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François Louis Tesseidre de Fleury (1749–1799) – King's...
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François Louis Tesseidre de Fleury (1749–1799) – King's Officer in the Service of the...

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François Louis Tesseidre de Fleury – American Hero, Unknown Frenchman: the career of a King's officer in the service of the American cause. In France, the torch of the American War of Independence is held by the emblematic figure of Lafayette. This representation distorts every parallel that could be drawn with the commitment of those who, before him,...
Memoirs of Claude Monnot 1800–1815 – Grenadier of the...
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Memoirs of Claude Monnot 1800–1815 – Grenadier of the Imperial Guard

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Account of Claude Monnot: enlisted as a Vélite, promoted to Grenadier of the Guard in 1806 and integrated into the Fusilier-Grenadiers in 1807. Commandant Monnot lived through everything. Who can claim to have witnessed the Coronation at Notre-Dame in the ranks of the Imperial Guard, and then that of the newly crowned King of Italy receiving the crown of...
I Was a Tank Crewman in the 2nd DB I Was a Tank Crewman in the 2nd DB 2
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I Was a Tank Crewman in the 2nd DB

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This account is that of a Frenchman born in Morocco who was among the first to join the 2e DB in North Africa, trained as a tank crewman and incorporated into the 12e régiment de cuirassiers (12e RC). His narrative takes us through the fighting in Normandy, Alsace and the German campaign, as well as to the Royan pocket. In an altogether exceptional...
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HITLER / MUSSOLINI: THEIR BAPTISM OF FIRE — YPRES 1914 -...
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HITLER / MUSSOLINI: THEIR BAPTISM OF FIRE — YPRES 1914 - 1915 ISONZO

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This book offers a completely original approach to the baptism of fire of two key figures of the 20th century: Hitler and Mussolini. For the first time, their two destinies in the Great War are presented as a mirror image, with their own testimonies, in order to show their reaction under fire. The battles in which they were engaged are described in detail...
BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY 2
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BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY

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The remarkable story of Bob Denard, the mercenary of the Fifth Republic — one of the greatest military figures of the 20th century. This larger-than-life condottiere showed from a very young age a marked taste for adventure and combat. At 16, he enlisted in the Royale, which he left six years later at the end of the Indochina War. This was only the...
COLONEL PASSY - General de Gaulle's Master Spy
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COLONEL PASSY - General de Gaulle's Master Spy

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The story of Colonel Passy (1911–1998) is above all the story of an extraordinary destiny. The 29-year-old captain who rallied to Free France as early as 1940 was among the handful of volunteers without whom General de Gaulle could not have hoped to succeed in his audacious gamble: to secure France a seat at the victors' table in 1945. With no prior...
CAN'T HURT ME
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CAN'T HURT ME

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MASTER YOUR MIND AND DEFY YOUR FATE For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare — poverty, racial prejudice, and family violence punctuated his days and haunted his nights. A depressed, overweight young man with no future in sight, unable to run more than 500 metres, he would nonetheless choose to take his destiny into his own hands. Through an...
The Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism Vol....
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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...
CHARLES LE COCQ - Officer of France
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CHARLES LE COCQ - Officer of France

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Born in Rennes in 1898, this son of a Breton civil servant prepared from adolescence to enter the École de Saint-Cyr. Graduating on 17 August 1918, he would be engaged on every theatre of operations without interruption. From the First to the Second World War, through the desert, Charles Le Cocq fought relentlessly: the recapture of a village under German...
DEPORTATION DIARY, from Dachau to Natzweiler-Struthof
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DEPORTATION DIARY, from Dachau to Natzweiler-Struthof

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Musician and blind man: the journey of Arthur Poitevin, Resistance fighter and deportee. Born in 1917 into a family of fishing sailors from Port-en-Bessin, Arthur Poitevin lost his sight at the age of four. He received the providential support of a university professor who had himself become blind at that age. Arthur attended the Clermont-Ferrand...
JEAN GABIN, War Is No Movie!
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JEAN GABIN, War Is No Movie!

