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Honour, Not Honours - Memoirs, Volume 2, The Captains'...
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In the first volume of his Memoirs, Pierre Montagnon recounted his war in Algeria, from November 1954 to 1961, in the ranks of the Legion's paratroopers. Returned to civilian life after 22 April 1961, he did not give up. Having clandestinely returned to Algiers to face the inevitable independence, he joined the team that would be named the "Soviet des...
Naval History of the Second World War
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Co-edition Perrin / Ministère des Armées Hundreds of thousands of works have been written on the Second World War, in dozens of languages. Many of them do indeed address the maritime dimensions of the conflict, the role played by the Royal Navy, the Kriegsmarine and the United States Navy, the role of the various naval forces on a given theatre of...
Charles Martel
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Charles Martel

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The victory over the Arabs at Poitiers in 732: this is about all that remains of Charles Martel in the collective memory. A mere skirmish, or a clash of civilisations that saved Europe from Islamisation? The significance of this famous battle has seen renewed interest in the current context and is the subject of vigorous debate. However, one would be...
Targeted Killings - A Critique of Armed Liberalism
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How is war waged in the 21st century? Primarily by drones, by eliminating the enemy before he can cause harm. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine or Pakistan, these operations known as "targeted killings " take place out of sight. Initially widely condemned in Europe and across the Atlantic, these practices became normalised from the 2000s onwards in the...
Summer 1870 - The War as Told by the Soldiers
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On 19 July 1870, Napoleon III fell into Bismarck's trap and declared war on Prussia. In a state of exaltation, seasoned soldiers and young recruits alike headed towards the eastern frontiers. No one could then imagine the catastrophe awaiting France. Defeated on its own territory, the country would lose Alsace and northern Lorraine before settling into a...
The French and the War of 1870
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The French and the War of 1870

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In July 2020, the country commemorated the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the War of 1870, which from 18 July 1870 to 28 January 1871 pitted France against a German coalition led by Bismarck's Prussia. Declared for a reason rooted in the Ancien Régime, this conflict is characterised militarily by extremely bloody battles that foreshadow those of the...
Memoirs of General Dietrich von Choltitz
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For our contemporaries, Dietrich Von Choltitz has the features of Niels Arestrup, who portrayed him masterfully in Volker Schlöndorff's film "Diplomatie", staging his fateful face-to-face with Swedish consul Raoul Nordling, played by André Dussollier. At the conclusion of their discussions, the military commander of Paris agrees not to carry out Hitler's...
From Antwerp to Dunkirk - 1940 War Memoirs
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This book traces the war of an ordinary soldier. In a sober style, Lucien Richard, a corporal conscripted into the 121st RI, gives a day-by-day account of the episodes of his campaign against Germany in 1940. Setting off like his comrades — confident and determined — to aid Holland, he is forced to face the reality: aircraft and tanks give the Germans an...
GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS
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Gallipoli, the Dardanelles — these names, almost forgotten from our history books, nevertheless mark one of the bloodiest battles in which the French Army took part during the First World War. This military campaign, contested from its very conception by the political world and decried by the general staffs, had been conceived by a single man: Winston...
Flight Through the Air in the Middle Ages - A Historical...
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In medieval sources, human flight is rarely addressed directly: the catastrophic attempt by English monk Eilmer of Malmesbury, the flying machine dreamed up by Roger Bacon, or the vessel floating above the air imagined by Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme stand as celebrated exceptions. Yet the question of flight was a genuine intellectual challenge for...
Hubert Germain - Mémoires d'un Compagnon de la Libération - Espérer pour la France Hubert Germain - Mémoires d'un Compagnon de la Libération - Espérer pour la France 2
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Hubert Germain is the last Compagnon de la Libération. He shares his testimony in this work. PRIX DE L'ARMEE DE TERRE ERWAN BERGOT 2020 "I am going to need you", General de Gaulle said simply to the young Hubert Germain when he arrived in England in June 1940, among the first Free French. Hubert Germain was 19 years old, would become a Knight of the...
La Lune est Claire – The French Foreign Legion in Combat...
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Nine officers of the French Foreign Legion have taken up the pen to recount the last decade of combat of this legendary unit. For the first time, the reader accompanies the men in their white képis in Afghanistan, French Guiana, the Central African Republic, and Mali. "Monsieur légionnaire" was everywhere France decided to fight. From training to the most...
WHEN THE ALLIES BOMBED FRANCE 1940–1945
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Quand les Alliés bombardaient la France sets out to explain the reasons for the raids, to describe their preparation, their execution — sometimes seen from the air, sometimes from the ground — and their results relative to objectives. Numerous first-hand accounts and a taste for precision take us inside both the cockpit of a bomber and the streets and...
ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in... ERNIE PYLE Summer 1944 - An American War Correspondent in... 2
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A war correspondent in Normandy. When he lands in Normandy on 7 June 1944, Ernie Pyle is the finest (Pulitzer Prize) and most popular of American war correspondents. Pyle owes this popularity to his ability to recount, simply and with great empathy, the stories of ordinary soldiers. During the summer of 1944, he follows the American troops from Omaha...
The Vikings – History & Tales
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The Vikings – History & Tales

