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Edouard Brémond - The Anti-Lawrence of Arabia
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Who still remembers the light column launched in the conquest of Antananarivo (Madagascar)? The creation of the first Moroccan tabors? The French military mission to the Hejaz (Saudi Arabia)? The Cilicia campaign (Ottoman Empire)? Who still knows the name of General Édouard Brémond (1868–1948)? And yet! When his retirement entitlements were calculated,...
The Grognards Speak – 400 Testimonies from Napoleon's...
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Unpublished correspondence of soldiers and officers of the First Empire held at the Service historique de la Défense (1794–1815) The history of the Grande Armée is a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...
HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal...
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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...
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...
Normandy 1944 - They Did It Normandy 1944 - They Did It 2
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Normandy 1944 - They Did It

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Normandy 1944 - Forty Veterans Recount The result of more than 30 years of encounters on the D-Day beaches, They Did It, Normandy 1944 presents around forty Allied veterans — infantrymen, paratroopers, commandos, airmen, tank crews, nurses and sailors — recounting with emotion their experience of D-Day and the battles that followed. So many exceptional...
VLADIMIR PUTIN - As seen by the Russians
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Action Magazine Special Issue For more than twenty years, Vladimir Putin has established himself as a key figure in global political affairs. Some hate him, others are devoted to him. In any case, he leaves no one indifferent. The war in Ukraine, which has been officially ongoing since 2022 but began as early as 2014, has unleashed in the West an...
INDOCHINA 1946–1954 – Unpublished Testimonies
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March 2024: commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu The Indochina War has passed into history, as the last witnesses gradually leave us. On the initiative of La Sabretache, a military history society, fourteen veterans of the French Expeditionary Corps in the Far East recount their memories as soldiers. They were then young...
WORDS OF A FREE FRENCHMAN WORDS OF A FREE FRENCHMAN 2
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WORDS OF A FREE FRENCHMAN

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The odyssey of a man who escaped from France through Spain Born in 1921, the Norman Michel Cherrier plunges back into his youth: the defeat of 1940, the occupation of Caen, arrests, the demarcation line, his escape across the Pyrenees in late 1942 — at over 2,000 metres altitude — with a single goal: to join Free France. Imprisoned for six months in...
André Bollier "Vélin" – Heroic Craftsman of the...
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André Bollier was barely 21 years old and finishing his studies at Polytechnique when, in June 1941, he was tasked by Henri Frenay with organising and distributing Combat, the newspaper of his movement. A tireless worker, he brilliantly managed to combine his career as an engineer, his family life and the production of newspapers, leaflets and forged...
War Diary of a Free French Doctor – With de Gaulle...
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A doctor in Pointe-Noire at the time of the declaration of war, Jean Vialard-Goudou joined the Free French Forces as early as July 1940 and, from Eritrea to Syria and from Libya to Tunisia, organised first aid for the wounded of the principal military campaigns in which the 1re BFL and then the 1re DFL took part, on or near the battlefield. From this...
CENT POUR SANG – The History of the 100th Bombardment... CENT POUR SANG – The History of the 100th Bombardment... 2
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The history of the 100th Bombardment Group of the 8th Air Force during the Second World War They flew their first missions from England in the spring of 1943. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily over occupied Europe to destroy the war machine of Nazi Germany. Their bravery and the appalling losses they suffered earned them the nickname Bloody...
JOSEPH DARNAND - From Glory to Disgrace
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The biography of a Great War hero who became a cardinal figure of the Collaboration. As the commemorations of the years 1944-1945 approach, how can we forget that certain "heroes" of the Great War and the fighting of May-June 1940 sank into the worst compromises? Among all the works devoted to the Second World War, the Resistance and the Occupation,...
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