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LORETTO, NOTRE-DAME-DE-LORETTE SEEN FROM THE GERMAN SIDE
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The battle of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette seen from the German side The terrible battle of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette seen from the German side. For the Germans as for the French, the fighting there reached an intensity rarely seen elsewhere on the front. It can be compared to that of Les Éparges, in the heights of the Meuse. The recapture of the hill, lost as early...
Objective: Special Forces
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Objective: Special Forces

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Joining the special forces is the objective you will achieve if you follow Matt's programme with determination. After twenty years wearing the prestigious green beret, Matt wanted to write this guide for younger people who wish to follow in his footsteps. He sought to share his experience: to provide the keys to making that dream a reality. And to build a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SECRET WARS: INTELLIGENCE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FROM THE...
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Secret wars have always been an inescapable reality of armed conflict and constitute one of the most subtle and refined forms of military art. Away from public scrutiny, far from the media and observers, a silent, invisible yet very real war is being permanently waged. The men who wage it serve within highly specialised units, versed in so-called...
The Indochina War - Dictionary The Indochina War - Dictionary 2
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The Indochina War - Dictionary

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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...
THE LAST SQUARE - Fighters of Honour and Lost Soldiers...
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The spirit of sacrifice throughout history. " Merde! The Guard dies and does not surrender ". The famous retort, attributed to General Cambronne at Waterloo, illustrates contempt for death and authentic sacrifice: that which consists in voluntarily giving one's life for a man, a cause, an ideology, or a homeland. Contrary to what one might think, such...
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...
PANZER KOMMANDEUR - At the heart of the Panzertruppen,...
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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 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,...
Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry Songs and Traditions of the Marine Infantry 2
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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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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...
UNDER THE EMPEROR'S DICTATION
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UNDER THE EMPEROR'S DICTATION

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Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon remains very much alive in the memory of mankind. At Saint Helena, between 1815 and 1821, during the six years of his captivity, the emperor, who had filled the world with admiration and dread, took refuge in the past. He spent his days retracing the deeds and gestures of his military and political life,...
A UN Blue Helmet Among the Khmer Rouge – Journal of a...
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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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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...
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...
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 Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport (1914–1917)
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20,000 Leagues Across the Seas — The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport presents itself as a collection of letters written between August 1914 and January 1917 by the first mate of the cargo ship Pamir to his closest friend, mobilised as a gunner aboard a battleship. Through these dispatches, we follow the ship's constant movements across the most varied of...
The British Soldier - The Forgotten Victor of the Second...
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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 BLACK ANGEL OF THE GESTAPO - Normandy 1942-1944
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Who exactly was this black angel of the Gestapo in Normandy? Marie-Clotilde de Combiens, a young woman of 22 in 1943, made a name for herself by becoming the mistress of the head of the Sipo-SD branch in Caen, Harald Heyns alias Bernard. Having found each other on a train between Paris and Cherbourg, Marie-Clotilde and Bernard would complement one...
Julien Lenoir - Collaborator from Caen
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Historian Yves Lecouturier presents a new chapter in the story of collaboration in Normandy from 1940 to 1944: a portrait of one of the most significant figures of the collaboration in Caen, a city severely tried by the Battle of Normandy.
The Restored Honour of General Partouneaux after the... The Restored Honour of General Partouneaux after the... 2
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Or, The Affair of the 29th Bulletin of the Grande Armée It is precisely the desperate struggle of General Partouneaux's 12th Infantry Division and the 30th Cavalry Brigade under General Delaitre — attached to it just days before the crossing of the Berezina — that this work reconstructs in its entirety, drawing on the testimonies of those who fought it...
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...
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...
History of Military Orders or of Knights - Book 4, From...
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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...
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From...
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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...
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 2, From 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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