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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...
LE GÉNÉRAL CAILLAUD - Soldier of the Extraordinary
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LE GÉNÉRAL CAILLAUD - Soldier of the Extraordinary

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Born in 1921, a graduate of Saint-Cyr in the infantry arm in 1942, Robert Caillaud belonged to that generation of fire which, after the defeat, restored the prestige of French arms and continued to serve them with distinction in the theatres of the Far East and Algeria. "Red Devil" in de Lattre's Army, he entered the Légion étrangère world in the...
THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His... THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His... 2
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THE MUSSOLINI ENIGMA - The Man. His Challenges. His Downfall.

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Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique 2021; Prix du Nouveau Cercle de l'Union 2022; Le Point's list of the 30 books of the year 2021. "The" biography of Mussolini. A historical and literary event. "This book is neither a biography of Mussolini in the strict sense nor a history of Italian fascism, but the first attempt — and not only in France — to try to...
B-17 KILLER - Memoirs of an Ace with 33 Victories
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B-17 KILLER - Memoirs of an Ace with 33 Victories

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Heinz Knoke enlisted in the Luftwaffe in 1939, driven by passion, a taste for adventure and a sense of duty. After a brief training period, he joined the day-fighter arm and flew the Messerschmitt Bf 109. He took part in the Battle of Britain, where he faced Spitfires, then in the war against the USSR, initially with great success. He escorted convoys in...
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DUELS UNDER THE STARS - Memoirs of a Nachtjagd Pilot
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DUELS UNDER THE STARS - Memoirs of a Nachtjagd Pilot

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LAST COPY BEFORE PERMANENT OUT OF STOCK Credited with 34 victories between 1940 and 1945, Hauptmann Wilhelm Johnen was no ordinary ace: he belonged to the very exclusive circle of Nachtjagd aces, the German night-fighter arm. Tasked with defending German airspace against Allied — primarily British — nocturnal bombing raids, these pilots led extraordinary...
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GAMELIN - The Tragedy of Ambition
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GAMELIN - The Tragedy of Ambition

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Gamelin, or the quintessence of military disaster. Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958) remains a figure indelibly associated with the crushing defeat of May 1940. It is worth looking beyond that commonplace and asking: how did this officer, regarded as one of the most brilliant of his generation, for whom everything had succeeded since his earliest youth and who...
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Hérault at War 39/45 - Voices of Witnesses
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Hérault at War 39/45 - Voices of Witnesses

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André, Édith, Jean, Paulette, René, Suzanne, Vincent and so many others… Men and women from the Hérault, swept up by the upheavals of History, recount their experiences. Preserving the memory of the "bearers of memory" — the resisters and deportees of the Second World War — is the purpose of this catalogue. It gathers and analyses around one hundred...
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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...
PANZER KOMMANDEUR - At the heart of the Panzertruppen,...
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PANZER KOMMANDEUR - At the heart of the Panzertruppen, memoirs of Hans von Luck

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Panzer Kommandeur - The war memoirs of Hans von Luck, an officer who served in the most prestigious Panzer-Divisionen from 1939 to 1945, at last accessible in French! Having fought on every front — from the plains of northern France in 1940, through Russia in 1941, Libya and Egypt in 1942, Normandy and Alsace in 1944, and finally Germany in 1945 — von...
In the Storms of History - Memoirs of Colonel de La...
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In the Storms of History - Memoirs of Colonel de La Chapelle - From the Phoney War to...

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In April 1961, Colonel de La Chapelle commanded the famous 1er régiment étranger de cavalerie. Convinced that "there are things that simply are not done", he chose to commit his unit to the Algiers putsch. This courageous officer began his career at the age of 20 as a simple soldier. During the twenty-seven years in which he would serve France under arms,...
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Callsign Clochette — Medical Officer of the BEP and REP — 70 Years in Service of the Legionnaires Callsign Clochette — Medical Officer of the BEP and REP — 70 Years in Service of the Legionnaires 2
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Callsign Clochette - Medical Officer of the BEP and REP - 70 Years in the Service of...

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No one leaves the REP without having left a part of themselves behind. For 70 years, having served in one of the Foreign Parachutist Battalions and Regiments has remained a unique human and professional experience for all the officers, non-commissioned officers, and legionnaires who one day stepped through the door of an aircraft alongside the men of the...
Grenadier of the Guard, Memoirs of Commandant Monnot Grenadier of the Guard, Memoirs of Commandant Monnot 2
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Grenadier of the Guard, Memoirs of Commandant Monnot

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Account of Claude Monnot: enlisted as a Vélite, promoted to Grenadier of the Guard in 1806, and incorporated into the Fusiliers Grenadiers in 1807. The Vélites: creation, organisation, uniform, daily life and field engagements. The Briquet sabre of the Fusiliers Grenadiers. Who were the musicians of the band of the Foot Grenadiers of the Guard? Figurine...
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Jean-Baptiste Charcot – Polar Explorer
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Jean-Baptiste Charcot – Polar Explorer

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When Jean-Baptiste Charcot was born in 1867, virtually all the land on the globe had been mapped, with the exception of the poles. It was these polar lands that the explorer — though originally destined to become a doctor — would patiently reveal to the world. He would bring back from his voyages to Antarctica aboard the Français, and then the celebrated...
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