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BOOK BEING REPRINTED – AVAILABLE 6 December 2023 This evasive reply, written by Michel Audiard for Jean Gabin in Sous le signe du taureau (Gilles Grangier, 1969), is telling. Above all, it testifies to the discretion of this adopted Norman regarding his involvement during the Second World War. Thus, nearly fifty years after his death, and nearly eighty...
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MY WAR OF 1870 - Diary of a Prussian Soldier
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MY WAR OF 1870 - Diary of a Prussian Soldier

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From July 1870 to June 1871, Fusilier Fritz Fischer was on campaign: he fought several times, marched a great deal, and discovered a country — France! 2,500 km on foot, around a hundred different billets — some for a single night, others interminable such as the two months spent in the mud before Metz — major battles (Gravelotte, Orléans…) and skirmishes,...
TILL THE JOB IS DONE - Letters from the Front
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TILL THE JOB IS DONE - Letters from the Front

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Illustrated with newly colorized period photographs and battlefield relics, discover for the first time the complete correspondence of an American officer of the 4th Infantry Division, from the Norman fields to the dark Hürtgen Forest, by way of the Liberation of Paris! Poignant letters and a true story that prompt us to reflect on the ravages of war and...
THE BUHARA ADVENTURE - Resistance and Deportation -...
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THE BUHARA ADVENTURE - Resistance and Deportation - 1940–1945

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On the evening of 12 February 1941, in the Bay of la Fresnaye, 15 young men — including 9 trainee pilots and their instructor — boarded the Buhara in silence to join England and General de Gaulle's Free France. Louis Delabruyère, barely 20 years old, was one of them. But their attempt failed... A rare and thoroughly documented personal account of the...
Officers' Fates – When Objects Bear Witness
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Officers' Fates – When Objects Bear Witness

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The names of Generals Dupas, Dessaix and Chastel are engraved on the pillars of the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile. Recognised under the First Empire for their military merits and heroic acts on the battlefield, held in esteem by their soldiers as well as by Emperor Napoleon I, they have nonetheless fallen into obscurity. Even in Savoy, from which all three...
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UNTIL THE FALL – Memoirs of Hitler's Butler
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UNTIL THE FALL – Memoirs of Hitler's Butler

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The last great firsthand account of Hitler in private. SS Commander Heinz Linge (1913–1980) served for ten years as Adolf Hitler's butler. This former bricklayer joined the military ranks in 1933, initially becoming a bodyguard. He gradually entered his master's inner circle, becoming one of his most loyal attendants. Here at last is the French...
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MARSHAL NEY
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MARSHAL NEY

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An ambiguous hero. Who does not know Marshal Ney? He stands alongside Murat, Lannes and Lefebvre as one of the best-known and most popular Marshals of the Empire. Indeed, nothing was lacking to secure him a prominent place in the Napoleonic epic — neither bravery, nor victories, nor misfortunes. The Marshal first won his popularity during the...
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Baldur Von Schirach - From the Hitler Youth to the...
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Baldur Von Schirach - From the Hitler Youth to the Deportation of the Jews of Vienna

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From the upper echelons of the Prussian bourgeoisie, Baldur von Schirach spent his childhood in the shadow of his father, who was committed to the far right. An ambitious young man, Baldur rose rapidly through the Nazi system: he joined the NSDAP at 18 and became leader of the Hitler Youth at 24. He managed its direction and organisation, overseeing the...
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They Chose Death Rather Than Dishonour - 1939-1945
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They Chose Death Rather Than Dishonour - 1939-1945

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Their names are Bertrand, Justin, Berty, Maurice, Pierre, Jean, Henri, René-Georges, Godefroy, François. Airmen, sailors, soldiers, fighters of the Free French, resistance members — all refused defeat and the occupation of their country, some as early as June 1940. In the darkest hours of History, driven by the same values of freedom and independence,...
War in the Feminine - They Fight for France
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War in the Feminine - They Fight for France

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They are helicopter pilots, paratroopers, bomb disposal experts, base commanders or intelligence officers… But who are they really? How did they get there? How did they establish themselves in a man's world? Dorothée Olliéric, senior correspondent, went to meet these women, who open up here about their vocation and the reasons for their commitment. Their...
GENERAL DELESTRAINT - The Resistance: from the Secret...
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GENERAL DELESTRAINT - The Resistance: from the Secret Army to Dachau

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In the exclusive service of France — until death. Born in 1879, died in deportation in 1945, Charles Delestraint is an unjustly obscure figure in French military history. Yet throughout his life, his successive commitments — up to the ultimate sacrifice in the Resistance — earned him a place in the Panthéon in 1989. A graduate of Saint-Cyr, he served as...
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THE EXILE OF THE COLLABORATORS 1944-1989
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THE EXILE OF THE COLLABORATORS 1944-1989

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Ministers at Vichy, police chiefs, press magnates, radio presenters, cinema actors or ordinary individuals, they left in August 1944 in the wagons of the enemy and then went into hiding. For some, their exile lasted 45 years! Yves Pourcher offers us here a gallery of history's shipwrecked souls. August 1944. The day before, they had still been ministers,...
FIGHTING FOR UKRAINE - 10 Soldiers Speak
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FIGHTING FOR UKRAINE - 10 Soldiers Speak

