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LIVING WITH THE GRANDE ARMÉE - Being a Soldier in the Age...
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LIVING WITH THE GRANDE ARMÉE - Being a Soldier in the Age of Napoleon

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In fifteen years, the Napoleonic Grande Armée, an unmatched war machine, won more victories than any other army before or after it... Austerlitz, Jena, the Moskova, Leipzig and Waterloo have already generated much ink, but these battles are often analysed from the standpoint of strategy and tactics. Yet the Napoleonic Wars were above all a human story....
HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal...
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HE WAS MY CHIEF - Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Principal Secretary

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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...
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GREEN BERET - Commander Kieffer's Account of 6 June 1944

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Béret Vert testimony of Philippe Kieffer, edition presented and annotated by Benjamin Massieu A family man with no military experience, Philippe Kieffer nevertheless became the founder and commander of the Free French commandos. Trained at the formidable Achnacarry camp, these volunteers carried out secret raids on the European coastlines. They were the...
MAN OF ACTION - Die or Survive in Service of the Nation
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MAN OF ACTION - Die or Survive in Service of the Nation

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Embedded with a marine commando from the special forces Already sold to more than 10,000 readers, discover the new edition of the extraordinary testimony of a former French Army marine commando, through 10 true accounts of missions carried out by exceptional servicemen. At the heart of extreme experiences and ultra-violent situations, Julien B. takes us...
SAP-R2 1943-1944, Parachute Drops and Landings in...
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SAP-R2 1943-1944, Parachute Drops and Landings in Provence - Volume 1, Chronicle of a...

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During the Second World War, arming the Resistance was a vital issue for Free France — an eminently complex and lengthy task to implement. Succeeding the first parachute drop networks set up by Jean Moulin in the south of France, the SAP-R2 emerged in late 1943 as the only organisation capable of rivalling the British SOE-F and the American OSS. From that...
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THE MAN FROM TRIPOLI - The Untold Account of a DGSE Station Chief

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Tripoli (Libya), mid-February 2011. From the first signs of unrest in the country, the French authorities, against all expectations, decide to evacuate their nationals and close the diplomatic mission. Within it, the DGSE's external intelligence station ceases its activities and begins destroying its equipment and archives before the keys to the embassy...
44 EXTRAORDINARY D-DAY DESTINIES Volume 2
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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...
The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648
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The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648

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Between 1618 and 1648, Europe was ravaged by war. No synthesis has until now shown with such clarity the violence and the scope of this civil and European war. The first clashes of the Thirty Years' War broke out in Bohemia in 1618, with the Defenestration of Prague. What at first appears to be an act of rebellion by Protestant-leaning nobles against the...
INDOCHINA 1946–1954 – Unpublished Testimonies
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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...
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The Military Revolution of Year II, 1794 between Flanders and the Moselle

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The campaign of 1794 is first and foremost that of Year II (21 September 1793 – 20 September 1794). Unprecedented in its scale of men, challenges and materiel, it mobilises the efforts of the young Republic. It is also a period in which grand operational plans mature; the "système général" will be their synthesis and the matrix for the major campaigns to...
SECRET SERVICES IN INDOCHINA
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SECRET SERVICES IN INDOCHINA

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The opium affair, the piastre traffic, the disasters of Diên Biên Phu and the RC4, the "Roi Jean": in all these episodes, the French intelligence services played a major role. When the French Expeditionary Corps lands on the Saigon docks, the high command has no idea it is embarking on an eight-year conflict. The war the French will wage in the cities,...
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THE QUASI-WAR - The conflict between France and the United States, 1796-1800

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Who knows that France and the United States went to war? In the second half of the 1790s, these two formerly allied powers entered into open conflict. Although war was never officially declared, French and Americans clashed in naval engagements on both sides of the Atlantic, seizing each other's vessels in large numbers and causing several thousand dead...
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