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The great episodes of Viking history, from Erik the Red to Harald Fairhair, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, are retraced in documented accounts. From the lively pen of Jean Mabire, here is the fabulous history of the Vikings, kings of the seas, superbly told. Gathered here are the exploits of Erik the Red, Harald Bluetooth, Harald Fairhair and...
The Marshall Plan – At the Dawn of the Cold War
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"The Marshall Plan" is a pertinent and remarkably well-written work of diplomatic and economic history. Leaders and experts from around the world keep calling for a new "Marshall Plan", but how many truly understand what that plan was about, how it was created and how it was carried out? This book will open eyes and minds". Alan Greenspan, former...
Dispatches from Vietnam
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Vietnam Dispatches

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Vietnam Dispatches brings together John Steinbeck's final series of war reportages. Previously unpublished in France, this work gathers the chronicles written from 1966 for Newsday magazine by the man who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. John Steinbeck, aged 64, is already an ailing...
The Companions of the Liberation in Brittany
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Portraits of nearly one hundred men named Companions of the Liberation, across the five départements of historic Brittany. It is the most prestigious title of the Ordre de la Libération, created by General De Gaulle during the era of Free France, in exile in London. Completed after the war, it is a definitive list of 1,038 individuals, 5 French communes...
The German Failure on the Marne 30 May–13 June 1918
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This book is the translation of the work entitled Growing Difficulties 1918 – Futile Struggle in Front of Compiègne, Villers-Cotterêts and Reims, volume 33 of the series « Die Schlachten des Weltkrieges », published by the Reichsarchiv in 1930. No French translation of this book has ever been published, even though it had been translated after the war by...
In Search of the Lost Manuscripts of Chevalier Allent...
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In 1805, Chevalier Allent published, at the request of General Marescot, a Histoire du corps impérial du génie, intended as a first part covering origins through the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and calling for a continuation. In 1806, he appended to the état du corps impérial du génie a Précis de l'histoire des arts et instructions militaires in...
A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army
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The Fight Across Europe with the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division in World War II The untold story of Frank Lembo, one of Patton's men offering the rare perspective of what day-to-day warfare at the ground-level looked like in the European Theater through the eyes of one of the men spearheading the advance.
THE ROADS TO DIÊN BIÊN PHU – The True Story of 6 Men in...
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Six men, six destinies sacrificed in the machinery of war… In August 1944, at the Liberation of Paris, Jean-Louis Rondy enlists in the 2e DB. A few days later, Jean Guêtre lands in Provence as part of a shock troop unit. Pierre Latanne still remembers the arrest of his father by the Gestapo a year earlier and takes heart in the knowledge that his father...
GIGN: CONFESSIONS OF AN OPS
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GIGN: CONFESSIONS OF AN OPS

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Philippe B. should never have found himself in the position that was so often his over the past fifteen years: at the head of a GIGN assault column! Raised the hard way, his aptitude for martial arts brought him very early to the edge of ultra-violence and delinquency. Yet, ever since he watched live on television the famous GIGN assault on an Airbus at...
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