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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

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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.
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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...
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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

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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,...
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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...
French Prisoners of War 1940–1945 French Prisoners of War 1940–1945 2
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French Prisoners of War 1940–1945

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Memories of La vache et le prisonnier with Fernandel are often the only images that come to mind when speaking of the French soldiers taken prisoner in 1940. Yet far from the cinema screen, 1.85 million of them were deprived of their liberty, imprisoned far from home and used as cheap labour. Victims of a distorted image and a French history that unfolded...
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Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch
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Un Quarteron de Généraux avant le Putsch

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On 22 April 1961, Generals Challe, Zeller, and Jouhaud — soon joined by Salan — launched a putsch in Algiers. The following day, General de Gaulle addressed the nation: "An insurrectional power has established itself in Algeria [...]. This power has an outward appearance: a handful of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of partisan, ambitious and...
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The Wars of Afghanistan
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The Wars of Afghanistan

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Afghanistan: the epicentre of wars for two centuries. The history of Afghanistan is above all a military history — the history of a country perpetually embroiled in conflict due to foreign invasions or power struggles. It is the history of a nation that fought to assert its independence in the face of expansionist powers. Its unity and the power of its...
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Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis
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Cuba 1962. The Missile Crisis

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On 14 October 1962, an American aircraft spotted nuclear-tipped missiles being installed in Cuba — Soviet missiles less than 200 kilometres from the American coastline. What followed was thirteen days of arm-wrestling between the two superpowers, led by Kennedy and Khrushchev, triggering worldwide acute awareness of the nuclear threat. Thirteen days of...
CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part IV –... CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part IV –... 2
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CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part IV – First to Lead Setting up the...

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This volume traces in images the epic story of the 101st Airborne Division during its first combat jump in history. This fourth volume in the Carentan series — conceived as a monumental fresco in ten volumes (more than 3,000 pages and 4,000 photographs) — takes you into the very first hours of D-Day, around drop zone C, at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and...
THE GAS WAR - 1914-1918 - Pharmacists in Action THE GAS WAR - 1914-1918 - Pharmacists in Action 2
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THE GAS WAR - 1914-1918 - Pharmacists in Action

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A previously unpublished work on the role of pharmacists in the gas war during the First World War. This original study retraces the horror of these battles and the protective measures available to the belligerents. « France has no chemists — only pharmacists! ». Such is the famous, cutting remark attributed to the German chemist Haber, the instigator of...
A Moi, Auvergne!. An Illustrated History of the 92nd...
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A Moi, Auvergne!. An Illustrated History of the 92nd Infantry Regiment

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"A moi, Auvergne! " The call of the Chevalier d'Assas rings out as a call to bravery and unity. Spoken by the Gauls of the 92nd RI at the close of their regimental song, this emblematic motto is a powerful symbol: the symbol of courage, that of a soldier who sacrifices himself to sound the alarm and save his comrades in arms; the symbol of victory, that...
Sail & Cannon - The World of Sailing Warships - 1745-1815
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Sail & Cannon - The World of Sailing Warships - 1745-1815

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revised and expanded edition The ambition of this richly illustrated work is to guide the reader through an in-depth exploration of the fascinating world of the sailing warship, which reached its peak between 1745 and 1815, from the War of Independence to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, by way of the French Revolution. This book paints a vivid, precise...
Shorn Women – The Bonfires of the Liberation Shorn Women – The Bonfires of the Liberation 2
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Shorn Women – The Bonfires of the Liberation

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Humiliated, ostracised, cast out on the roads of disgrace for having had a "culpable" liaison with an occupier — falsely accused or not of "horizontal collaboration" — this work examines the fate of more than 20,000 women in France between 1943 and 1946.
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ENIGMA, The Time of the Precursors – The Biuro Szyfrow...
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ENIGMA, The Time of the Precursors – The Biuro Szyfrow and Section D Against the...

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Put into service at the dawn of the 1930s, the Enigma machine ensured the encryption of Wehrmacht communications throughout the Second World War. The ability to defeat the billions of combinations generated by its mechanisms stands as one of the principal contributions to victory over the Third Reich. While the cryptological work carried out at Bletchley...
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La Milice Française Dies in Italy
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La Milice Française Dies in Italy

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A rare and striking eyewitness account of the last days of the Milice française in 1945, between exile, fanaticism and final shipwreck in the collapse of the Third Reich. March 1945. Europe is collapsing, Germany is in its death throes, and in the chaos of a war drawing to its close, a handful of men refuse to give up. These are the last loyalists of the...
ONE AGAINST TWELVE - The 87th BCA in the Defence of the...
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ONE AGAINST TWELVE - The 87th BCA in the Defence of the Alps, June 1940

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How the French stood their ground against Italian soldiers in the Queyras in June 1940. The Battle of the Alps is one of the rare engagements to have ended in a French victory during the 1940 campaign in France. While the armies of the north and east were subjected to the blitzkrieg tempo imposed by the enemy, the soldiers of the Alps managed to halt the...
Erwin Rommel. The most famous general of the Third Reich. Erwin Rommel. The most famous general of the Third Reich. 2
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Erwin Rommel. The Most Famous General of the Third Reich.

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Among all the generals of the Third Reich, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is unquestionably the best known, the one whose prestige stands highest. The British, whom he faced in North Africa and in Normandy, were his principal adversaries and those who contributed most to his reputation as a great soldier, a consummate tactician and a chivalrous warrior. They...
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THE 3RD AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION "MARNE DIVISION"
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THE 3RD AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION "MARNE DIVISION"

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This book is the only one in French recounting the history of the 3rd Infantry Division of the United States Army, from its creation to the present day. This major active-duty division is also nicknamed "Marne Division" owing to its exploits in 1918. Between the two wars, it survived on the order of battle despite the "crisis of '29". After the United...
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Memoirs of Hitler's Photographer - "Hitler Was My Friend"
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Memoirs of Hitler's Photographer - "Hitler Was My Friend"

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Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957) is one of the most important figures in the history of the Third Reich. From their first meeting in the Munich beer halls after the First World War, Hitler and he forged a personal friendship and a professional alliance that would prove highly profitable for both men. The first secured the services of a skilled, extremely...
Carabiniers du Roi 1693-1791 - Carnet de la Compagnie...
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Carabiniers du Roi 1693-1791 - Carnet de la Compagnie d'Elite

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Here is a regiment that stands truly apart by virtue of its recruitment method, its organisation, its strength and its employment. Thus, - This regiment did not recruit directly, but was "fed" and replenished with recruits by the other cavalry regiments, following a system analogous to that in force for the Compagnie des Grenadiers à cheval de la Garde; -...
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THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE OF FRANCE 1939-1940 THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE OF FRANCE 1939-1940 2
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THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE OF FRANCE 1939-1940

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1939, the year France was plunged into a new world conflict, marked a third black chapter for the customs officers. After 1870 and 1914, the Military Corps of Customs was once again mobilised. Like their predecessors before them, this third generation of customs fighters did their duty, upholding the motto « Honneur et Patrie » on their standard. These...
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The Secret World of the Gauls
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The Secret World of the Gauls

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Thanks to archaeology, Gaul is gradually revealing itself, offering an unexpected vision of the Gaulish world — brilliant and at odds with the accounts handed down by the Greeks and the Romans. Throughout the five centuries of a history cut short by Caesar's conquest and the defeat of Vercingetorix, the Gauls developed an original political and social...
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Oradour Fell Silent - The Tragic Fate of a French...
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Oradour Fell Silent - The Tragic Fate of a French Village, 10 June 1944

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On 10 June 1944, Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges, was annihilated by an SS division: 643 villagers lost their lives, the women and children asphyxiated then burned in the church while the men were murdered in barns. Giving voice back to the dead through the poignant testimonies of survivors, historian Robert Pike immersed himself in the archives to...
Chronicles of the Liberation – From the Landings to...
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Chronicles of the Liberation – From the Landings to Nuremberg

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6 June 1944: the Allies land on the Normandy coast. 8 May 1945: the armistice between the Allies and Nazi Germany is signed. What happened in a year of fierce fighting and deadly tragedies? Which major events marked the long road to the liberation of France and all of Europe? From Paris to Alsace, from the USSR to Berlin, discover, day by day, the...
The French Colonial Empire - From History to Legacy...
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The French Colonial Empire - From History to Legacy (19th–21st centuries)

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, France established itself as a major colonial power (Maghreb, Africa, Asia, Oceania), driven by a policy of expansion deeply rooted in its political, economic and cultural history. This work addresses the debates it has sparked: the effects of these policies in metropolitan France and in the colonised countries, the...
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German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler
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German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler

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The history of German women's resistance to Hitler has spread mainly through the emblematic figure of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. But many women committed themselves against the National Socialist regime: lawyers, feminists, communists, aristocrats, members of the Red Orchestra, and Protestants alike. This book retraces the as little-known as...
The Women of Block 10 - Medical Experiments at Auschwitz
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The Women of Block 10 - Medical Experiments at Auschwitz

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The SS sent a thousand Jewish women from across Europe, including around 130 French women, to Block 10 at Auschwitz. On these women, considered inferior by the Nazi regime, gynaecologist Carl Clauberg tested a special sterilisation method. Other Nazi doctors also used this block for their experiments on human beings. This book is dedicated to their...
Napoleon Against Pius VII – Or How to Kidnap a Pope
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Napoleon Against Pius VII – Or How to Kidnap a Pope

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1799. Following the coup of 18 Brumaire, Bonaparte, now First Consul, made restoring civil peace in France and reintroducing the Catholic faith his priority. To that end he needed to renew ties with Rome, where a new pope, Pius VII, had just been elected. After long and difficult negotiations between the two men, the Concordat would revive the Church in...
50 Historical Dates of Ancient Rome
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50 Historical Dates of Ancient Rome

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Founded in 753 BC according to legend, Rome was at that time merely a modest village in Latium, before becoming — five centuries later — the hegemonic power of Italy and then, at the dawn of the common era, the capital of a Mediterranean empire that was constantly expanding while also seeking to integrate the peoples it had conquered. These 50 dates offer...
50 Historic Dates of Ancient Greece
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50 Historic Dates of Ancient Greece

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What is a "historical date"? In what sense can a moment be described as "historic" in our age, where the term is all too often overused? The question becomes even more complex in the case of Antiquity, where an event that seemed of great importance at the time may appear secondary to us today. Conversely, what was then regarded as a mere episode may now...
The École Militaire – A History in Postcards The École Militaire – A History in Postcards 2
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The École Militaire – A History in Postcards

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The École Militaire – A History in Postcards invites the reader on a journey through time: in Paris, a century ago… These photographs show us the little history, a neighbourhood life and everyday life behind the gates of the École: soldiers at drill, ceremonies, fatigue duties, care given to horses… They also plunge us into the great History: the...
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Léon Degrelle
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Léon Degrelle

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Truths and legends of the "Führex". Until his death, Léon Degrelle (1906–1994), leader of the fascist movement Rex, founder of the SS Wallonia Legion, and the last European National Socialist leader, represented for the far right the icon before whom one had to be anointed, on the occasion of a "pilgrimage" to Spain where he had taken refuge in 1945. This...
With Napoleon – Journal
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With Napoleon – Journal

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One of the greatest testimonies on Napoleon. Throughout his reign, Napoleon received Pierre-Louis Roederer — accomplice in the Brumaire coup, Councillor of State and later Senator of the Empire — a countless number of times in his study. This figure had taken to noting down scrupulously, often on the very same evening, the substance of these meetings,...
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CORSICA UNDER THE TEST OF WAR 1939–1943
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CORSICA UNDER THE TEST OF WAR 1939–1943

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October 1943: Corsica became the first part of French territory to be liberated. This decisive action for the subsequent operations — since the Allies would be able from this strategic base to organise their landings in Italy — was achieved largely through the action of the maquis fighters. Since 1939, the war had been a distinct experience for the island...
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THE RICE PADDIES OF SUFFERING – French Combatants in Indochina (1945–1954)

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From 1945 to 1954, thousands of young Frenchmen embarked for Indochina. Most of them enlisted in the conflict not to "bash Vietnamese", as has too often been claimed, but for economic reasons: finding work in a country devastated by the Second World War was extremely difficult at the time. Through an investigation drawing on the moving testimonies of...
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Repression in Franco's Spain 1939–1975

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Repression in Franco's Spain 1939–1975: from memorial propaganda to historical reality A serious study of Francoist post-war repression had been missing. This work is, without doubt, a major milestone in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War. Having gained access to the previously unpublished archival holdings of the Cuerpo Jurídico Militar...
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Research Dossier 2024 – Les Carnets de la Sabretache

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In this 2024 research dossier, put together by the members of the Sabretache, you will be able to: - Relive day by day the first two sieges of the Flanders campaign in 1744 - Discover the "Hoffmann" collection of the Sabretache library - Travel to Guadeloupe in 1802 through the letters of a conscript - Study the uniforms of the Foot Artillery of the...
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Medical Service - Premier Empire - Notebook of the Elite Company

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Marc Morillon and Benoit Lorenzini have combined their talents and research in this notebook dedicated to the Medical Service under the First Empire. The fate of the members of the Grande Armée's medical service is rarely discussed. We have the opportunity to introduce one of these men who devoted his life to the well-being of his fellow citizens:...
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The Nazi World - 1919-1945

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On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the Reich. Since 1919 and the trauma of the Great War, the Nazis had developed a worldview whose only originality lay in its racist coherence and utopian impetus. They knew how to exploit the context of a major crisis — that of 1929 — to subjugate minds and seize power. Power was handed to them,...
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The First Algerian War - A History of Conquest and Resistance, 1830-1852

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The "first Algerian war" began on 14 June 1830 at 4 o'clock in the morning, when the first French soldier set foot at Sidi-Ferruch. The conquerors immediately encountered a resistance force they had not anticipated, whose most emblematic figure remains the Emir Abd el-Kader. Two decades of confrontation of extreme intensity and violence followed. Marshal...
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1945 - Chronicle of a Pivotal Year

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8 May 1945 marked, after weeks of battles on an enormous scale (the Ardennes, northern Italy, East Prussia, Berlin…), the end of the Second World War. In Europe. For four more months, the Asian continent would remain the theatre of a conflict of terrifying proportions, one that would only end with the use of an apocalyptic weapon: the atomic bomb. An...
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The Marines - History of an American Myth

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This work allows the reader to discover the rich history of an elite corps that has become inescapable yet remains almost entirely unknown. Indeed, no one in France is familiar with its first hundred and fifty years before 1918 and the Battle of Belleau Wood; no one knows that it was initially scorned, mocked for its mediocre performance, cut back,...
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Lee Miller - Saint-Malo Under Siege. August 1944 Lee Miller - Saint-Malo Under Siege. August 1944 2
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Lee Miller - Saint-Malo Under Siege. August 1944

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Official catalogue of the exhibition "Lee Miller, Saint-Malo Under Siege. August 1944." organised by the City of Saint-Malo from 18 June to 29 September 2024. This work constitutes an exceptional testament on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation. «The only photographer for miles around, I now had my own personal war.» Having landed at...
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General Olry - Victor of the Alps - June 1940

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A graduate of the École Polytechnique and an artilleryman, René Olry (1880–1944) belongs to that category of soldiers who, with equal distinction, earn the admiration of their superiors, their peers and their subordinates. A man of character, he combined exceptional intellectual abilities with unwavering determination. A specialist in mountain operations,...
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La Carlingue - The French Gestapo of 93, Rue Lauriston

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From 1940 to 1944, a gang of criminals led by Henri Lafont and Pierre Bonny — a petty swindler allied with a corrupt detective — placed themselves in the service of the German occupier, spreading terror and chaos across the French capital. Protected by the Nazis, this criminal organisation entered history under the name of the French Gestapo of the rue...
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Castelnau - The Vanished Marshal 1851-1944
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Castelnau - The Vanished Marshal 1851-1944

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General de Castelnau spans a century of French military and political history. Regarded by his contemporaries as one of the fathers of victory in the First World War, he fell victim to political machinations tied to his reputation as a Catholic conservative. Nicknamed the "booted friar" by Clemenceau, he was three times denied the marshal's baton that...
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World War II Operations in 100 Maps
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World War II Operations in 100 Maps

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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

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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...
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History of the Ninjas - Henchmen and Spies in Samurai Japan

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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 of the 1940 Turmoil

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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...
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A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the Present Day

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« 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...
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French Nationalist Movements 1920–1945

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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...
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THE CATHAR DRAMA - A Tragic Epic

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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...
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AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World

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"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...
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THE STRATEGY OF DESTRUCTION - Allied Bombing in France, 1944

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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

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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...
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Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP

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« 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...
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14-18 - OREP

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"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

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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...
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The History of the 14 July Military Parade – In Paris, Since 1880

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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

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€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...
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Constantinople, 1453 - "The City Has Fallen!"

