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Normandy 1944 - Heroes of the Landings Normandy 1944 - Heroes of the Landings 2
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Normandy 1944 - Heroes of the Landings

L20240205
€13.27
On 6 June 1944, the Canadians who landed at Juno Beach risked their lives to save Europe from Nazi barbarism. So that they are not forgotten, war memorials and funerary steles are erected, streets are named in their honour; thousands of white crosses stand in impeccable rows in the cemeteries; the memory of these Canadians is honoured during historical...
READY? JUMP! With the First French Military Paratroopers READY? JUMP! With the First French Military Paratroopers 2
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READY? JUMP! With the First French Military Paratroopers

L20240202
€20.85
This fascinating saga traces both the training of the first parachute instructors of the French Air Force and the creation of the first Air Infantry Groups. It is this period of wild enthusiasm, often tempered by dashed hopes, that this work recounts with humour and finesse, written in a lively style that reads like a vivid adventure story. The author...
The Battle of the Bulge – Hitler's Last Gamble
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The Battle of the Bulge – Hitler's Last Gamble

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€22.75
In 1940, the manoeuvre that would seal the fatal fate of the Allied armies can be summarised in two stages. Alongside the diversionary attack carried out in the Netherlands and Belgium, the German armoured mass first rushed to assault its enemy in the Ardennes. After a chaotic period of a few days, it finally crossed the Meuse after brushing aside the...
Chesapeake - The French Naval Victory That Changed the World Chesapeake - The French Naval Victory That Changed the World 2
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Chesapeake - The French Naval Victory That Changed the World

L20240195
€25.50
A tactical success achieved in a few hours of violent cannonade, the Battle of the Chesapeake Bay is above all a strategic victory: the glorious day when the Royale changed the history of the world. This engagement is a reminder of the decisive role of naval combat in high-intensity warfare. At the head of a fleet transformed in response to the defeat of...
1939-1945. The World War of Secret Services
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1939-1945. The World War of Secret Services

L20240192
€23.70
The years 1939-1945 saw not only the great military confrontations that are well known, but also the shadow battles that remain largely unknown. Those that this groundbreaking book reveals to us in its vivid pages lead us from discovery to discovery, from the most unexpected to the most astonishing. How Hitler neglected his spies, while the French...
The Kamikazes (1944-1945)
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The Kamikazes (1944-1945)

L20240191
€22.75
"Mother, your son is about to carry out an attack [...] but rather than as your son, it is as a son of the homeland that I shall consider myself then." In October 1944, with Japan's war already lost since the previous year, the tokubetsu-kōgeki-tai, or "special attack corps," were formed: the pilots who made them up were trained to dive their aircraft,...
The Sacrificed Resistance in France - 1943
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The Sacrificed Resistance in France - 1943

L20240181
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The story of a branch of the Resistance in France and the collapse of the Prosper network, a British resistance network. The Sacrificed Resistance in France, 1943 — the end justifies all means The content of this work is part of the history of a very important branch of the resistance in France against the German occupation from 1940 to 1944, namely that...
AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World
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AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World

L20240175
€21.80
"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...
THE STRATEGY OF DESTRUCTION - Allied Bombing in France, 1944
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THE STRATEGY OF DESTRUCTION - Allied Bombing in France, 1944

L20240174
€24.64
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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At the Outposts - From Afghanistan to the Gates of Europe...
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At the Outposts - From Afghanistan to the Gates of Europe - Tales from the Armoured...

L20240168
€20.38
Dragons, chasseurs, cuirassiers, hussards, légionnaires, marsouins, spahis or tankistes… The cavalry soldiers have taken part in every French military operation over the past fifteen years. From Afghanistan to Africa, via the Middle East and now on the eastern flank of Europe, they hold the outposts, reconnoitring, gathering intelligence and fighting,...
Stalingrad - Chronicle of a Foretold Defeat
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Stalingrad - Chronicle of a Foretold Defeat

L20240152
€28.34
Many books have addressed the Battle of Stalingrad — and for good reason: it is one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War and, in many respects, one of the turning points on the Eastern Front. Urban combat, the "war of rats", the fierce resistance of the Red Army with its back to the Volga, the encirclement of an entire German army — which then...
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Red Berets – June 1944: A French S.A.S. Paratrooper's...
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Red Berets – June 1944: A French S.A.S. Paratrooper's Account

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€18.86
On the night of 5 to 6 June 1944, as the Allied armada approached the Normandy coastline, 36 Frenchmen were dropped behind enemy lines. They belonged to the 2nd Parachute Hunter Regiment attached to the British Special Air Service (the famous S.A.S.). Their mission: to prepare the arrival of their unit in Brittany. Nearly 450 French paratroopers were...
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