Phu
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The Fall of Dien Bien Phu

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« Military authorities [believed] that Communist troops would be incapable of taking Dien Bien Phu. Giap's soldiers came and it was a horror, with a tragic end beneath shellfire and torrential rain. The men waded through mud, blood, urine, excrement, rats and pestilential odours. The wounded were operated on in the midst of this charnel house, with no...
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