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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

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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

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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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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

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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...
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DE GAULLE - 14 June 1944, A Historic Day

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€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

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€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

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€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...
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Saint-Vaast Under Occupation, Saint-Vaast First Liberated Port – Testimony of Daily Life

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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

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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

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€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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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€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

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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

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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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1913 - Towards the Great War
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1913 - Towards the Great War

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The year 1913 is the one in which Europe's destiny tipped towards the Great War. In French society, tensions were mounting and the threat of conflict loomed: it was the "difficult hour" described by Georges Clemenceau. While as early as January the successful play — with its notes of revanche — by Gaston Leroux, Alsace!, was running, the newspaper...
THE 11TH ZOUAVES IN THE 1939-1940 CAMPAIGN
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THE 11TH ZOUAVES IN THE 1939-1940 CAMPAIGN

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€23.51
AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH At mobilisation, at the end of August 1939, the 11th Zouave Regiment was formed from reservists aged 24 to 30, in the Belley region. On 4 November it joined the 2nd DINA and trained behind the Maginot Line, then in the Valenciennes sector. This is where it found itself on 10 May 1940. Committed to the Battle of the...
The Nazi 5th Column - Myth and Reality 1933-1944
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The Nazi 5th Column - Myth and Reality 1933-1944

L20240069
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Did a true "5th column", in the manner of that put into practice by the Francoist general Mola during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, beneath the walls of Madrid, actually exist at the outset of the Second World War, activated by the German invader? It may seem self-evident that the notion of a fifth column did indeed feature in the Nazi plans for the...
Diên Biên Phu - The Lessons of a Defeat
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Diên Biên Phu - The Lessons of a Defeat

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€21.80
The long ordeal of the French Expeditionary Corps, from Diên Biên Phu to its departure from Indochina. 7 May 1954. The fall of Diên Biên Phu. The Viet Minh's spectacular victory after fifty-six days of fighting seals France's departure from a part of the world where it had been present for more than a century. Seventy years on, Pierre Servent does not...
Aviation at Diên Biên Phu - From the Genesis to the Fall...
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Aviation at Diên Biên Phu - From the Genesis to the Fall of the Entrenched Camp...

L20240062
€35.07
From 20 November 1953 to 7 May 1954, French aircrews were progressively pushed to — and beyond — the limits of human endurance. Without the crews of the Armée de l'Air, the Aéronavale, the Aviation Légère d'Observation d'Artillerie, the requisitioned civilian airlines, and American pilots who were heirs to the Flying Tigers, the entrenched camp at Diên...
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Oradour-sur-Glane, 10 June 1944 - History of a Massacre in Nazi Europe

L20240061
€21.71
10 June 1944. Four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges, was methodically wiped off the map by the SS division "Das Reich". The death toll would reach 643 victims, more than 200 of them children. Since then, the ruins of the martyred village, preserved as they stood, have become one of the most...
The British Empire at War - 1857-1947
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The British Empire at War - 1857-1947

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June 1897. England celebrates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The highlight of the festivities takes the form of a memorable military parade in London, reminding the British that their country stands at the head of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Its representatives are all there, dressed for the occasion in their finest regalia: the...
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America at War - 1933-1946 America at War - 1933-1946 2
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America at War - 1933-1946

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The giant awakens: the United States in the Second World War. The United States, although emerging strengthened from the First World War, subsequently turned inward, allowing Asia and Europe to go up in flames one after the other. One might therefore assume that the war only truly entered the thoughts and daily lives of Americans from 7 December 1941, the...
LIVING WITH THE GRANDE ARMÉE - Being a Soldier in the Age...
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LIVING WITH THE GRANDE ARMÉE - Being a Soldier in the Age of Napoleon

L20240057
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In fifteen years, the Napoleonic Grande Armée, an unmatched war machine, won more victories than any other army before or after it... Austerlitz, Jena, the Moskova, Leipzig and Waterloo have already generated much ink, but these battles are often analysed from the standpoint of strategy and tactics. Yet the Napoleonic Wars were above all a human story....
HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal...
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HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal Secretary

L20240056
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Hitler's best-known secretary to date is Traudi Junge, owing to her memoirs which inspired the film Der Untergang (Downfall) about the dictator's final days. But she did not enter his service until January 1943, whereas Christa Schroeder had been there since 1933 and would remain until 20 April 1945. For twelve years, she accompanied her "chief" on all...
The Cantinières - From the Revolution to the Third Republic The Cantinières - From the Revolution to the Third Republic 2
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The Cantinières - From the Revolution to the Third Republic

L20240052
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In our military history, the cantinières offer material for a subject as unusual as it is difficult to define. Do they represent a French exception? "At no period did European armies, save those of France, have vivandières in uniform attached to regiments and following armies onto the field of battle," states the 1890 pamphlet "Les Cantinières...
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44 EXTRAORDINARY D-DAY DESTINIES Volume 2
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44 EXTRAORDINARY D-DAY DESTINIES Volume 2

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Following the success of his first volume, author and journalist Philippe Bertin unveils new stories of celebrated and anonymous heroes in his book 44 Extraordinary D-Day Destinies – Volume 2. Through beautifully illustrated pages, captivating stories await discovery: the incredible — and for some, truly surprising — destinies of men and women who crossed...
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HONOUR IN THE FEMININE - Portraits of Women in the Service of Free France

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1940. Refusing the armistice requested by Marshal Pétain following the country's collapse, General de Gaulle made a solemn appeal from London on 18 June to rally the French — military and civilian alike — who wished to resume the fight against the German invader. From November onwards, the small Free France army thus formed opened its recruitment to...
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MINE CLEARANCE IN NORMANDY 1944–1948

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Across France, more than 500,000 hectares of land had been mined during the Second World War. Nearly 6 million mines were laid on Field Marshal Rommel's orders as part of the Atlantic Wall alone, to defend the French beaches against invasion. The Normandy coastline proved severely affected by this "mine warfare." With Liberation came the time for...
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The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648

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Between 1618 and 1648, Europe was ravaged by war. No synthesis has until now shown with such clarity the violence and the scope of this civil and European war. The first clashes of the Thirty Years' War broke out in Bohemia in 1618, with the Defenestration of Prague. What at first appears to be an act of rebellion by Protestant-leaning nobles against the...
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1945, Hiroshima - Source Images

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A work that catalogues and analyses the photographs taken on the day and in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It retraces the context in which the images were taken, identifies their authors — Japanese and American alike — and shows how they were disseminated and reinvested in culture. This work catalogues and analyses the...
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The Military Revolution of Year II, 1794 between Flanders and the Moselle

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The campaign of 1794 is first and foremost that of Year II (21 September 1793 – 20 September 1794). Unprecedented in its scale of men, challenges and materiel, it mobilises the efforts of the young Republic. It is also a period in which grand operational plans mature; the "système général" will be their synthesis and the matrix for the major campaigns to...
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THE WAFFEN-SS IN COMBAT 1933 - 1945

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The Waffen-SS is one of the most curiosity-provoking subjects in military history. From a small, highly elitist Praetorian guard embodying concepts of Germanic "racial purity", it ended up drawing in approximately one million increasingly eclectic combatants whose military quality ranged from elite to mediocre and who, alongside remarkable troops, fielded...
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History and Art: Berezina 1812. A Tribute to the 126th RI - Carnet de la Sabretache

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The only unit of the current French Army to bear the battle honour "La Bérézina 1812" on its colours, the 126th Infantry Regiment celebrated the 210th anniversary of the event on 25 November 2022, beneath the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile. This volume recounts its role during the crossing of the Berezina, in the course of which the 126th Line Regiment...
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THE QUASI-WAR - The conflict between France and the United States, 1796-1800

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Who knows that France and the United States went to war? In the second half of the 1790s, these two formerly allied powers entered into open conflict. Although war was never officially declared, French and Americans clashed in naval engagements on both sides of the Atlantic, seizing each other's vessels in large numbers and causing several thousand dead...
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HISTORY OF THE SCHWERE PANZER-ABTEILUNG 654

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History of the schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 654 — Russia 1943 – Normandy 1944 – Alsace 1944–1945 Discover the complete history of the schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 654 during its fighting on Ferdinands in Russia in 1943, then on the legendary Jagdpanther in the summer of 1944 in Normandy, during operations in Alsace 1944–1945 and through to the final...
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DICTIONARY OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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DICTIONARY OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR

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This monumental work, conceived by the foremost French and foreign specialists under the direction of Jean-Marie Moeglin, offers the most complete picture yet of a century-long conflict that shaped the history of two nations, France and England, between the 14th and 15th centuries. The Hundred Years' War has long suffered from an old and narrow...
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THE RED ARMY - Innovator, Liberator, Predator
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THE RED ARMY - Innovator, Liberator, Predator

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History of the Red Army… in blood It was born in 1918 amid the pain and urgency of the worst of civil wars; it was cherished by and complicit with the worst of regimes — Stalin's — yet also its victim, seeing its best commanders tortured and shot; it was able to renew military thinking and gave itself the greatest means ever assembled. And yet, the Red...
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF FRANCE

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Thousands of discoveries constantly emerge under the archaeologists' trowel. The remains of dwellings, tombs, sanctuaries and workshops enrich our heritage as much as our understanding of past societies. Never before had these archives of the soil — from the Rhine to Finistère, from the Bay of the Somme to Corsica and the overseas territories — been...
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DE GAULLE IN NORMANDY 1943 - 1967

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General de Gaulle's ancestry is rooted in Normandy since the Middle Ages. One Richard de Gaulle can be found to have served under Philippe Auguste in the thirteenth century. A certain Jean de Gaulle was governor of the city of Vire at the beginning of the fourteenth century. De Gaulle himself stayed at Sainte-Adresse from 1921, visiting his parents there...
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History of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1948–1961 – From the Rice Fields of...

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The rise and fall of an elite regiment caught in the turmoil of the decolonisation wars. The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment, which entered posterity for having been the spearhead of the " generals' revolt " in Algiers that prompted its dissolution by General de Gaulle on 30 April 1961, occupies a singular place in the history of the French Foreign Legion....
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THE BOCAGE BREAKOUT Volume 3 – 5–20 August 1944

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5–20 August 1944: Vassy – Tinchebray – Flers – Putanges Following the success of the first two volumes, which minutely detailed the breakout of the XXX and VIII British Corps through the bocage in the second half of July 1944, here is the final instalment of this series, describing day by day, hour by hour, the advance of British troops towards Argentan...
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VERSAILLES 1939-1945 - A Château in the Crosshairs

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DURING THE CONFLICT OF 1939-1945, the Château de Versailles and its gardens changed in appearance the better to protect themselves. Deemed particularly at risk, the monument took on a «war footing» as early as the summer of 1939 and gradually resumed its former appearance over the following years. By turns barricaded, occupied and then liberated, this...
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The Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism Vol. 1: 1941

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In this new work, author Eric Le Clanche presents 100 biographies of Volunteers from the Légion des Volontaires Français against Bolshevism, with the distinction that all were enlistees of 1941. This opens Volume 1: 1941 — The Legion of French Volunteers «On the road to Moscow and victory». A work arranged chronologically, from enlistment to trial. The...
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Navy - History & Traditions - Carnet de la Sabretache

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All things considered, la Royale has only four centuries of history, having emerged at the beginning of the 17th century within the framework of France's policy of power and influence, conceived and developed by Richelieu. Over those four centuries, the French navy not only sailed and explored every sea and ocean on the globe, but also fully mastered the...
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THE PREPARATION FOR D-DAY - An incredible adventure
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THE PREPARATION FOR D-DAY - An incredible adventure

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The Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 constitute one of the most formidable military operations of all time. They required manpower and preparations on a scale previously unknown in military history. The course of the operations has given rise to a wealth of works, with the battle for the Norman beaches having been the major subject of predilection for...
RWANDA (6 April 1994 – 19 July 1994): The War, the... RWANDA (6 April 1994 – 19 July 1994): The War, the... 2
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RWANDA (6 April 1994 – 19 July 1994): The War, the Genocide and France's Responsibility

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What happened in Rwanda between 6 April and 19 July 1994? What share of responsibility does each of the national and international actors bear for the genocide of the Tutsi? From the very opening of the book, in order to dispel any ambiguity, a table of a scale of crimes on page 21 rules out any reasoning that would equate the genocide of the Tutsi...
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Madagascar Campaign 1895–1896 - Carnet de la Sabretache Madagascar Campaign 1895–1896 - Carnet de la Sabretache 2
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Madagascar Campaign 1895–1896 - Carnet de la Sabretache

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Coming just a few years after the acquisition of Indochina and the Tonkin campaign, and barely three years after the conquest of Dahomey, the Madagascar expedition of 1895 forms part of a set of offensive actions reflecting, on the part of the French government — largely under the initial impetus of Jules Ferry — a will towards colonial expansion and a...
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THE 36TH AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION "TEXAS DIVISION" THE 36TH AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION "TEXAS DIVISION" 2
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THE 36TH AMERICAN INFANTRY DIVISION "TEXAS DIVISION"

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The 36th American Infantry Division "Texas Division". The Allied liberation units — Italy, Provence, Rhône Valley, Vosges, Germany Delivery from 22 September This work is the only one in French recounting the history of the 36th Infantry Division of the United States Army, from its creation to the present day. This major unit, nicknamed the "Texas...
1940: THE REASONS FOR A DEFEAT
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1940: THE REASONS FOR A DEFEAT

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To say that the campaign of May–June 1940 has generated an enormous amount of writing is an understatement: rarely has an event in French history left such a mark on our country. Several reasons can be identified: first and foremost, the French Army, which had emerged victorious from the First World War, was forced to lay down its arms after barely two...
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History of the Flag of France and Beyond

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The history of a passion as ancient as it is unwavering. For all nations, the flag remains the most important and most powerful emblem in the minds of men, whether military or civilian. Did not Claudel say: " There are only two things to do with a flag: either brandish it at arm's length or press it passionately against one's heart "? Its history is...
THE 596th AIRBORNE COMPANY in World War II – Aly Daly and... THE 596th AIRBORNE COMPANY in World War II – Aly Daly and... 2
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THE 596th AIRBORNE COMPANY in World War II – Aly Daly and His 140 Thieves

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In the winter of 1998, veteran Ernie Kosan published an appeal in the 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company newsletter ''Wings", stating that he was waiting for information and photographs to write the history of his unit. Only a few veterans had responded to his call. He wrote: "I can't make much progress on the history without some memories, memoirs,...
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PARATROOPERS OF THE 14th RCP IN ALGERIA - FROM DOUBT TO REVOLT (SEPTEMBER 1959 - APRIL...