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A writer, a student, businessmen, a lawyer, a female politician — there are currently 57,000 women fighters serving in the Ukrainian army — as well as a major Latvian farmer, a 61-year-old Georgian and even Russians — among them a former FSB officer. All recount their experience in this war of another century in terms of its violence and intensity. All...
FROM THE PORTE DE LA CHAPELLE TO INDOCHINA - The Journey...
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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...
"Without hesitation, I took the tricolour cockade..."...
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"Without hesitation, I took the tricolour cockade..." Memoirs of General de Montfort

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Memoirs of General de Montfort, Officer of the Corps of Engineers during the Revolutionary and First Empire Wars « Since Smolensk, we had, so to speak, not seen the enemy, [...] there had not been, strictly speaking, since the beginning of the campaign, a pitched battle, one of those battles that decide the outcome of a campaign, sometimes of an empire,...
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Gamelin or the Constrained Strategy Gamelin or the Constrained Strategy 2
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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...
KORVETTENKAPITÄN KENTRAT — From the cruiser Emden to U-196 KORVETTENKAPITÄN KENTRAT — From the cruiser Emden to U-196 2
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KORVETTENKAPITÄN KENTRAT — From the cruiser Emden to U-196

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We have gathered all the archives of Korvettenkapitän Kentrat and will be presenting an exceptional colour album devoted to the career of this distinguished sailor, featuring more than 600 photographs and documents. Born in 1906 in Moselle, he entered the Reichsmarine in October 1925 as an ordinary seaman and rapidly rose to become an officer. We follow...
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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STICK ACTION SPÉCIALE - An operator from the 1er RPIMa...
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STICK ACTION SPÉCIALE - An operator from the 1er RPIMa tells his story

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Finding his preparatory maths studies deadly dull, Alexandre Alex dreams of joining the army and becoming a "commando", though he has no real idea what that might actually mean. When a recruiter tries to sell him the role of "computer commando" in order to steer him toward signals rather than inform him about special forces, Alexandre comes close to being...
LA REVOLTE DES CENTURIONS - An Officer at the Algiers Putsch
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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...
THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms 2
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THE DESERT WAR 1941–1943 – Heroes and Feats of Arms

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North Africa: its dunes, the thirst, the suffocating heat, its endless tracks and its heroes. For if the Desert War, from 1941 to 1943, left its mark through the great tank battles that took place there and the special units that took part, one must not forget that this war was also a human story. From the ordinary soldier stoically manning his anti-tank...
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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...
GOERING - The Iron Man
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GOERING - The Iron Man

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The biography of a larger-than-life figure in every sense of the word, in the "Masters of War" collection. Hermann Goering, the second most powerful figure in the Third Reich, served simultaneously as Prussian Minister of the Interior, President of the Reichstag, master of the Four-Year Plan, and Reich Master of the Hunt. But Goering was above all a...
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HEALTH AND SPIRITS EXCELLENT - Prisoner of War 1939-1945 HEALTH AND SPIRITS EXCELLENT - Prisoner of War 1939-1945 2
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HEALTH AND SPIRITS EXCELLENT - Prisoner of War 1939-1945

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The journey of Sergeant Jean Voleau, between combat and captivity, traced through his correspondence On 2 September 1939, France is on the eve of declaring war on Germany in response to its invasion of Poland. But already a train is heading towards the Meuse and the German border, carrying a battalion of the 14th Algerian Rifles regiment. Seated on a...
CHARLES NUNGESSER - A Life in Images of an Ace Conquering... CHARLES NUNGESSER - A Life in Images of an Ace Conquering... 2
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CHARLES NUNGESSER - A Life in Images of an Ace Conquering the Skies

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Charles Nungesser, the pilot who set out to cross the Atlantic by air with his comrade Coli, and who never arrived... An extraordinary mystery that, a century later, remains unsolved. Patrick de Gmeline paints a detailed portrait of this man and this pilot with an exceptional career: with thirty citations on his Croix de guerre, including 28 palms and 2...
PANZER KILLER - Vasiliy Krysov, a Soviet tank soldier in... PANZER KILLER - Vasiliy Krysov, a Soviet tank soldier in... 2
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PANZER KILLER - Vasiliy Krysov, a Soviet tank soldier in the Great Patriotic War

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PANZER KILLER — The gripping combat accounts of a Soviet tank soldier during the Great Patriotic War. - The war memoirs of Vasiliy Krysov, Soviet tank officer who fought at Stalingrad and Kursk, now available in French for the first time! The war memoirs of Vasiliy Krysov, a Soviet officer engaged in the titanic battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, in...
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