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During the Algerian War, the paratroopers were at the forefront of the fighting. They faced the most hardened moudjahidines in the most remote djebels. Yet, nearly six decades later, does anyone still remember that some of these elite units had conscripts making up the majority of their ranks? Such was the case of the 14th Régiment de chasseurs...
YVELINES - COMBATS 1944 Vol. 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944 YVELINES - COMBATS 1944 Vol. 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944 2
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YVELINES - COMBATS 1944 Vol. 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944

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History & Chronology of the fighting during the liberation of the Yvelines Volume 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944  The events of the liberation of Paris are well known. Those of the Grand West at the arrival of the Allies in the Île-de-France are far less so. On 17 August, Field Marshal Model, the new commander of the Western armies, passed through Paris to...
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The Stalin-Hitler Collaboration, 10 March 1939–22 June 1941. August–September 1944

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Since the German invasion of the USSR, Soviet propaganda — and in its wake Soviet historiography — has presented the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as the fruit of Stalin's supreme cunning: faced with France's and Britain's refusal to come to an understanding with the Soviet Union against the Nazi peril, Stalin supposedly chose to buy time in order to better...
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CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part III Bloody Drop Zone

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This work traces in images the epic of the 101st Airborne Division in its first combat jump in History. This third volume in a series of five works totalling more than 3,000 pages and 4,000 photographs is devoted to the first hours of D-Day on the cursed Drop Zone — DZ D, Saint-Côme-du-Mont. Organized by the locations of the 101st Airborne's combat...
BEFORE MEIN KAMPF - The Formative Years of Adolf Hitler
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BEFORE MEIN KAMPF - The Formative Years of Adolf Hitler

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In Mein Kampf, the autobiography he wrote in 1924–1925, Hitler presents himself as a perfect self-taught man with a fully formed worldview. Yet the man in his thirties who entered politics at the end of the First World War had no fixed opinions, nor even strong antisemitic convictions. Drawing on Hitler's earliest texts — some translated here for the...
THE THREE DAYS THAT BROUGHT DOWN FRANCE - 11–13 June 1940
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THE THREE DAYS THAT BROUGHT DOWN FRANCE - 11–13 June 1940

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When France collapsed in June 1940, attention has often focused solely on the cabinet meeting of 16 June in Bordeaux, where President of the Council Paul Reynaud stepped aside to make way for Marshal Pétain. Yet this book, built on all available archives in Paris and Tours, shows that the Reynaud government — which left the capital amid the chaos of the...
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THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS - The Untold History of Native Americans in the U.S. Army

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Throughout his career as a foreign correspondent, Emmanuel Razavi had the opportunity to spend time on numerous occasions among the Native Americans of Canada and the United States. Over the years, he made friends among the Sioux, the Mohawks, the Cheyennes and the Navajos. Thanks to them, he was able to obtain exceptional interviews with the last...
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THE BEAR AND THE FOX - An Immediate History of the War in Ukraine

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Since February 2022, each of us has been bombarded with information about the war in Ukraine — fragmented, piecemeal, often contradictory information, in which it is impossible to tell truth from falsehood. Since its outbreak, Michel Goya and Jean Lopez have focused on this conflict — the former as a military commentator for a rolling news channel, the...
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FINLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1938–1948
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FINLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1938–1948

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Between Stalin and Hitler: an unjustly overlooked and highly instructive history. This work deals with the history of Finland during the Second World War, from the first crises of 1938 to the signing in 1948 of a bilateral treaty with Moscow. For the country, the winter of 1939–1940 began badly: attacked in late November by the USSR, it seemed on the...
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LIBERTY! FRANCE'S DECISIVE ROLE IN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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LIBERTY! FRANCE'S DECISIVE ROLE IN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

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The role of the French in North America in the 18th century is largely unknown. Yet they were to occupy a pivotal position in the transformation of that territory into a major political entity for the two centuries that followed. Indeed, a former British general, George Washington, sought the help of yesterday's enemy — France — to assist the American...
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ART FROM THE FRONT - WORKS OF ART FROM THE WEHRMACHT
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ART FROM THE FRONT - WORKS OF ART FROM THE WEHRMACHT

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This previously unpublished volume brings together nearly one hundred paintings by Wehrmacht war artists. Most of them members of a specialised unit established on Hitler's orders, the artists sent to the front were tasked with bearing witness to the fighting. The works they produced, far removed from any form of propaganda, bear witness to the tragedy of...
ROMANIA AND THE HOLOCAUST
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ROMANIA AND THE HOLOCAUST

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In the late 1930s, nearly 760,000 Jews lived in Romania. By 1945, only 375,000 remained. Based on privileged access to the secret archives of the Romanian government, this book offers an unprecedented analysis of thousands of documents deliberately concealed until the 1990s. Drawing on archival records, reports, survivors' memoirs, and private letters,...
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THE BLACK ORDER – Edged Weapons, Traditions & Symbolism THE BLACK ORDER – Edged Weapons, Traditions & Symbolism 2
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THE BLACK ORDER – Edged Weapons, Traditions & Symbolism

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Following the success of L'Ordre Noir, Allgemeine-SS 1925-1945, an illustrated encyclopedia dedicated to the "total society" project envisioned by the SS, we wished to explore the subject further with this new volume. Jean-François Pelletier and Georges Bernage each authored a section of this work. One presents a detailed study of the Order's edged...
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ATLAS OF WARS - The Early Modern Period: 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries

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Marignano, Lepanto, Vauban, Peter the Great, Bonaparte... These names resonate throughout the history of modern warfare and have endured across the ages: the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries remain the great centuries of innovation in the art of war. Modern warfare swept across land and sea. No part of the globe was spared. The Europeans, in their colonial...
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FROM THE PORTE DE LA CHAPELLE TO INDOCHINA - The Journey of a Young Frenchman

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Contrary to what one might think, the history of the 33ème W-SS Charlemagne is not set in stone following the writings of Saint-Loup and Mabire. The epic adventure of the men who were its soldiers forms the substrate of revelations; many points remain unexplained, the most emblematic being the execution of 12 French SS men at Bad Reichenhall on 8 May 1945...
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The Egyptian Campaign 1798–1801

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The Egyptian Campaign 1798–1801: The Genesis of the Sons of Mars This new book in the Épopées collection takes you to Egypt in the footsteps of those sons of Mars, the future phalanx of the armies of the Empire. Live the account of an unimaginable epic: that of the soldiers of the First Republic, those who had already shared so many laurels with the...
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101 FORMIDABLE TACTICIANS 101 FORMIDABLE TACTICIANS 2
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101 FORMIDABLE TACTICIANS

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From Geronimo to Rommel, from Napoleon to Giap, discover the 100 greatest tacticians in History. These extraordinary commanders capable of turning the tide on the battlefield and writing History. Produced under the auspices of the École de guerre – Terre, this work brings together for the first time the 100 most formidable tacticians. Four illustrated...
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THE FAR EAST SERVICE ACTION 1944–1945 – First... THE FAR EAST SERVICE ACTION 1944–1945 – First... 2
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THE FAR EAST SERVICE ACTION 1944–1945 – First Paratroopers in Indochina

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In Indochina, in late 1944 and early 1945, the internal resistance, the emissaries of Fighting France and the DGER's parachute commandos — supported by the British Force 136 — were actively preparing to confront the Japanese adversary when the Japanese coup of 9 March 1945 jeopardised the takeover of the territory by the Provisional Government of the...
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Field Marshal Model – Hitler's "Fireman"
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Field Marshal Model – Hitler's "Fireman"

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France, Ukraine, Belarus, Moscow, Kursk, Leningrad, Warsaw, Market-Garden, Aachen, the Ardennes, the Ruhr: Walter Model was present in every campaign of the Third Reich. Known for his fanatical devotion to Hitler — who had brought him into the team he assembled at the turning point of the war to replace the traditional officer corps — this hard, rough and...
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The COS – History of the French Special Forces
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The COS – History of the French Special Forces

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The Commandement des opérations spéciales (COS) was established by a decree of Defence Minister Pierre Joxe on 24 June 1992. Based in Paris, this joint headquarters is responsible for conceiving, planning and conducting military special forces operations. These missions, which fall outside the framework of conventional military action, aim to achieve...
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The French Army – Two Centuries of Commitment

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On 14 June 1830, 30,000 French soldiers landed in Algeria and set about its conquest. More than one hundred and eighty years later, the operations in Mali from 2013 to 2022 saw the deployment of a force that closely resembled the army of 1830: small in size, professional, expert in overseas operations, in counter-insurgency as well as counter-terrorism....
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THEY LED THE ALLIES TO VICTORY – Patton, de Lattre and Their Peers

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What does daily life look like for the generals commanding tens of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in 1944–1945, facing the German armies? How do they establish their leadership among their subordinates? How do they influence their superiors? Do they look after their men, and do they care about the human cost of operations? Do they make good...
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Gamelin or the Constrained Strategy

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The name of Maurice Gamelin inevitably calls to mind the generalissimo held responsible for the defeat of 1940, a military disaster of incalculable consequences. His condemnation seems beyond appeal. Yet a thorough study of the man tends to challenge many certainties about his actual culpability. Casting a dispassionate eye — far removed from bitter...
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III.PANZER-KORPS — The Third SS Germanic Volunteer Armoured Corps

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In the spring of 1940, when Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, then the Netherlands and Belgium, the Waffen-SS opened recruiting offices there, with mixed — if not mediocre — results. But when the Third Reich launched its war against the Soviet Union, the "crusade against Bolshevism" rekindled enthusiasm for a recruitment drive that had stagnated. Thus,...
1800 - From Marengo to Hohenlinden, the Final Year of a... 1800 - From Marengo to Hohenlinden, the Final Year of a... 2
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1800 - From Marengo to Hohenlinden, the Final Year of a Century of Blood

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A century of blood comes to a close. Begun with the War of the Spanish Succession under the reign of an ageing Louis XIV, it ends with the American War of Independence and those of the early years of the Revolution. France now had at its head a "triumvirate." All, save Bonaparte, were new men who had played no part in the political manoeuvres of the...
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FIELD MARSHALS OF THE REICH: EXCEPTIONAL CAREERS
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FIELD MARSHALS OF THE REICH: EXCEPTIONAL CAREERS

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For the first time in the French language, this volume presents the biographies of the twenty-eight field marshals and indispensable figures of the Second World War. With nearly three hundred archival images and photographs, this album offers a synthesis of the great commanders of the Wehrmacht, from its resurgence in the mid-1930s to its collapse in...
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The Rochambelles: Ambulance Drivers of Fighting France...
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The Rochambelles: Ambulance Drivers of Fighting France 1943–1945

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Florence Conrad, a wealthy American who had served as a nurse during the Great War, formed an ambulance unit in 1943. With funds she raised, she purchased nineteen Dodge vehicles and recruited the first volunteers in New York. These women, sometimes very young, were determined to liberate France and shrank from nothing. In 1943, the Rochambelles — who...
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US. GO HOME - The U.S. Military in France, 1945-1968
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US. GO HOME - The U.S. Military in France, 1945-1968

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In 1951, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, hero of the liberation of Europe, returned to Paris to command NATO forces. The US Army built a huge infrastructure across France to provide logistical support to the US Seventh Army in Germany during the Cold War. The US Air Force also sent aircraft to France to provide a nuclear deterrent to Soviet aggression. By...
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THE NEUVILLOIS DURING "THE TERRIBLE YEAR" 1870-1871
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THE NEUVILLOIS DURING "THE TERRIBLE YEAR" 1870-1871

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September 1870... ... Suddenly, as if waking roughly from a good night's sleep, Neuville and Chilleurs-aux-Bois, small towns in the Loiret, were plunged headlong into the War of 1870 and found themselves brushing against history. December 1870... ... Less than three months later, Neuville and Chilleurs, having tried to resist the war and its share of...
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THE DOCTORS OF AUSCHWITZ
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THE DOCTORS OF AUSCHWITZ

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27 January 1945. Soviet troops enter the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time and discover in horror the largest extermination camp of the Third Reich. While 60,000 prisoners had been evacuated at their approach, only 7,000 starving patients remained on site. How did they manage to survive this hell? What was the exact role of high-ranking...
THE GREAT ATLAS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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THE GREAT ATLAS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

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A reference work for understanding the fascinating period of the Middle Ages. Spanning from the 5th to the 15th century — covering nearly 1,000 years of history — the Middle Ages were long dominated by superstitions and erroneous beliefs, reducing them to a period of obscurantism, regression and violence. A dark age between two golden eras: Antiquity and...
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LA REVOLTE DES CENTURIONS - An Officer at the Algiers Putsch

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The centurions refers to those French officers of the 1950s. Many served in Indochina and all fought in Algeria. Pierre Montagnon is one of them. From 1954, he fights alongside the parachute légionnaires to keep Algeria French. In early 1961, the Centurions are more committed than ever to "Algérie française" , while the political power in Paris, embodied...
FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR IN 1940
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FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR IN 1940

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In the summer of 1940, millions of French people began writing — to their mayors, sub-prefects and prefects, but also to international organisations and even to the Pope — to find out what had become of their father, their husband, their children. In barely six weeks, between 13 May and 22 June 1940, military defeat turned into a rout, and captivity now...
STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Vol. 3 Nord - Prinz Eugen... STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Vol. 3 Nord - Prinz Eugen... 2
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STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Vol. 3 Nord - Prinz Eugen - Florian Geyer

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Continuing his series on the Sturmgeschütze of the Waffen-SS, in this 3rd volume Pierre Tiquet examines three major formations engaged on often secondary theatres of operations: two mountain divisions — the 6th and 7th — and one cavalry division — the 8th. Less frequently discussed, they are nonetheless fascinating and were confronted with hard-fought...
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BLACK AND BROWN - An Illustrated History of Fascism and...
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BLACK AND BROWN - An Illustrated History of Fascism and Nazism 1919-1946

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In 2016, Jean-Christophe Buisson published " 1917, the Year That Changed the World ", a landmark album that combined a global narrative — through a richly written, annotated chronology — with rare and abundant illustration, punctuated by some twenty portraits of leading cultural, political and historical figures often overlooked by posterity. The work was...
THE MYTHS OF THE GRANDE ARMÉE - The True History of the...
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THE MYTHS OF THE GRANDE ARMÉE - The True History of the Imperial War

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Shaped by the heroic narrative imposed by Napoleon and then by the cohort of memoirists of the Consulate and the Empire, the history of the " Grande " Armée rests on a number of legends that have become accepted truths for the public, relayed by a complaisant historiography. Led by an invincible genius adored by his grognards, a temple of heroism and an...
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FIGHTING IN A DICTATORSHIP - 1944 - The Wehrmacht Facing...
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FIGHTING IN A DICTATORSHIP - 1944 - The Wehrmacht Facing the Landings

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A fresh perspective on the Wehrmacht at its twilight. Jean-Luc Leleu sets out to explore the overall functioning of the Wehrmacht as it faced the spectre of defeat. The aim is to understand the actors rather than recount the events. To do so, the German armed forces are examined through the lens of the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944: a...
PANZERDIVISION FRUNDSBERG - UKRAINE - NORMANDY 1944 PANZERDIVISION FRUNDSBERG - UKRAINE - NORMANDY 1944 2
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PANZERDIVISION FRUNDSBERG - UKRAINE - NORMANDY 1944

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Discover the true story of the 10.SS-Panzerdivision "FRUNDSBERG" during the fighting in Ukraine in April 1944 and during the summer of 1944 in Normandy! After several decades of research and with the assistance of over a hundred veterans of the Division, the complete history of the Panzerdivision "Frundsberg" engaged within the II.SS-Panzerkorps alongside...
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HISTORY OF THE POLISH ARMY IN FRANCE - 1939–1940
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HISTORY OF THE POLISH ARMY IN FRANCE - 1939–1940

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Narvik – Maginot Line – Clos du Doubs – Champagne – Breton Redoubt – Fighter groups and patrols – Divisional anti-tank companies Rather than a farewell to arms, the brutal crushing of Poland in 1939 opened a new chapter in her history — that of continuing the fight from abroad. In those dark days, France crystallised all of Poland's hopes. For did not...
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BEYOND BAND OF BROTHERS - THE WAR MEMOIRS OF MAJOR DICK... BEYOND BAND OF BROTHERS - THE WAR MEMOIRS OF MAJOR DICK... 2
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BEYOND BAND OF BROTHERS - THE WAR MEMOIRS OF MAJOR DICK WINTERS

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Reprinting — Delivery late May 2024 The book that inspired the TV series BAND OF BROTHERS about the 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne, Easy Company commanded by MAJOR DICK WINTERS, at last translated into French. Worldwide famous since the broadcast of the hit series HBO Band of Brothers produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Major Dick Winters was a...
THE SENEGALESE TIRAILLEURS - From colonial subject to...
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THE SENEGALESE TIRAILLEURS - From colonial subject to soldier - From 1857 to the...

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The first comprehensive history of a legendary army corps. Created by imperial decree in July 1857, the first battalion of Tirailleurs is Senegalese in name only: this military corps formed within the French colonial empire in fact brought together the entire "force noire" — that is, the African soldiers of colour who fought for France. While studies on...
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The Purges of the French Army 1940–1966
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The Purges of the French Army 1940–1966

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From 1940 to 1966, the French Army underwent three successive purges: the first under Marshal Pétain's Vichy government, the second from 1943 through the years following the Liberation, and the last from the end of the Algerian War up to the eve of the May 1968 events. The purge most familiar to the public is the one that affected civilian society at the...
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From Sedan to Sedan: A History of the French Army, 1870–1940
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From Sedan to Sedan: A History of the French Army, 1870–1940

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The only history of the French Army from 1870 to 1940. Gathered here in a single volume are the texts of the new revised, corrected and expanded edition of the landmark work by General André Bourachot. The history of the French Army between the two great defeats that marked it indelibly is presented here in the most detailed and scrupulous manner...
WAR CRIMES - Rouen, 9 June 1940
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WAR CRIMES - Rouen, 9 June 1940

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On the morning of 9 June 1940, the Wehrmacht's 5. Panzerdivision entered Rouen. A few days later, in the square of the Musée des Antiquités, the bodies of two Black men were discovered by municipal services. The following day, not far away, in the gardens of a property on the rue de Bihorel, the bodies of seventeen men murdered by German troops were...
THE TRAGIC END OF FRENCH ALGERIA - The true testimony of... THE TRAGIC END OF FRENCH ALGERIA - The true testimony of... 2
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THE TRAGIC END OF FRENCH ALGERIA - The true testimony of a young military reporter

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Born in Paris in 1938, Jean-Baptiste Ferracci lived through the end of the Second World War in the capital, passing through events in his childhood that hardened him. At the end of 1957, he managed to enter the daily press as a reporter-photographer at the newspaper L'Aurore. He then covered, between news items and magazine features, the major events that...
Intrigues at the French Court - Secrets of History Intrigues at the French Court - Secrets of History 2
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Intrigues at the French Court - Secrets of History

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Resounding coups d'état, knife-edge successions, duels, assassination attempts, conspiracies, poisonings and deceptions… intrigues, whether political or amorous, were never in short supply at the French court! From the poisoning of Agnès Sorel, favourite of Charles VII, to the affaire du collier involving Marie-Antoinette, the assassination of the Duc de...
THE LAST FIRES OF THE ALGERIAN WAR
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THE LAST FIRES OF THE ALGERIAN WAR

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The twilight of French Algeria. This work covers the final months of "l'Empire" and answers many questions that have long remained open. Yes, even before the Évian Accords, contacts between the French State and the FLN took place against the OAS and the populations opposed to independence. Yes again, there was a joint engagement against the maquis of the...
THE 25th PARACHUTE DIVISION - ALGERIA 1956-1961
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THE 25th PARACHUTE DIVISION - ALGERIA 1956-1961

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HISTORY - WEAPONS - UNIFORMS - INSIGNIA - EQUIPMENT This work is dedicated to the 25th Parachute Division in Algeria, spearhead of the French Army's general reserve units in North Africa, whose battles and hopes it shared from 1956 to 1961. Commanded by officers bearing prestigious names intimately linked to the parachute tradition (Gilles, Sauvagnac,...
S.P.Q.R. A History of Ancient Rome
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S.P.Q.R. A History of Ancient Rome

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The definitive history of Rome, from its foundation to its fall, by a world-renowned specialist. How did what was once an insignificant village in central Italy become the seat of an empire dominating the Mediterranean? In this major work, Mary Beard recounts the emergence and then the fall of an unprecedented culture that shaped many of our fundamental...
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DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo 2
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DUNKIRK 1940 - Operation Dynamo

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Four years before the Allied landings in Normandy, the French coastline was the scene of another major episode of the Second World War: Operation Dynamo, far less well known today than D-Day.
Military Emigration 1791–1815 Military Emigration 1791–1815 2
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Military Emigration 1791–1815

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Under the direction of Hughes de Bazouges According to Fouché himself, the emigration involved approximately 150,000 individuals (when France had a population of 20 million), of whom around 20,000 bore arms, from 1791 to 1815, for their God and their King. From the royalist armies raised in 1791–1792 to individual foreign service sometimes extended until...
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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A revised and updated edition of this immense bestseller, in a new, even more fitting large-format coffee-table book edition. 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...
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ANCIENT WARFARE — Forty Centuries of Armed Conflict
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ANCIENT WARFARE — Forty Centuries of Armed Conflict

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The illustrated reference book on ancient warfare Ramesses II, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Attila — who does not know these great conquerors of Antiquity? How did they wage war, how did they besiege cities, how did they feed their soldiers, where did they find the iron for their weapons, the horses for their chariots and the timber for...
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The CNR Programme — National Council of the Resistance
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The CNR Programme — National Council of the Resistance

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The Programme of the National Council of the Resistance was adopted, clandestinely and unanimously, on 15 March 1944 in occupied France. This programme "for France" remains highly relevant today by the force of its ideas. L'Esprit du Temps reissues this founding text with the preface by Stéphane Hessel, one of the signatories of the programme, written in...
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THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY AT WAR 1914-1918 / 1939-1945
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THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY AT WAR 1914-1918 / 1939-1945

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Australia, a dominion little known before the First World War, forged a strong national identity from 1915 onwards. It fought on the battlefields of Gallipoli, at the Dardanelles. It also intervened in the terrible fighting on the French front from 1916, at Fromelles in the Nord, then at Arras and on the Somme. During the Second World War, the Australians...
RÜCKMARSCH 1944, THE GERMAN RETREAT ON ALL FRONTS
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RÜCKMARSCH 1944, THE GERMAN RETREAT ON ALL FRONTS

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At the beginning of June 1944, the Third Reich still extended its domination over the greater part of Europe. The German strategy for the summer of 1944 was all-round defence. This was intended to allow a decisive outcome in the West before returning to the offensive in the East. By the end of the summer, a series of defeats unprecedented in their scale...
The Indochina War - Dictionary The Indochina War - Dictionary 2
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The Indochina War - Dictionary

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€33.18
The Indochina War in dictionary form, by the leading French and foreign specialists The historiography of the Indochina War is enriched for the first time by a dictionary encompassing the essential themes of the conflict that, between 1945 and 1954, marked the beginning of decolonisation for the French Empire. Research carried out by some fifty civilian...
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We the Commune - 18 March 1871 – 28 May 1871
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We the Commune - 18 March 1871 – 28 May 1871

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The Commune of 1871 is presented here through its fighters, women and men, with their stories told in detail. A visual investigation — entertaining, rigorous, and accessible to all — into a founding moment of political modernity. On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris refused the government's decision to capitulate to Prussia, then at war with France. A...
Guerrilla Warfare in 1870 - Resistance and Terror
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Guerrilla Warfare in 1870 - Resistance and Terror

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After the French defeat at Sedan on 2 September 1870, and the fall of the Empire, France continued the war against the coalition of German states. Alongside and often outside the regular French armies, franc-tireurs fought the invader. Faced with an insurgency that intensified from October 1870 onwards, the Prussians and their allies devoted a quarter of...
THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS VOL.3 -... THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS VOL.3 -... 2
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THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS VOL.3 - SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon 500/600

L20210166
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This is a very little-known subject. A Waffen-SS paratrooper battalion was formed in autumn 1943 to carry out special operations missions. The author, a Luftwaffe paratrooper captain (West Germany) holding German, French, and US jump qualifications, who served in the 1960s before becoming a historian, presents a detailed history in three volumes of nearly...
THE MOROCCAN GOUMS 1941–1945 THE MOROCCAN GOUMS 1941–1945 2
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THE MOROCCAN GOUMS 1941–1945

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€42.65
« You may have already heard of the Moroccan goums. The press, French and Anglo-Saxon alike, ever hungry for the picturesque, often depicted them during the war, sometimes with an exaggeration bordering on the extravagant. Since your arrival in Morocco you may have already noticed French non-commissioned officers proudly wearing the sky-blue kepi stamped...
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The Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy – The Great...
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The Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy – The Great School of Command

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€32.23
The book presenting the history of the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan military academy. The Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy today brings together three schools: the École spéciale militaire, the École militaire interarmes and the École militaire des aspirants de Coëtquidan, created in 2020. Whether recruited by competitive examination, promoted from the ranks...
History Almanac – A Year of Captivating and Unusual Features
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History Almanac – A Year of Captivating and Unusual Features

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A year of captivating and unusual features. Travel through time and across the events that have shaped the history of France and beyond. Scientific discoveries, sporting achievements and cultural revolutions will be revealed to the most curious minds, through fascinating anecdotes. Discover, for each day of the year, the historical or unusual events that...
ROYAL ETRANGER - 1921-2021 - A Century of History of the...
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ROYAL ETRANGER - 1921-2021 - A Century of History of the 1er REC

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This large-format book traces a century of history of the 1er REC (Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie), a well-known unit of the French Foreign Legion. 100 years of heroism: from the first engagements in the Levant to the final clashes in the Sahel. 100 years of sacrifice: from the rice paddies of Indochina to the mountains of Afghanistan. 100 years of...
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Lorient 1940-1945, from Occupation to Liberation...
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Lorient 1940-1945, from Occupation to Liberation...

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From Occupation to Liberation, told through objects, photographs and other documents. Pascal Theffo, born in 1959 in Normandy, discovered at an early age, alongside his collector father, the emotion of finding objects from the last war on the battlefields. He developed a genuine passion for which he documented himself with great interest from then on —...
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At the Val-de-Grâce – Three Centuries at the Heart of the Libraries
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At the Val-de-Grâce - Three Centuries at the Heart of the Libraries

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At the heart of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, placed at the centre of attention — from the royal Benedictine abbey to the École du Val-de-Grâce — the library and its collections have always been a source of pride for their users. In a setting of stone and greenery, they offer conditions conducive to study, research and reflection. Open to all, they are...
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100 Portraits for a Centenary - RICM
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100 Portraits for a Centenary - RICM

L20220173
€32.23
The Regiment of Marine Tank Infantry is one hundred years old. Since its creation, it has been present on every operational theatre where France has been engaged. If it is today a unit of great prestige by virtue of its history, it owes that above all to its marsouins. They came from near and far and gave their blood to defend their country. This book...
1st Parachute Transport Regiment
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1st Parachute Transport Regiment

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€39.81
The youngest of the airborne formations, the 1st Parachute Train Regiment was created from the merger of the Air Delivery Regiment of Metz and the Airborne Mobile Operational Base of Toulouse. In this new configuration, it upholds the traditions of air delivery, those of the air supply companies and the airborne bases of Indochina, which bore the heavy...
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21st RIMa – Croche et Tient
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21st RIMa - Grips and Holds

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Born of the 1900 law on the reorganisation of the Colonial Troops, the 21st RIMa is today a sprightly centenarian based in Fréjus on the shores of the Mediterranean. Its rich and long history makes it one of the most prestigious regiments of the arm. Carrying on the traditions of the 2nd Colonial Infantry Regiment of the garrison, the 21st RIC was created...
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152nd Infantry Regiment — Les Diables Rouges
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152nd Infantry Regiment - Les Diables Rouges

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It was born on the banks of the Rhine. That metaphor alone perfectly encapsulates the deep vocation of the 152nd Infantry Regiment, the "Diables rouges" of the Régiment d'Alsace. Its history, punctuated by great feats of arms and periods of dormancy, reaches its peak at the Hartmannswillerkopf and during the Great War.The regiment appears in the order of...
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The Armored Cavalry in Algeria 1954–1962 The Armored Cavalry in Algeria 1954–1962 2
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The Armoured Cavalry in Algeria 1954-1962

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The Armoured Cavalry in Algeria 1954–1962, lessons learned. This work retraces, with often previously unpublished documents, the history of this arm throughout the Algerian conflict.
The Schools of the Legion of Honour
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The Légion d'honneur Schools

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The Légion d'honneur Schools, an abundantly documented and richly illustrated work, presents all insignia, medals, prizes and documents.
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Marine Infantry Tank Regiment – RICM
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Regiment of Marine Tank Infantry - RICM

L20220159
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Richly illustrated album tracing the entire prestigious history of the "1st Regiment of France". Today based in Poitiers, it stands at the forefront of intervention forces.
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From Colonial Troops to Marine Troops: A Dream of Adventure, 1900–2000
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From Colonial Troops to Marine Troops: A Dream of Adventure 1900–2000

L20220154
€36.97
The Marine Troops are fully integrated within the French Army. They form one of its principal operational components. An illustrated album of personal, previously unpublished documents evoking the history and combat record of the Colonial and Marine Troops.
National Order of Merit
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Ordre National du Mérite

L20220151
€78.67
New 2015 edition, completely revised, history of the Ordre National du Mérite, richly illustrated.
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Practical Guide to Current French Decorations – 2015 Edition
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Practical Guide to Current French Decorations - 2015 Edition

L20220147
€36.02
Guide to Current French Decorations, 5th Edition Since 1988, the authors have been cataloguing French decorations. Their attribution, which varies over time across successive editions, reflects the evolution of society. This fifth edition provides precise and fully up-to-date information intended for everyone, whether in military or civilian service. The...
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Recruitment Posters of the Colonial Troops, 1900–1961
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Recruitment Posters of the Colonial Troops, 1900–1961

L20220140
€23.70
This work refers in a very factual manner to a now-controversial period in recent French history, namely that of colonisation. A catalogue of recruitment posters published elsewhere on many occasions and brought together here, it aims above all to serve as a witness to an era when the poster was one of the few mass communication tools capable of arousing,...
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Saint-Cyr graduates killed in the field of honor during the Imperial War of 1870 Saint-Cyr graduates killed in the field of honor during the Imperial War of 1870 2
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Saint-Cyrians killed in the field of honour during the Imperial War of 1870

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€18.96
On 19 July 1870, Napoleon III took the gravest decision of his reign by declaring war on Prussia. From a mere controversy over the succession to the Spanish throne arose a spiral as unexpected as it was catastrophic. In early August, the first French soldiers and officers died on the battlefield. The fortunes of war turned against them immediately, and...
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General Jeannou Lacaze 1924–2005, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces 1981–1985 General Jeannou Lacaze 1924–2005, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces 1981–1985 2
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General Jeannou Lacaze 1924–2005, Chief of the Defence Staff 1981–1985

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€26.54
General Jeannou Lacaze traversed the twentieth century with a serenity that even the most dramatic events seemed unable to disturb. He belonged to those rare men who are not moved at the slightest occasion, whose sensitivity does not awaken quickly but gradually, and whose feelings then become powerful and far more lasting. These are the men of strong,...
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1939–1945 Small and Grand History 1939–1945 Small and Grand History 2
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1939–1945: Small and Grand History

L20220130
€23.70
The Second World War occupies, regrettably, the summit of the table of horrors of all the wars that Humanity has known and that the planet has endured since time immemorial. This book set out to recall, in a factual manner, with independence and realism, the main phases of this exceptional conflict, the major military confrontations between the...
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The Blue Squadron – Lebanon–Chad 1977–1979 The Blue Squadron – Lebanon–Chad 1977–1979 2
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The Blue Squadron – Lebanon–Chad 1977–1979

L20220129
€17.06
The author speaks of training, command and combat, but this account is above all a story of men — and more besides.Dominique Delort notably commanded a Battalion at the ESM de Saint-Cyr, the 5th RIAOM in Djibouti, Operation Noroit in Rwanda, the Joint Operational Centre (COIA) in Paris, the French Forces in the Antilles, then the North-West Land Region....
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The Armenian Genocide
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The Armenian Genocide

L20220126
€14.22
The extermination of the Armenians constitutes the first genocide of the twentieth century. While in the last third of the nineteenth century the massacres targeting Armenian populations were numerous and terrible within the Ottoman State, in 1915 it was a matter of the eradication of a millennial human community from the Anatolian plateau by a state...
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The Battle of Stonne: A Head-on Clash during the Battle of France
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The Battle of Stonne: A Head-On Clash During the Battle of France

L20220118
€32.99
The Battle of Stonne recounts the story of the French soldiers who halted a German offensive advance in the pre-Ardennes zone south of Sedan, from 14 May 1940 onwards.This work seeks to fill a serious gap by shedding light on an episode of the Battle of France completely ignored by the French of today. It thus runs counter to received ideas and proves...
Dawn at the Gates of Hell
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Dawn at the Gates of Hell

L20220111
€21.61
DAWN AT THE GATES OF HELL tells the story of four young volunteers who enlisted in the Naval Infantry at the age of 17 — from their basic training as young soldiers to the death of some and the end of their posting at the Bab el Assa position on the Moroccan border for the others.The Algerian War was drawing to a close in 1960. The efforts of the French...
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945

L20220107
€22.75
June 1940. As the French armies began a general retreat on the orders of General Weygand, Commander-in-Chief, the inhabitants of the border regions with Germany and Belgium evacuated their towns and villages before an enemy advancing rapidly.The exodus was short-lived: France signed the armistice on 25 June. A long period of occupation of national...
The End of the Gleiniger Mystery – August 1944: the Liberation of Limoges
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The End of the Gleiniger Mystery — August 1944, the Liberation of Limoges

L20220097
€21.61
On 21 August 1944, the German authorities occupying the Limousin region had a meeting at 8 p.m. with representatives of the Resistance to sign the act of surrender of the city of Limoges, thus allowing the Maquisards of Georges Guingouin, who surrounded the city, to enter without bloodshed. But there was only one German captain to receive them at the...
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Guide to National and Ministerial Orders
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Guide to National and Ministerial Orders

L20220093
€18.96
This guide is intended as the indispensable working document for all those within our central and decentralised administrations who are responsible for drawing up nomination files for our honorary distinctions on behalf of French or foreign citizens put forward for possible appointment to one of our French national or ministerial orders. The document...
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Elevated to DIGNITY — Memoirs 1923–1954
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ELEVATED TO DIGNITY - Memoirs 1923–1954

L20220092
€30.84
"Elevated to Dignity…" is the story of a young man who comes of age in the mid-1940s.His path is far from ordinary. Of very modest origins, Lucien Le Boudec had considered becoming a priest, a schoolteacher, a meteorologist, or even a civil engineer… The war decided otherwise.To escape the STO, he joins the FFI and finds himself launched into a military...
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The Second World War: The Tragedy of a Century
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World War II, the Tragedy of a Century

L20220091
€26.54
The Second World War was the most gigantic military conflict of all time, both in terms of the harshness of the fighting endured by the soldiers involved, and the malicious consequences for civilian populations and the devastating effects on homes and the organisation of territories. It shook states to their foundations and shaped the world as we know it...
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DE LATTRE – The German Campaign 1945
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DE LATTRE The German Campaign 1945

L20220090
€17.06
February 1945: General de Lattre de Tassigny and his First French Army stand before the Rhine. He is the first since Turenne and Napoleon to be in a position to cross it by force. The Americans are not in favour. No matter — supported and encouraged by General de Gaulle, he crosses the Rhine in strength on 31 March 1945 at Gemmersheim. He is about to...
Cannons and Men, History of Artillery Cannons and Men, History of Artillery 2
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Cannons and Men: A History of Artillery

L20220088
€27.49
Since the fourteenth century, artillery has been at the heart of every battle that has shaped the history of France. To write an exhaustive history of it is a daunting challenge to which several volumes would barely do justice. Such a work would need to address, in detail, the evolution of equipment and weapons systems, of organisations, of employment —...
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Facing Darfur
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Facing Darfur

L20220083
€18.96
This book is neither a military report nor a political treatise. It brings to life the men who, on the ground, in the bush, face complex and often dangerous situations.
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The Marsouin's Handbook
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Mémento du Marsouin

L20220081
€10.43
A highly practical manual for military personnel, bringing together all essential knowledge.
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Taking Responsibility at 20! Bearing Witness Today…
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Bearing Responsibility at 20! Bearing Witness Today...

L20220077
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The author has assembled, through a vivid, alert and precise narrative, the chronological account of his conscription — 26 months in total, 15 of them in Algeria. The sections and chapters are clearly identified; those concerning Petite Kabylie form the backbone and principal theme of the work. The other sections highlight the author's determination to...
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The Gendarmerie in the Algerian War
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The Gendarmerie in the Algerian War

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What was the real impact of the Algerian War on the French armed forces? Military operations, the means deployed, the evolving role of the army, failures, victories and internal divisions: all these subjects have already inspired countless memoirs and testimonies, and have been the principal or secondary focus of many studies. But within the broader...
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BLACK FORCES of the European Colonial Powers BLACK FORCES of the European Colonial Powers 2
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BLACK FORCES OF THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL POWERS

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.The year 2007 marked the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the creation at Plombières, on 21 July 1857, by Napoleon III and General Faidherbe of the first French unit of Senegalese tirailleurs. On this occasion, the organizers of this international history symposium sought to give it a European dimension by inviting researchers from countries that...
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Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for the Memory Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for the Memory 2
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Hostage of Amirouche, Bearing Witness for Remembrance – 114 Days in the Kabyle Maquis,...

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A young civilian who went to Algeria in 1958 as an instructor under the Algerian schooling plan, he returned after four months of captivity in an FLN camp, which he recounts in this book. Having volunteered for the aviation service from 1959 to 1962, and after training as a nurse in Clermont-Ferrand, he became a senior manager at a specialist educational...
Artillerymen in Algeria 1954–1962 – A Challenge Met
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Artillerymen in Algeria 1954 - 1962 - A Challenge Met

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Artillerymen in Algeria 1954 - 1962, a challenge met. This is a first-hand account relating the action of the artillery in all its components, and across all the missions it was called upon to carry out in this theatre of operations.
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The Provence Landings
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The Provence Landings

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Proceedings of the international symposium organized in Fréjus at the Centre d'histoire et d'études des troupes d'outre-mer.Edited by Antoine Champeaux and Paul Gaujac.
Women in the War 1939–1945
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Women in the War 1939 - 1945

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The testimonies, which form the living substance of this book, were set down in writing after being recorded on camera. They constitute the audiovisual material of a documentary series in five one-hour episodes, broadcast on France 3 and Arte. « Women in the War » was released as a DVD box set distributed by Janus-diffusion in Fnac stores and video...
Artillery and Fortifications
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Artillery and Fortifications

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Proceedings of the study day of 9 April 2005 at the Artillery Museum of Draguignan. Written by some of the finest specialists in this field, Artillery and Fortifications sheds often fresh light on little-known questions.
When Hitler's Filmmaker Fascinated France: Leni Riefenstahl
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When Hitler's Filmmaker Captivated France, Leni Riefenstahl

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When Hitler's Filmmaker Captivated France — LENI RIEFENSTAHL. Why was Popular Front France able to hold up Nazi propaganda films such as Triumph of the Will or Olympia as models of thought or conduct? This book is not a biography of Leni Riefenstahl but a study of the reception of her films in France and of their possible influences on French society in...
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The Spy of the Siegfried Line: Armand Chouffet, Aerial Photographer
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The Spy of the Siegfried Line, Armand Chouffet, Aerial Photographer

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.On 20 June 1940, the day Panzergruppe Guderian arrived in Franche-Comté, three Abwehr officers — German military intelligence — went to Montéchéroux, a small village in the Doubs. Their mission: to arrest Armand Chouffet, one of the French pioneers of aerial espionage. An agent of the French intelligence service from 1935 to 1940, the aviator had taken...
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Marine Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire
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Naval Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire

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Naval Troops and the Colonies under the First Empire. This symposium addressed the question of the situation of the colonies under the First Empire and the organisation of their defence.
Operations in Europe – 6 June 1944 – 8 May 1945
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Operations in Europe - 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945

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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Europe, it seemed essential to present to the public a major work for a better understanding of this tragic and heroic chapter of our history.General Eisenhower was the orchestrator of the most significant military operation in History. We are reissuing the mission report he submitted to his...
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A Volunteer of the Night in the Hell of the Nazi Camps
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A Night Volunteer in the Hell of the Nazi Camps

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A Night Volunteer in the Hell of the Nazi Camps, Pierre de Froment. The text presented here is the sober and moving account, written in 1946, of the concentration camp horror he had just endured.
Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu 2
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Memory of the Paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu — 13 March – 7 May 1954

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They were paratroopers, serving with the 8e BPC, the 2/1er RCP or the 5e BPVN, and fate brought them together at Diên Biên Phu. Fifty years after the events, they agreed to revisit their past and recount their experiences during that battle.
Lyautey – The Social Role of the Officer
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Lyautey — The Social Role of the Officer

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Reprint of the complete text supplemented by a 55-page accompanying dossier, presented by Colonel P. Geoffroy, Association Nationale Maréchal Lyautey. This work is prefaced by General of the Army Henri Bentegeat, Chief of the Defence Staff.
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Run for It, Roger
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Run for Your Life, Roger

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A true book, featuring illustrations and texts, about the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane. The story of a child who survived this atrocity. With the participation of the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour.
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2 September 1940 – Tahiti – Free France
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2 September 1940 - Tahiti - Free France

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2 September 1940 The rallying of the French Establishments of Oceania to General de Gaulle. While the New Hebrides were the first, on 18 July 1940, to join Free France, Tahiti did so on 2 September. The time of ruptures was beginning. Little by little, parcel by parcel, the colonial Empire was making its choices. This rallying of the French...
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Crabs and Alligators in the Rice Paddies
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Crabs and Alligators in the Rice Paddies

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Through 100 letters, Jacques Jauffret, a young officer with the 1er REC (1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment), takes us through two years of his posting in Indochina. Given the nature of the terrain, the 1er REC was equipped with American-made amphibious vehicles. Beyond this first-hand account from the level of the rice paddies and rivers, what makes these...
Chronicles of Cochinchina
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Chronicles of Cochinchina

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Speaking 2 languages of Indochina, Lieutenant SIMON built outposts, opened roads, established villages, and pursued rebels through the virgin forest. He gathered fascinating confidences at the armistice commission.
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Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry 2
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Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry

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A superb volume gathering the Traditions of the Marine Infantry and all its songs: patriotic, traditional, regimental, marching, bivouac, mess and humour. In a very practical format with clear layout, pleasantly illustrated.
Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the... Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the... 2
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Italian Campaign 1943–1944 – Cassino–Rome–Siena, the clash of five armies

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The armies of five nations were present in Italy in 1943 — American, British, French, Polish and German — and their confrontation was one of the most brutal of the Second World War, both for the combatants and for the civilian population, who are never spoken of. Faced with the all-out resistance of the German forces on the Gustav Line south of Rome, the...
A UN Blue Helmet Among the Khmer Rouge – Journal of a...
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A UN Blue Helmet Among the Khmer Rouge – Journal of a Peacekeeping Soldier, Cambodia 1992

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On his first overseas mission, Captain Guillaume Ancel, aged 27, arrives in Cambodia in May 1992 — a country ravaged by twenty years of war. Alongside the soldiers of the UNTAC peacekeeping mission (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia), the task is to enforce the Paris Agreements, beginning with the disarmament of the factions. Easier said...
ACHTUNG PANZER! – HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG
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ACHTUNG PANZER! – HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG

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HEINZ GUDERIAN, INVENTOR OF THE BLITZKRIEG This book is not for every reader. This is neither a biography, nor the war memoirs of a celebrated soldier, still less a work recounting the adventures of combatants caught up in the thunder of battle. No, Achtung Panzer! is anything but that! It is a military essay — but no ordinary one: the very work that...
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THE SAMURAI ATTACK – How Japan Almost Won the War
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THE SAMURAI ATTACK – How Japan Almost Won the War

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In this compelling analysis, Simon Le Bouché revisits the first year of war waged by the Empire of the Rising Sun in the Asia-Pacific theatre, deciphering its war machine and strategies. All fronts and all operational theatres of the three arms (land, air, sea) are presented and explained, as are the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese forces as well...
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 2 1943-1945 // The Zenith
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 2 1943-1945 // The Zenith

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The Soviet victory at Stalingrad, despite the losses, marks the beginning of the Red Army's transformation. Driven by ambitious generals (and an omnipotent Stalin), it gradually changed beyond recognition, bearing almost no resemblance to the army of the summer of 1941. Despite German resistance, the Soviets pressed on towards the very heart of the III....
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FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954 FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954 2
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FRENCH PARATROOPERS IN INDOCHINA 1945-1954

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The French Army's airborne troops underwent spectacular growth during the Indochina War, following the initial formations raised with Allied assistance in 1943–1945. The fighting in Indochina, with its violence and sporadic character, severely tested these units, which carried out numerous combat jumps across every hotspot, right up to the sacrifice at...
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Par le sang versé - La Légion étrangère en Indochine
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Par le sang versé - La Légion étrangère en Indochine

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Their war lasted fifteen years, from the banks of the Rhine or the Oder in 1940 to the basin of Diên Biên Phu in 1954. French soldiers who had broken with Vichy or heroes of the Free French, soldiers of the Wehrmacht or from the eastern marches of Europe, a generation ground down by a world conflict, they carved out an adventure as one plays a final card....
The British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second...
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The British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second World War

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The role of the British soldier in the defeat of Nazi Germany reassessed and given its rightful place. Benoît Rondeau exhaustively examines the particular characteristics of the soldier of the British Empire, the conditions in which he fought, how he was trained, commanded, equipped, cared for... He seeks to capture in its entirety the daily life of the...
THE FIRST FRENCH ARMY - From Provence to Germany, 1944-1945
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THE FIRST FRENCH ARMY - From Provence to Germany, 1944-1945

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The definitive study of the army that liberated southern France. On 15 August 1944, the First French Army landed in Provence. Numbering some 300,000 soldiers in its ranks, it liberated, that summer, the major cities of southern France. It was subsequently sent into Germany, the Alps and northern Italy. This First French Army was commanded by General de...
THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 1 1918 - 1943 // From Birth to...
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THE RED ARMY - VOLUME 1 1918 - 1943 // From Birth to Stalingrad

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OUT OF PRINT Emerging from the First World War, the Red Army bore no resemblance to a genuine professional military force and stood as an exception among Western armies. Yet its victory in the Russian Civil War allowed it to be elevated as the USSR's bulwark against external aggression… as well as a standard-bearer of world communism. In the 1930s, the...
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Bonaparte's Men - The Conquest of Power, 1793–1800
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Bonaparte's Men - The Conquest of Power, 1793–1800

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On the road to power! This work focuses on the period during which Napoleon Bonaparte established himself among the principal protagonists of the Revolution before, ultimately, seizing power. The starting point is the appearance on the scene of a young artillery officer at the recapture of Toulon from the English in 1793; the end point is the victory of...
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History of Military Orders or of Knights - Book 4, From...
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History of Military Orders or of Knights - Book 4, From 1400 to 1700

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€13.27 €26.54
This History of Military Orders or of Knights, of secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several authors specialising in the antiquity of these Orders — such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc. — authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From 1150 to 1400

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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 2, From 700 to 1150

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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 1, From 400...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 1, From 400 to 700

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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
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PANZERDIVISION HITLERJUGEND - TOME 1 - VOLUME 1 - Belgium... PANZERDIVISION HITLERJUGEND - TOME 1 - VOLUME 1 - Belgium... 2
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PANZERDIVISION HITLERJUGEND - TOME 1 - VOLUME 1 - Belgium France

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This first part of Volume 1 reviews the histories of the divisional formations (Divisions-Stab, SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt.25, SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt.26, SS-Pz.Pi.Btl.12, SS-Pz.Aufkl.Abt.12, SS-Pz.Art.Rgt.12, SS-Flak-Abt.12, SS-Pz.Nachr.Abt.12), from their establishment in summer 1943 in Flanders through to June 1944 in Normandy.
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THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 2
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THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968

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More than fifty years after Joseph-Désiré Mobutu's rise to power in the Congo, it is time to take a clear-eyed look at that era and to try to understand the role of each party — and especially of the mercenaries — in this page of history of which only the scattered ashes of memory will remain. Drawing on their lived experiences and official documents, the...
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Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today 2
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Normandy Ghosts - Photos of Yesterday & Today

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€7.11 €14.22
The photographic technique of superimposing two identical images taken at two different periods is fairly widespread and visible on the web today, but is rarely published. It seemed fitting to use it to evoke the history of 1944, whose traces are visible everywhere in the Normandy we know today. Without following a "classic" account of the Battle of...
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Sainte-Mère-Église - The 82nd Airborne Division Sainte-Mère-Église - The 82nd Airborne Division 2
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Sainte-Mère-Église - The 82nd Airborne Division

L20210067
€18.96
This book, containing more than 200 photographs and numerous first-hand accounts, will plunge you back into the heart of the fierce fighting waged by American paratroopers to liberate and hold Sainte-Mère-Église and its surroundings. It will take you through the extraordinary history of the creation of the American airborne arm and the epic of the...
MAY–JUNE 40, the Invader's Gaze — Unpublished German... MAY–JUNE 40, the Invader's Gaze — Unpublished German... 2
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MAY–JUNE 40, the Invader's Gaze — Unpublished German Photographs of the Debacle

L20210060
€23.70
The present work revisits the German perspective on the Battle of France of May–June 1940. Unprecedented, drawn from a private collection of more than 2,000 photographs, this book presents essentially "private" images, in the sense that they were taken by the soldiers themselves as "souvenirs" to bring home — in which respect they fulfil the same role as...
Rouen 1940–1945: Through the Years of Occupation
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Rouen 1940–1945: Through the Years of Occupation

L20210053
€25.59
When a passionate local historian meets someone who loves the city where he grew up, it inevitably ends in an exchange of stories and anecdotes. But when both share a passion for historical photographs, it draws them even closer together, and projects begin to take shape. Thierry Chion and Jonathan Sobielga share a love of photographic testimony depicting...
Bitter Victory — Southern Soldiers from June 1919 to June...
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Bitter Victory — Southern Soldiers from June 1919 to June 1940

L20210052
€11.85 €23.70
Following "Des soldats méridionaux dans la guerre 1914–1918" published in 2018, here is the second volume, entitled "Amère Victoire. Des soldats méridionaux, juin 1919 à juin 1940." The Treaty of Versailles in June 1919 resolved none of the rivalries between nations still bled dry by the war of 1914–1918. The Midi attempted to rebuild a different world,...
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Southern Soldiers in the War of 1914–1918
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Southern Soldiers in the War of 1914–1918

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Opening a trunk and stepping into a century that already seems so distant may seem a daunting task. And yet, drawing on part of his collection assembled over more than thirty-five years, the author reviews the experiences and feelings of southern soldiers from 1900 to 1927, with a close focus on the period 1914–1918. Many aspects of garrison life...
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The France Campaign 1814 - When Napoleon Becomes a...
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The France Campaign 1814 - When Napoleon Becomes a General Again

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€14.22 €28.44
After the terrible defeat in Russia and the disaster of the 1813 campaign in Germany, Napoleon found himself forced to fight on French soil, with the Allies determined to crush the Emperor and "liberate" Europe. From the invasion in January to the abdication in April 1814, tracing the victories and final defeats of Napoleon, this book presents in text and...
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Gaulish Religions
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Gaulish Religions

L20210044
€11.37
Druids lost in deep forests, orgiastic feasts, shields and trophies, magic, human sacrifices… The clichés about Gaulish religion die hard. But what was the religion of our mythical "ancestors" really like? What was this religion without a prophet, without rules, without writings or history to present? These questions read like a challenge: we have only a...
STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Volume 2 Totenkopf -... STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Volume 2 Totenkopf -... 2
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STURMARTILLERIE DE LA WAFFEN-SS Volume 2 Totenkopf - Polizei - Wiking x2

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€37.44
In this second volume on the Sturmgeschütze of the Waffen-SS, the reader will find the history of the assault guns of the "Totenkopf" division, initially organized as a single battery and later expanded into a powerful three-battery Abteilung. Plunged into the ordeal of the Demyansk Pocket in the winter of 1941/42, the Sturmartilleristen endured almost...
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Italians in the Service of France, 1499–1630 –...
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Italians in the Service of France, 1499–1630 – Renaissance & Thirty Years' War

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Italians in the Service of France – Renaissance & Thirty Years' War Discover in this new Compagnie d'Elite cahier the genesis of the integration of Italian troops into the order of battle of the French armies. From the origins in 1499, through the Gendarmes of Prince Ludovico Gonzaga and the bands of Piedmont, to the fighting in 1629–1630 during the...
Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and... Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and... 2
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Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and Evolution, 1831–2019

L20210039
€36.02
The recruitment of the Légion étrangère, over its 189 years of existence, has never ceased to evolve in response to numerous parameters that fiction does not glimpse or cannot reveal. The image of a charming and crafty adventurer, seeking redemption, wandering through sands and jungles at the whim of wars, is too fine a picture to withstand the filter of...
STALIN'S MARSHALS
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STALIN'S MARSHALS

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€23.70
The French know the twenty-six marshals of Napoleon. But what do they know of the seventeen elevated by Stalin? Yet it is to them that we owe the creation of the Red Army and its formidable victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Some rank among the greatest commanders of the last century: Tukhachevsky, Shaposhnikov, Zhukov, Vasilevsky, Konev,...
The Other War of Independence - 1812, History of the...
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The Other War of Independence - 1812, History of the Second American War of Independence

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€17.06
In 1812, as Napoleon's Grande Armée enters Russian territory, another war ignites in North America. It pits the United States of America against their former metropolis, England. Hostilities begin with an American invasion of the British province of Upper Canada. The British response, allied with the Indians, is crushing. Land battles continue around the...
NOTEBOOK FROM THE WAR OF 1870-1871 - TESTIMONY OF A SOLDIER
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NOTEBOOK FROM THE WAR OF 1870-1871 - TESTIMONY OF A SOLDIER

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First-hand accounts of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 are both rare and highly sought after. They allow us to enter into the intimate reality of a little-known conflict that nonetheless constitutes a pivotal, transitional moment between the heroic epic of Napoleon's Grande Armée and the terrible carnage of 1914–1918. For the first time in history,...
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An Untold History of France in 100 Maps An Untold History of France in 100 Maps 2
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An Untold History of France in 100 Maps

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The history of France mapped, from prehistory to the present day, and narrated by Jean Sévillia. In 5 parts — " Origins ", " The Kingdom of France ", " The French Nation ", " Facing the Trials of the 20th Century " and " Towards the France of Tomorrow " — and in 100 previously unpublished and richly detailed maps, from the principal prehistoric sites to...
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The End of the Reich - April, May 1945: Unpublished...
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The End of the Reich - April, May 1945: Unpublished Images of the Fall of Nazi Germany

L20210010
€36.97
On 24 March 1945, for the first time since Napoleon, foreign armies crossed the Rhine to invade German territory. The first Anglo-American elements engaged in the fierce fighting that was to open the way to the heart of the Nazi Reich. On the eastern front, the Red Army, drunk with vengeance, broke through the German defences one by one along a merciless...
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War in the Open Sky - Iraq 1991, the Dreamed Victory
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War in the Open Sky - Iraq 1991, the Dreamed Victory

L20210003
€27.49
Ideal victory or illusory victory? An idealized victory in any case, the Gulf War was born from the symmetrical confrontation of the Cold War. It is at once rooted in the 20th century and heralding today's conflicts centred on the mastery of information. The current situation in the Middle East also reveals its long-term consequences. It is therefore rich...
Summer 1870 - The War as Told by the Soldiers
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Summer 1870 - The War as Told by the Soldiers

L20210002
€18.96
On 19 July 1870, Napoleon III fell into Bismarck's trap and declared war on Prussia. In a state of exaltation, seasoned soldiers and young recruits alike headed towards the eastern frontiers. No one could then imagine the catastrophe awaiting France. Defeated on its own territory, the country would lose Alsace and northern Lorraine before settling into a...
The French and the War of 1870
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The French and the War of 1870

L20210001
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In July 2020, the country commemorated the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the War of 1870, which from 18 July 1870 to 28 January 1871 pitted France against a German coalition led by Bismarck's Prussia. Declared for a reason rooted in the Ancien Régime, this conflict is characterised militarily by extremely bloody battles that foreshadow those of the...
Memoirs of General Dietrich von Choltitz
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Memoirs of General Dietrich von Choltitz

L20200284
€20.85
For our contemporaries, Dietrich Von Choltitz has the features of Niels Arestrup, who portrayed him masterfully in Volker Schlöndorff's film "Diplomatie", staging his fateful face-to-face with Swedish consul Raoul Nordling, played by André Dussollier. At the conclusion of their discussions, the military commander of Paris agrees not to carry out Hitler's...
1870-1871 Perspectives on the Franco-German War - Carnet...
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1870-1871 Perspectives on the Franco-German War - Carnet de la Sabretache

L20200280
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Perspectives on the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 This special issue on the conflict of 1870-1871 aims to complement the many studies and accounts that have been published on this subject. It does not claim to "recount" the war in the face of this wealth of easily accessible and highly comprehensive sources. La Sabretache has favoured a more diverse...
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THEY FOUGHT May-June 1940 - Unpublished Photos and... THEY FOUGHT May-June 1940 - Unpublished Photos and... 2
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THEY FOUGHT May-June 1940 - Unpublished Photos and Testimonies of the Battle of France

L20200278
€23.70
The defeat of 1940 remains the greatest political and moral drama to have shaken France in the 20th century. Beaten in six weeks, the French have since retained the impression of an ill-equipped national army and a poorly commanded country, quicker to flee than to resist the enemy. More broadly, the "syndrome of forty" is a deep trauma in the collective...
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The Great Blunders of the Second World War
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The Great Blunders of the Second World War

L20200277
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The Second World War lasted nearly six years, as long as they were terrible. A duration explained by the formidable means that the belligerents deployed on land, at sea and in the skies — making it futile to hope to defeat the enemy in a single campaign — but also, and in large part, by the mistakes committed. Had Hitler not persisted in winning the...
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Indochina – Dien Bien Phu and the Battles of the Impossible
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Indochina – Dien Bien Phu and the Battles of the Impossible

L20200270
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu remains the final episode of a war in Indochina in which the finest troops of the French army never ceased to display unwavering bravery and heroism. It is in this strategic basin of Upper Tonkin that a true fortified camp was established, protected by three outlying strongpoints to the North — " Gabrielle ", " Anne-Marie " and...
GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS
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GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS

L20200269
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Gallipoli, the Dardanelles — these names, almost forgotten from our history books, nevertheless mark one of the bloodiest battles in which the French Army took part during the First World War. This military campaign, contested from its very conception by the political world and decried by the general staffs, had been conceived by a single man: Winston...
THE 1ST PARACHUTE CHASSEUR REGIMENT THROUGH ITS PENNANTS...
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THE 1ST PARACHUTE CHASSEUR REGIMENT THROUGH ITS PENNANTS 1937–2019

L20200268
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With this unprecedented and richly illustrated work, the history of the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment (1st RCP) is revisited and expanded: for the first time, the combat actions and day-to-day training of the 1st RCP are recounted through the regiment's many pennants. A great number of them have weathered the storms of history into which the 1st RCP has...
Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action 2
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Far from the Front Lines? – Commemoration(s) in Action

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This richly illustrated volume is the culmination of a shared field experience by researchers and heads of museum institutions on what makes commemoration, yesterday and today, and also on what it does — through the practices, uses and social appropriations to which it gives rise. Volume edited by Philippe Hanus and Gilles Vergnon in partnership with the...
France 1940 – Massacred!
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France 1940 – Massacred!

L20200260
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The tragic fate of African and Indochinese soldiers in Picardy and Normandy No, this book has nothing demagogic about it — the author neither seeks to flatter nor to promote himself. Those put forward are the men themselves: the actors of the bloody fighting on the Somme in June 1940, the massacres of which African soldiers were victims, and those that...
The early days of Nazism with Emil Maurice, Hitler's...
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The early days of Nazism with Emil Maurice, Hitler's Jewish friend

L20200257
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Of Jewish origin and intimate friend of Adolf Hitler, Emil Maurice was the founder of the SA and the Stosstrupp Hitler (the forerunner of the SS). He also served as a drafter of Mein Kampf during his imprisonment at Landsberg. Through the highly singular destiny of Emil Maurice, this album covers primarily the little-known yet critically decisive period...
WHEN THE ALLIES BOMBED FRANCE 1940–1945
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WHEN THE ALLIES BOMBED FRANCE 1940–1945

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Quand les Alliés bombardaient la France sets out to explain the reasons for the raids, to describe their preparation, their execution — sometimes seen from the air, sometimes from the ground — and their results relative to objectives. Numerous first-hand accounts and a taste for precision take us inside both the cockpit of a bomber and the streets and...
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Target Saigon: The Fall of South Vietnam
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Target Saigon: The Fall of South Vietnam

L20200247
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Volume 2: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 – March 1975 A detailed account, based heavily on Vietnamese sources, of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South. • A new study based primarily on Vietnamese-language sources, describing the disintegration of South Vietnam • Fully illustrated with rare and previously unpublished...
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ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in... ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in... 2
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ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in Normandy

L20200240
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A war correspondent in Normandy. When he lands in Normandy on 7 June 1944, Ernie Pyle is the finest (Pulitzer Prize) and most popular of American war correspondents. Pyle owes this popularity to his ability to recount, simply and with great empathy, the stories of ordinary soldiers. During the summer of 1944, he follows the American troops from Omaha...
Exceptional Women in the Middle Ages
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Exceptional Women of the Middle Ages

L20200237
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If great men embody history, the same cannot be said of women, so consistently has the past been cast in masculine terms. Yet certain women of the Middle Ages once left their mark on their era: queens, saints, writers or adventurers. The medieval chronicles evoke the figures of queens Clotilde, Radegonde, Brunehaut, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Blanche of...
History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution
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History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution

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Where and when did the very first drops of wine pass down a thirsty throat? What could the taste of the "nectar of the gods" in Antiquity possibly have been? Some 2,600 years ago, our ancestors living on the land of present-day Marseille discovered wine with delight. Shortly afterwards, the Gaulish elites began importing it in considerable quantities. But...
Secret Album of the Templars
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Secret Album of the Templars

L20200234
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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
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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
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"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
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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

L20200205
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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 Search of the Lost Manuscripts of Chevalier Allent 1772–1837

L20200204
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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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The Mulsanne Notebook - German Prisoners of War in France - 1945–1947

L20200203
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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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The Story of Hitler, Germania and Co. - Paul Ordner

L20200201
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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...
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A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army
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A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army

L20200192
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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.
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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
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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...
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VERDUN THROUGH THREE WARS 1870 - 1945
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VERDUN THROUGH THREE WARS 1870 - 1945

L20200148
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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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THE WAR IN SEINE-MARITIME - Stories of Objects

L20200144
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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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THE OTHER TERROR AFTER THE LIGHTNING – THE 11th MARINE ARTILLERY REGIMENT

L20200138
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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...
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THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception 2
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THE CUNNING WINS! - An Anthology of Military Deception

L20200118
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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...
DE GAULLE IN HELMET – A New Approach to the Drama
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DE GAULLE UNDER FIRE – A New Approach to the Drama

L20200117
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A gripping account of a brief but violent period in the life of General de Gaulle who, from 28 May to 5 June 1940, resisted the Germans on the Somme at the head of five hundred tanks.
ALSATIAN PRIESTS CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE REMEMBER
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ALSATIAN PRIESTS CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE REMEMBER

L20200113
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AROUND TEN PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNTS BRING BACK TO LIFE THE FATE OF YOUNG ALSATIANS DESTINED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, IN AN ANNEXED ALSACE-MOSELLE, CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE FROM AUGUST 1942 INTO THE GERMAN ARMY.
LETTERS TO ELISE - A History of the Franco-Prussian War...
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LETTERS TO ELISE - A History of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 Through the...

L20200110
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Through nearly 250 previously unpublished letters, discover for the first time the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 through the eyes of Prussian soldiers: from the entry into the war to the repatriation of troops to Germany, through the first battles in Alsace and Lorraine, the fighting against the Army of the Loire, the siege of Paris, and the Commune —...
THE MAQUIS OF FRANCE – SITES OF MEMORY
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THE MAQUIS OF FRANCE - PLACES OF MEMORY

L20160287
€16.12 €32.23
Beyond the honours and commemorations, let us remember what the Maquis were… Who were their leaders? Why were young Frenchmen driven to resist by the compulsion of an unacceptable reality, without having fought as free men? The refusal of the STO for some, of the Occupation for others, made them outlaws in the eyes of the Vichy authorities, pushing them...
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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"

L20200083
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Through a fascinating collection of testimonies and numerous photographs from veterans of the "LSSAH" division, the German author Thomas Fischer takes us into the world — often poorly understood — of artillery… and what is more, that of the 1st Waffen-SS division! A welcome change from the Panzers or the Grenadiere, the world of the Artilleristen is just...
THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY
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THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY

L20200079
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The elimination of collaborators by the Resistance, outside any judicial framework, between 1943 and 1946 in Normandy Spread over three years, from 1943 to 1946, the so-called wild purge claimed around a hundred victims in Normandy. This figure must be set against the legal purge carried out between 1944 and 1947: 39 individuals were shot after being...
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INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... 2
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INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment Recover Their Colours

L20200078
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It is 1799 when the 76th demi-brigade d'infanterie, then part of the Army of Helvetia under General Masséna, lost its colours in the engagement at Sernft against the Austrians. Later incorporated into the VI Corps of the Grande Armée, the 76th Line Regiment, commanded by Colonel Faure-Lajonquière, fought at Elchingen on 14 October 1805, a victory that...
RWANDA, THE END OF SILENCE - Testimony of a French Officer
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RWANDA, THE END OF SILENCE - Testimony of a French Officer

L20200075
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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

L20200074
€11.33 €22.65
« 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

L20200073
€12.32
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

L20200072
€21.14
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

L20200071
€18.01
« 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

L20200068
€42.65
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

L20200067
€22.75
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

L20200055
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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

L20200054
€25.59
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

L20200043
€23.22
"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

L20200042
€14.22
"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)
¡ LIBERTAD! The Gironde and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
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¡ LIBERTAD ! La Gironde and the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

L20200015
€18.01
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, this volume, under the scientific direction of Francine Agard-Lavallé and Bernard Lavallé, recalls how the Gironde was one of the rear bases of the civil war.
THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
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THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS

L20200012
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The history of the Teutonic Knights, from the Holy Land to the Baltic, in their conquest and evangelisation of the pagans of north-eastern Europe.
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Code name: "Chocolate village": Liberation of Bourneville and its region Code name: "Chocolate village": Liberation of Bourneville and its region 2
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Code Name: "Chocolate Village": Liberation of Bourneville and Its Region

L20190223
€18.96
Chronological account of the liberation of the commune of Bourneville and its surroundings in August 1944. Bourneville is a Norman commune in the Eure department, located in the meanders of the Seine. This account covers the liberation of the commune during the summer of 1944 by British troops.
WITH BIGEARD - from Tu Lê to Diên Biên Phu WITH BIGEARD - from Tu Lê to Diên Biên Phu 2
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WITH BIGEARD - From Tu Lê to Diên Biên Phu

L20190215
€28.44
When, in November 1945, he set foot on Indochinese soil for the first time, Marcel Bigeard did not know then, as he wrote in his Memoirs thirty years later, "that there would be many more steps to come, thousands of kilometres travelled... over long years, and that, like so many others, he would be marked for life by this captivating country". 
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LEIBSTANDARTE 1933 - 1942 Volume 1
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LEIBSTANDARTE 1933-1942 Volume 1

L20190214
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The history of the elite Leibstandarte division, formerly Hitler's personal bodyguard, in two volumes.Volume 1: from 1933 to 1942
NEW DICTIONARY OF THE GRANDE ARMÉE
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NEW DICTIONARY OF THE GRANDE ARMÉE

L20190212
€80.57
The first edition of the Dictionary of the Grande Armée was published in 2002, on the eve of the great Napoleonic military bicentennials, which took place between 2004 and 2015. Since then, a great many publications have appeared; this edition takes them into account and significantly supplements the various entries.
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THE BLACK ORDER - Allgemeine-SS 1925-1945
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THE BLACK ORDER - Allgemeine-SS 1925-1945

L20190188
€71.09
This magnificent work, in the tradition of Landser, offers a genuine autopsy of a totalitarian regime. It presents a little-known facet of the SS, the Allgemeine-SS (the "General SS"), which brought together military personnel as well as civilians, including university professors and prominent figures from civil society. Its aim was to create a "total...
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VILLERS-BOCAGE - Autopsy of a Battle
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VILLERS-BOCAGE - Anatomy of a Battle

L20190185
€33.18
Normandy, les Hauts-Vents, 13 June 1944, 9 o'clock… A stretched British armoured column of the 7th Armoured Division has made a deep penetration into the German front line and is about to reach one of its objectives for the day — Hill 213 on the road to Caen, three kilometres from Villers-Bocage.
STURMTRUPPEN The Assault Troops of the German Army 1914-1918
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STURMTRUPPEN The assault troops of the German army 1914-1918

L20190184
€37.91
The first assault units (Sturmtruppen) were formed during the spring and summer of 1916, when the Sturmbataillon Rohr was organised and after General Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff, issued orders for the creation of specialist detachments.
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DIEN BIEN PHU 1954
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DIEN BIEN PHU 1954

L20190183
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The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, fought from 13 March to 7 May 1954, was the last battle of the Indochina War. It was also the longest engagement of the conflict and one of the bloodiest.
THE 517's GANG Part 1: Italy & Provence THE 517's GANG Part 1: Italy & Provence 2
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THE 517's GANG Part 1: Italy & Provence

L20190182
€42.65
The history of the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team from its creation in March 1943 to the end of the Alpes-Maritimes campaign in December 1944
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CLANDESTINE RADIO OPERATORS
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THE CLANDESTINE RADIO OPERATORS

L20190164
€23.65
It is important to pay tribute to those who gave their lives for Freedom in the battle of the Airwaves waged from 1940 to 1944: the clandestine radio operators. The target of a merciless campaign by the Germans, the "pianists", men and women alike, had a life expectancy of just six months...
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THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS Volume 2: Operation Rösselsprung - Bosnia - Eastern Front THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS Volume 2: Operation Rösselsprung - Bosnia - Eastern Front 2
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THE WAFFEN-SS PARATROOPERS Vol. 2: Operation Rösselsprung — Bosnia — Eastern Front

L20190157
€51.18
This is a very little-known subject. A battalion of Waffen-SS paratroopers was formed in autumn 1943 to carry out special missions. The author, a Luftwaffe paratrooper captain (West Germany), holding German, French and US parachute qualifications from the 1960s, who later became a historian, presents a detailed three-volume history of nearly 400 pages each.
HELL ON HILL 112
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HELL ON HILL 112

L20190155
€27.96
Following the failure at Villers-Bocage and a renewed failure at the end of June 1944 against Hill 112, in the wake of Operation Epsom (the "Battle of the Odon"), Monty launched a fresh attack against Hill 112, south-west of Caen, on 10 July 1944.
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UTAH BEACH - Tuesday 6 June 1944 UTAH BEACH - Tuesday 6 June 1944 2
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UTAH BEACH - Tuesday 6 June 1944

L20190152
€18.96
The Battle of Omaha holds a prominent place in collective memory because of the tragic hours that unfolded there on 6 June 1944. The Utah sector, situated at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, has received less attention.
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HUNTERS AND GLADIATORS - The Epic of the Heroes of the Arena
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HUNTERS AND GLADIATORS - The Epic of the Arena's Heroes

L20190148
€19.91
Panem et circenses, "bread and circus games". This expression by Juvenal, denouncing the Roman plebs whose sole ambition was the free distribution of grain and a passion for spectacles, captures quite aptly the singular character of Roman society in the age of the first emperors.
THREE DAYS IN HELL, 7-9 JUNE 1944 THREE DAYS IN HELL, 7-9 JUNE 1944 2
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THREE DAYS IN HELL, 7–9 JUNE 1944

L20190146
€18.48
This album presents the fighting that took place over those three decisive days between the Canadian soldiers of the 3rd Division and the soldiers of the Hitlerjugend.
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THE MAQUIS OF THE AIN - The Victorious Resistance THE MAQUIS OF THE AIN - The Victorious Resistance 2
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THE AIN MAQUIS - The Victorious Resistance

L20190145
€18.91
As early as 1940, the Ain — a key département on the North–South corridor — refused to accept defeat. Close to Lyon and Switzerland, it became the heart of the resistance organisation, first against Vichy and then against the Germans from 1943 onwards.
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The Merville Battery - June 1944 The Merville Battery - June 1944 2
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The Merville Battery – June 1944

L20190142
€18.96
In the early hours of 6 June 1944, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway, the paratroopers of the 9th Battalion and the sappers of the 591st Squadron Royal Engineers of the British 6th Airborne Division were tasked with capturing the Merville Battery and neutralising its guns.
CREULLY June 1944 - A Secret So Well Kept CREULLY June 1944 - A Secret So Well Kept 2
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CREULLY June 1944 - A Secret So Well Kept

L20190141
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In the spring of 1944, life in the Norman village of Creully follows the daily concerns of a community under occupation. But on the morning of Tuesday 6 June, its inhabitants unwittingly become witnesses to a succession of events that will place the village — and most particularly Château de Creullet — at the very heart of the organisation of the D-Day...
CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part II CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part II 2
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CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part II

L20190140
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This new work, published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, retraces in pictures the epic of the 101st Airborne Division in Normandy on 6 June 1944 and the days that followed.
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CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part I CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part I 2
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CARENTAN, Linking Omaha Beach - Utah Beach, Part I

L20190139
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OUT OF PRINT This new work, published to mark the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, retraces in images the epic story of the 101st Airborne Division in 1944. This first volume in a series of five works totalling more than 3,000 pages and 4,000 photographs is dedicated to the few days preceding D-Day.
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THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS THE FRENCH IN THE LANDINGS 2
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The French in the D-Day Landings

L20190136
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Among the 155,000 Allied soldiers deployed in Normandy on 6 June 1944, a handful of Frenchmen formed a battalion commonly known as Commando Kieffer.
OBJECTIVE CARENTAN
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OBJECTIVE CARENTAN

L20190125
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Liberation of Carentan – 6 to 15 June 1944
VERNON Bridgehead 1944 - LA ROCHE GUYON Kommandantur VERNON Bridgehead 1944 - LA ROCHE GUYON Kommandantur 2
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VERNON Bridgehead 1944 - LA ROCHE GUYON Kommandantur

L20190019
€33.18
Before addressing the Liberation battle with the Vernon Bridgehead, we will see how this region was occupied. The entry into the Resistance of patriots, faced with an occupation that intensified with the establishment of Field Marshal Rommel's headquarters at La Roche Guyon.
1796–1797: From the Bridge of Arcole to the Battle of Rivoli
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1796–1797: From the Bridge of Arcole to the Battle of Rivoli

L20190013
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In 1796, the Directory resolved to strike at the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Two armies failed in Germany, while the small Army of Italy, under Bonaparte's command, conducted a lightning and brilliantly conceived campaign that crushed the Austrians.
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History of the 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1939-1945: The Phoenix Odyssey
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History of the 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1939-1945: The Phoenix Odyssey

L20190010
€24.64
On the morning of 1 September 1939, 4,000 men set out to face German forces south of Kraków. They came from the 10th Cavalry Brigade, the only large motorised unit in the Polish army, and unknowingly embarked on an unprecedented epic. Holding three Wehrmacht divisions in check to the eastern borders of Poland, they managed despite the defeat to cross into...
THE ARMORED REGIMENTS OF THE 2ND ARMORED DIVISION
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THE ARMORED REGIMENTS OF THE 2ND ARMORED DIVISION

L20190029
€39.81
When it was formed in 1943, General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division was equipped with three armored regiments that would form its spearhead: the 501st Tank Combat Regiment, drawn from the Free French Forces, the 12th African Chasseurs Regiment and the 12th Cuirassiers Regiment, both drawn from the Army of Africa.
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The 2nd Armored Division - "Leclerc"
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The 2nd Armoured Division - "Leclerc"

L20180203
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It was around fighters of the Free French from the earliest days that Leclerc would build the 2nd armoured division, with one objective: to make it the instrument capable of fulfilling the oath sworn at Koufra on 2 March 1941, "to lay down arms only when our colours, our beautiful colours, fly over the cathedral of Strasbourg".
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General Lardant - Soldier of the Mountain Troops
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General Lardant – Soldier of the Mountain Troops

L20180198
€9.48 €18.96
In the late 1880s, alpine light infantry battalions and alpine infantry regiments were formed. This marked the birth of troops specialised in mountain warfare.
Honour, Not Honours - Memoirs, Volume 1: With the 2nd REP in Algeria
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Honour, Not Honours – Memoirs, Volume 1: With the 2e REP in Algeria

L20180197
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This account is a testimony to the Algerian War, to the military operations in which the author — a paratroop officer in the Foreign Legion — took part, as well as to the generals' putsch of April 1961. On graduating from officer school in 1954, Pierre Montagnon — top of his class — chose the Legion's paratroopers. He remained with them until 1961, first...
OTTO SKORZENY. THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE THIRD REICH OTTO SKORZENY. THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE THIRD REICH 2
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OTTO SKORZENY. THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE THIRD REICH

L20180172
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An extraordinary figure, shaped by history, Otto Skorzeny became, from the end of the Second World War onwards, "the most wanted man in Europe" — if not "the most dangerous man in the Third Reich"!
EPOPEES THE DRAGOONS FROM THEIR ORIGINS TO 1918 BRETEGNIER LELIEPVRE EPOPEES THE DRAGOONS FROM THEIR ORIGINS TO 1918 BRETEGNIER LELIEPVRE 2
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EPOPEES: THE DRAGOONS FROM THEIR ORIGINS TO 1918

L20180167
€61.61
This work invites you to discover the fascinating dragoons, accomplished cavalrymen who traversed the history of France from the 17th century to the end of the First World War.
Versailles Kommandantur 1944–1945, Volume 2 Versailles Kommandantur 1944–1945, Volume 2 2
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Versailles Kommandantur 1944-1945, Volume 2

L20180166
€33.18
Under the generic term "Versailles Kommandantur", this second work presents the events that took place in Versailles between 1944 and 1945. We will discover the workings of the Versailles Milice Française and the S.D., better known as the Gestapo. The confrontation with the Resistance, and the reprisals.
Versailles Kommandantur 1940–1943, Volume 1 Versailles Kommandantur 1940–1943, Volume 1 2
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Versailles Kommandantur 1940-1943, Volume 1

L20180165
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Writing about the German Occupation in Versailles and its surroundings requires the historian to immerse himself in an impressive mass of documents held in archives in France and abroad.
Saint Germain-en-Laye Kommandantur 1940–1944, Volume 1 Saint Germain-en-Laye Kommandantur 1940–1944, Volume 1 2
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Saint Germain-en-Laye Kommandantur 1940-1944, Volume 1

L20180163
€33.18
Under the generic term "Kommandantur" we present events, facts, and previously unpublished testimonies, all linked by the omnipresence of the occupier. Through this chronology, we discover the fates of the key figures of collaboration during this period in Saint-Germain and its surroundings, but also those of the Resistance.
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HITLERJUGEND PANZERS - Normandy 44 HITLERJUGEND PANZERS - Normandy 44 2
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PANZERS OF THE HITLERJUGEND – Normandy 44

L20180152
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Thanks to the war diary of the Panzer-Regiment of the "Hitlerjugend" discovered by the author, as well as elements from that of its tank-destroyer battalion, we can follow, day by day, the commitment of the panzers of this celebrated division in the fierce fighting of the Battle of Normandy.
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Hartmannswillerkopf - 1914-1918 Hartmannswillerkopf - 1914-1918 2
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Hartmannswillerkopf – 1914–1918

L20180146
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The Hartmannswillerkopf is a massif dominating the Alsatian plain that was, in 1915, the scene of fierce fighting between French and German forces. This iconic site of the Great War is sanctified by the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers from both sides. One of France's four national war memorials was built there. No book had previously retraced, in text...
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Women in Combat. The Female Arm of France during the Second World War
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Women in Combat. The Female Arm of France During the Second World War

SHD-SHA 0071
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Study on the place of women in France during the Second World War: women in the army, women in the Corps des Volontaires Françaises, women in the Resistance, etc. Individual stories are briefly mentioned (Hélène Terré, Claire Roman, Maryse Hilsz, Danielle Casanova, Madeleine Riffaud...).
THE TRAGEDY OF U-110 - Spanish Civil War - Capture of the Enigma Machine - Captivity in Canada THE TRAGEDY OF U-110 - Spanish Civil War - Capture of the Enigma Machine - Captivity in Canada 2
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THE TRAGEDY OF U-110 - Spanish Civil War - Capture of the Enigma Machine - Captivity in...

L20180142
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Kapitänleutnant Fritz Lemp and the tragedy of U-110 through the reportage of submariner Willi Brohm. Drawing on the photo albums of one of the sailors of U-30 and then U-110, the author has reconstructed — through text and images alike — the journey and fate of these submarines, of Kapitänleutnant Fritz Lemp and his crew, including sailor Willi Brohm.
THE NORMANS IN THE GREAT WAR THE NORMANS IN THE GREAT WAR 2
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L20180140
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Drawing on a rich and often unpublished iconography sourced from departmental as well as municipal archives and family collections, Les Normands dans la Grande Guerre is a chronicle of a region during the First World War. Emblematic stories of men and women — Norman combatants and civilians, refugees and prisoners — shed original light on the conflict.
Objective Hillman - WN17 Against the Assaults of the 1st Suffolk - 6–7 June 1944
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Objective Hillman - WN17 Against the Assaults of the 1st Suffolk - 6–7 June 1944

L20180100
€28.34
A historical account tracing the two days of the advance by the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment at Colleville-Montgomery to secure the Normandy coast and reach a site designated Hillman. Fierce fighting against the German soldiers commanded by Ludwig Krug ensued, but the objective was achieved. Includes veterans' testimonies.
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Omaha Beach - Tuesday 6 June 1944 Omaha Beach - Tuesday 6 June 1944 2
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Omaha Beach - Tuesday 6 June 1944

L20180098
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Tuesday 6 June 1944, at dawn, the German sentries on duty along the Sables d'Or beach and on the Pointe du Hoc make out menacing silhouettes offshore
Civilians in the Battle of Normandy
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Civilians in the Battle of Normandy

L20180097
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6 June 1944: war sweeps over the peaceful region of Normandy. The battle that begins with the Landings will last three months instead of the three weeks provided for in the Allies' plans.
MAQUISARDS AND PARTISANS 1943-1944 MILITARIA GUIDE N°12 MAQUISARDS AND PARTISANS 1943-1944 MILITARIA GUIDE N°12 2
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MAQUISARDS AND PARTISANS 1943-1944 MILITARIA GUIDE N°12

L20180092
€18.91
The silhouette of the Resistance fighters seems frozen, as in a romanticised image, but the reality is quite different. The author, Simon Deleyrolle, with more than 25 reconstructed figures and using authentic pieces, recreates the specific appearance of the maquisards region by region. The Allied personnel who were parachuted in to train the Forces of...
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Arromanches - The Ports and Allied Logistics Arromanches - The Ports and Allied Logistics 2
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Arromanches - The Ports and Allied Logistics

L20180090
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The Normandy Landings and the military operations that followed required the deployment of unprecedented logistical and technological resources.
Vercingetorix Vercingetorix 2
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Vercingetorix

L20180085
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This work, published in 1901 by Hachette, is by Camille Jullian, then professor at the University of Bordeaux. This study traces the history of the Arverni tribes and the fate of their last king, Vercingetorix, leader of the uprising against Roman occupation in 54 BC.
The French Expeditionary Corps in Italy, 1943-1944
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The French Expeditionary Corps in Italy, 1943-1944

C9782913903937
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In July 1944, the soldiers of the French Expeditionary Force in Italy erased the effects of their 1940 defeat. Earning the respect of the Americans, they battered the German defenses — which until then had not been broken — in an extraordinary mountain battle around the Garigliano. They pushed back the German lines, opening the road to Rome for the...
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THE END OF VICTORIES - EASTERN FRONT RUSSIA 1942 - VOLUME 1
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THE END OF VICTORIES - EASTERN FRONT RUSSIA 1942 - VOLUME 1

L20180077
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Russia 1942Following the failure of the German offensive against Moscow in early December 1941, the 4th Army of Army Group Centre was struck by the counter-offensive of the Soviet 43rd Army,which broke through its front at several points. Its objective was to link up with the remnants of the Soviet 33rd Army, encircled by the divisions of the 4th Army.
The TOTENKOPF PANZER REGIMENT - From 22 June 1941 to the end of the war
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The TOTENKOPF PANZER REGIMENT - From 22 June 1941 to the End of the War

L20180076
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Through several testimonies and recollections of veterans, the reader is immersed in the daily life of a unit, the SS-Panzer Regiment 3 « Totenkopf », which fought exclusively on the Russian Front. It would be one of the most formidable. The Kriegstagebuch (war diary) of a tank gunner from this unit serves as the guiding thread of this work, enriched with...
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THE MARINES IN THE HELL OF THE PACIFIC THE MARINES IN THE HELL OF THE PACIFIC 2
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THE MARINES IN THE HELL OF THE PACIFIC

L20180054
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Following his works devoted to the Battle of Iwo Jima and the 1st Marine Division, Charles Trang presents an encyclopaedic study of the Marines in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945, in which each of their campaigns is treated in detail with numerous first-hand accounts and photographs, most of them previously unpublished.
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Burning Bridges (vol 1) + Bridges are Ours (vol 2) Burning Bridges (vol 1) + Bridges are Ours (vol 2) 2
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Burning Bridges (vol 1) + Bridges are Ours (vol 2)

L20180053
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SPECIAL OFFER Michel De Trez and Peter Hendrikx have compiled the complete pictorial history of the 82nd Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden. Burning Bridges (vol 1) + Bridges are Ours (vol 2)
The Panzers: France 1940
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The Panzers: France 1940

L20180049
€27.96
Following the success of Jean-Yves Mary's works, in particular Corridor des Panzers and Zur Küste, it was essential to complete this remarkable body of documentation. In this first volume, the German armoured forces, their units, commanders and the history of their engagements are recalled with rich iconography including documents and colour profiles.
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Normandy 1944
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Normandy 1944

L20180048
€22.75
The D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy, from 6 June to 30 August 1944, are recounted day by day. The narrative, illustrated with maps, photographs and period documents, is accompanied by information on the aircraft and military vehicles involved.
MEMORIAL OF THE BATTLE OF FRANCE — Volume 3, from 5 to 16 June 1940 MEMORIAL OF THE BATTLE OF FRANCE — Volume 3, from 5 to 16 June 1940 2
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Memorial of the Battle of France - Volume 3, 5 to 16 June 1940

L20180008
€55.92
On 5 June 1940, the Germans launched their second major offensive of the campaign against a severely weakened French army. The fighting on the Somme and the Aisne was of great intensity before the attacker's numerical and material superiority forced French troops to fall back gradually.
1940, The Mark of Defeat - Testimonies and Archives (co-Ed) 1940, The Mark of Defeat - Testimonies and Archives (co-Ed) 2
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1940, The Mark of Defeat - Testimonies and Archives

SHD-SHD 523
€17.06
This volume examines the consequences of the 1940 collapse on French archives: the impact of the fighting despite protective measures, reorganisations under the Occupation, and the mechanisms of German seizures.
The Ministers of War, 1570–1792 The Ministers of War, 1570–1792 2
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Les Ministres de la Guerre, 1570–1792

SHD-SHA 0066
€28.44 €56.87
The central administration of War from its origins to 1792 Biographies of ministers and Secretaries of State
LES DRAGONS 1669-1749 - TOME 1 : O&S N°24
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THE DRAGOONS 1669–1749 – VOLUME 1: O&S No. 24

L20170160
€18.91
According to Father Daniel, it was under the reign of Henri II that the dragoon corps found its origins, with the mounted arquebusiers established in 1554.
AUSTERLITZ, THE SUN OF THE EAGLE
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AUSTERLITZ, THE SUN OF THE EAGLE

L20170155
€33.13
Austerlitz, its sun, its plain, the Santon, the victorious march, the pursuit, the frozen marshes, the role of Davout, the charge of the Guard Chasseurs, etc.
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GUIDES AND BODYGUARDS OF COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF
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GUIDES AND GUARDS OF THE COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF

L20170153
€15.17
The guides, formed by the necessities of war alongside general staffs (in the roles of escort, guard and dispatch), quickly became the object of generals' solicitude, a reflection of the military prestige of their commanders and a true praetorian guard.
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JENA-AUERSTEDT JENA-AUERSTEDT 2
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JENA–AUERSTEDT – The Triumph of the Eagle

L20170144
€27.01
Napoleon I's crushing victory over the Prussian army on 14 October 1806 was in reality the combined effect of two simultaneous but entirely distinct battles. Before Jena, Napoleon encountered the Prussian and Saxon army of Hohenlohe under numerical conditions favourable to the French army. From that perspective, the Battle of Jena in the strict sense was...
THE IMPERIAL GUARD VOL. 3
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THE IMPERIAL GUARD Vol. 3

L20170142
€14.69
The third volume of this successful series dedicated to the Emperor's elite phalanx completes the study of the Guard's cavalry.
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STURMGRENADIERE – History of SturmBataillon N°7 1916-1918
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STURMGRENADIERE – History of SturmBataillon No. 7 1916–1918

L20170139
€35.07
Inspired by F. Ristow's book "Sturmgrenadiere", published in Germany in 1959, this new book — a tribute to the author — is the fruit of complementary research in both French and German archives. "Sturmgrenadiere", version 2, enriched with an abundance of often previously unpublished iconography (German photographs, maps, sketches, drawings…), retraces the...
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"HOLD THE OAK LINE" The 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade vs. the Hitlerjugend "HOLD THE OAK LINE" The 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade vs. the Hitlerjugend 2
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"HOLD THE OAK LINE" — The 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade against the Hitlerjugend

L20170138
€55.92
Hold The Oak Line is a 496-page work. It describes the journey of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.It is the result of ten years of research. Drawing on entirely previously unpublished sources, this work covers the whole of the first part of 1944 and ends on 1 July, before the attack on Carpiquet and its airfield.
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Dieppe 1940-1944
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DIEPPE 1940–1944 – Unpublished Images & Testimonies

L20170140
€11.38 €22.75
This is not yet another book about the history of Dieppe during the Second World War, or about the Dieppe Raid — it is above all a document, meaning something that shows, that delivers views and viewpoints most of which are previously unpublished.
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Dunkirk 1940–1945: historical & tourist guide: itineraries Dunkirk 1940–1945: historical & tourist guide: itineraries 2
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Dunkirk 1940–1945: Historical & Tourist Guide: Itineraries

L20170127
€6.64 €13.27
The town of Dunkirk played a leading role during the Second World War, not only during Operation Dynamo in May and June 1940, but also during the final year of the conflict, when the Germans held on in a pocket that did not surrender until May 1945.
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FROM NORMANDY TO THE RHINE – 1944: Pas-de-Calais, Arnhem,...
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FROM NORMANDY TO THE RHINE – 1944: Pas-de-Calais, Arnhem, Ardennes, Walcheren

L20170116
€14.19 €28.39
1944 From Normandy to the Rhine: Pas-de-Calais, Arnhem, Ardennes, Walcheren From Normandy to the Rhine complements The Normandy Battlefields and brings together current aerial photographs and period images to provide an up-to-date interpretation of the battles, richly illustrated with maps, diagrams, and photographs. It is now 70 years since France and...
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LES JOURS SANS 1939–1949 FOOD AND SCARCITY IN WARTIME LES JOURS SANS 1939–1949 FOOD AND SCARCITY IN WARTIME 2
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LES JOURS SANS 1939-1949 FOOD SUPPLY AND SHORTAGES IN WARTIME

L20170031
€17.06
Finding food: the other battle "No more bread. No meat since the day before yesterday. So many poor people are suffering. Many shops have not opened, for lack of heating or goods to sell. Lyon is silent and almost deserted."William Brunat, 2 January 1941
1917 Canadians in Combat: Vimy, Lens and the Mining Basin 1917 Canadians in Combat: Vimy, Lens and the Mining Basin 2
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1917 Canadians in Combat: Vimy, Lens and the Mining District

L20170026
€13.27
It was in April 1917 that, for the first time, the Canadian infantry divisions were grouped together within a single army corps. This corps achieved a major early success by capturing Vimy Ridge on 9 April 1917 (and in the days that followed). This victory marked the birth of Canadian national identity through a glorious feat of arms.
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Dieppe 1942 - Americans in Action
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Dieppe 1942 - Americans in Action

L20170013
€11.37 €22.75
To approach the 1942 Dieppe Raid from a different angle and with a human perspective — that is the aim pursued in this book.
IN PURSUIT OF WEALTH – 1928
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THE CONQUEST OF WEALTH - 1928

Collliv0045
€18.96
Rockefeller - the Rothschilds - Nobel - Morgan - the Krupps - T.A. Edison - H. Ford - Lord Leverhulme - Aristide Boucicaut with 13 plates outside the text, paperback, 230x140, 294 pages,  Payot 1928
AT THE HEART OF THE COLD WAR: THE POTSDAM MILITARY...
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AT THE HEART OF THE COLD WAR: THE POTSDAM MILITARY MISSION 1947-1989

L20160329
€37.87
 The Potsdam Military Mission For more than forty years, the Military Missions of France, Great Britain, and the United States, attached to the Soviet High Command in Germany — the Potsdam Missions — operated behind the Iron Curtain to observe at close range the spearhead of Warsaw Pact forces stationed in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
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THE VIETNAM WAR 1945-1975
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THE VIETNAM WAR 1945-1975

L20160120
€35.07
From the end of the Second World War to the fall of Saigon in 1975, John Prados delivers the only complete account and the first comprehensive analysis of the Vietnam War. Drawing on recently declassified documents and a wide range of Vietnamese and international sources, the author paints a sweeping masterpiece in which ideologies and armies clash. He...
THE FRENCH ARMIES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
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THE FRENCH ARMIES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

L20160101
€36.97
The Thirty Years' War is a subject curiously little studied in France. This era was largely dominated by the personality and work of Richelieu, who joined the king's council in April 1624. It was the Cardinal's action that enabled Louis XIII to field an army that would emerge transformed from the Thirty Years' War. Commanded by great captains such as the...
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THE PANZER CORRIDOR - VOLUME 2, TO THE SEA ZUR KÜSTE: 16-21 MAY 1940
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THE PANZER CORRIDOR — VOLUME 2, TO THE SEA ZÜR KÜSTE: 16–21 MAY 1940

L20160062
€54.98
This second volume, devoted to the drama of May 1940, presents the great turning point of the battle. By the morning of 16 May 1940, the outcome of the battle was already sealed. The French High Command would try by every means to re-establish a front by throwing before the advancing German units formations hurriedly recalled from Holland or Belgium — and...
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THE ANONYMOUS HEROES OF SUMMER 44
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THE ANONYMOUS HEROES OF SUMMER 44

L20160040
€8.30 €16.59
They always refused to be regarded as heroes, yet during the summer of 1944 they lived through extraordinary adventures.
PROPAGANDA KOMPANIEN — REPORTERS OF THE THIRD REICH
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PROPAGANDA KOMPANIEN — REPORTERS OF THE THIRD REICH

L20160284
€37.87
The PK — the German propaganda companies — were the communications instrument of the Third Reich. These Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS servicemen served as the eyes and ears of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, covering both victories and defeats. While their photographs and films are well known, nothing has been said about the men behind the cameras and...
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THE SECRET AGENTS OF FREE FRANCE - THE BCRA
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THE SECRET AGENTS OF FREE FRANCE - THE BCRA

L20160251
€23.65
How did so few men manage, in just a few years, despite the relentless pursuit of German counter-intelligence services and the Vichy regime, to organize Resistance networks and gather so much intelligence?
Alpenkorps
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ALPENKORPS: THE GERMAN ALPINE CORPS 1915-1918

L20160155
€28.39
OUT OF PRINT ALPENKORPS, THE GERMAN ALPINE CORPS FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE HELL OF VERDUN The German Alpine Corps, created in May 1915 as the first major German mountain unit, fought until 1918 on several fronts.
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MEMOIRS OF THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE GREAT WAR MEMOIRS OF THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE GREAT WAR 2
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MEMOIRS OF THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICES OF THE GREAT WAR

L20160297
€10.43 €20.85
A graduate of the École Polytechnique and an artillery officer, Charles Dupont was assigned to the Intelligence Service in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair. He carried out several secret missions in Germany before taking command of the 2nd Bureau (Intelligence) of the Army General Staff in 1913.
SHARPE'S SWORD: RICHARD SHARPE AND THE SALAMANCA CAMPAIGN SHARPE'S SWORD: RICHARD SHARPE AND THE SALAMANCA CAMPAIGN 2
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SHARPE'S SWORD: RICHARD SHARPE AND THE SALAMANCA CAMPAIGN

L20160009
€9.24 €18.48
The Emperor's special envoy to Spain, the formidable Colonel Leroux has just uncovered the identity of the mysterious El Mirador — head of the largest spy network working against Napoleon from the city of Salamanca — when he is captured by Captain Richard Sharpe and his men. Colonel Leroux manages to conceal his identity from them and, the very next day,...
REIMS, 13 MARCH 1814 REIMS, 13 MARCH 1814 2
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REIMS, 13 MARCH 1814

L20160008
€18.96
Fortune's last smile
OUTPOSTS OF LIGHT CAVALRY
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OUTPOSTS OF LIGHT CAVALRY

L20160193
€52.13
"The author of this book had been one of the most brilliant cavalry officers of the Empire. A pupil of Lasalle, Montbrun, Colbert and Pajol, he seemed destined for the highest military honours when the disaster of Waterloo struck the Grande Armée. After fifteen years of absence, Lieutenant-Colonel de Brack returned to take his place at the head of our...
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