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KGB - The True History of the Soviet Secret Services
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KGB - The True History of the Soviet Secret Services

L20200146
€21.80
Dive into the heart of the most fascinating of secret services: the KGB. Thirty years have passed since the USSR collapsed in December 1991. Since that date, archives have opened in Moscow, personal testimonies have multiplied, and revelations have followed one upon another. In particular concerning the most secretive pillar of the Soviet system: the KGB.
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN 1796-1797 - From Nice to Leoben, an...
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ITALIAN CAMPAIGN 1796-1797 - From Nice to Leoben, an autopsy of Napoleon's first campaign

L20200137
€28.34
The virtuosity of a general with no real experience of war — that is above all what one remembers of the Italian Campaign. Indeed, Bonaparte's genius was to astonish the world and, two centuries later, still arouses the same fascination. Who could fail to marvel at this young general who, through the application of new military principles he had pondered...
TILSIT IN 1807 – WAS IT THE COLD THAT DESTROYED THE...
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TILSIT IN 1807 – WAS IT THE COLD THAT DESTROYED THE FRENCH ARMY IN 1812?

L20200135
€14.22
Translated into French for the first time, the previously unpublished account of the meeting on the Niemen between Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon, and of the fraternisation celebrations between Russian and French soldiers, by a Russian officer present on the scene. In the second part, an essay by that same witness, Denis Davydov, who, some years after...
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SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 2
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SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955

L20200123
€22.75
Only a part of the history of secret agents parachuted into Europe during World War II is known today — that of the clandestine agents of the SOE, the BCRA or the Abwehr. Drawing on destinies that have remained in the shadows until now, Gaston Erlom recounts a few successes and several tragedies of this struggle. But most of the parachute drops into...
RED DEATH – The War Memoirs of a Stalin's Sniper
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RED DEATH - The War Memoirs of a Stalin Sniper

L20200121
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The war memoirs of Lioudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet female sniper — By Lioudmila Pavlichenko With 309 "kills" to her name, Lioudmila Pavlichenko is the most decorated Soviet female sniper of World War II. From her youth, through her enlistment in the Red Army, to the fascinating details of her missions and the role played by Kremlin propaganda in the...
IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE – The Journey of an Intelligence Officer
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IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE – The Journey of a Shadow Officer

L20200119
€18.01
This book is an adventure novel inspired by memories of true stories in some cases, and often lived experiences in others… The locations, countries, identities and course of these missions are not all real, or are often only partly so, in order to distance them in time and space. The author noting that it could not have been otherwise, so as not to risk...
THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception 2
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THE CUNNING WINS! - An Anthology of Military Deception

L20200118
€18.96
What does military deception consist of? Is it indispensable for victory, as Sun Tzu claims, or merely incidental, as Clausewitz suggests? How has it been used throughout the centuries? What is the situation today? With what results? Does one have the right to deceive one's adversary in all circumstances and by all means? Are there rules, a doctrine? Does...
DE GAULLE IN HELMET – A New Approach to the Drama
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DE GAULLE UNDER FIRE – A New Approach to the Drama

L20200117
€23.70
A gripping account of a brief but violent period in the life of General de Gaulle who, from 28 May to 5 June 1940, resisted the Germans on the Somme at the head of five hundred tanks.
ALSATIAN PRIESTS CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE REMEMBER
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ALSATIAN PRIESTS CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE REMEMBER

L20200113
€23.70
AROUND TEN PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNTS BRING BACK TO LIFE THE FATE OF YOUNG ALSATIANS DESTINED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, IN AN ANNEXED ALSACE-MOSELLE, CONSCRIPTED BY FORCE FROM AUGUST 1942 INTO THE GERMAN ARMY.
The Strange Capture, May 1940 – Unpublished Notebooks of...
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The Strange Capture, May 1940 – Unpublished Notebooks of a 1st Army Staff Officer

L20200108
€16.02
"That evening, a coded telegram was received from Grand Headquarters, the content of which was as follows: 'Commander Fauvelle has set out your situation to me and to Mr Paul Reynaud. I do not underestimate your difficulties. I am counting on you to save everything that can possibly be saved, in honour of the colours in your keeping.' For anyone who can...
History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End...
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History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End of the 19th Century

L20200105
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While works on the two most recent world wars abound and every aspect has been covered in exhaustive detail, it seemed important to us to republish Alfred Donéaud's work, which — without prejudging the considerable developments of the late 19th and 20th centuries — recounts with simplicity and precision the History of the French Navy from its origins to...
THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY
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THE WILD PURGE IN NORMANDY

L20200079
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The elimination of collaborators by the Resistance, outside any judicial framework, between 1943 and 1946 in Normandy Spread over three years, from 1943 to 1946, the so-called wild purge claimed around a hundred victims in Normandy. This figure must be set against the legal purge carried out between 1944 and 1947: 39 individuals were shot after being...
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RWANDA, THE END OF SILENCE - Testimony of a French Officer
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RWANDA, THE END OF SILENCE - Testimony of a French Officer

L20200075
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Preface by: Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau Against the heavy secret surrounding France's true role and that of its army during the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, Guillaume Ancel sets the truth of his field notebooks — a testimony to the missions in which he took part during Operation Turquoise. The end of silence is also the account of the struggle waged by...
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PACIFICATION IN ALGERIA
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PACIFICATION IN ALGERIA

L20200074
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« I left Hong Kong in February 1956 (…) I was tired of the intelligence world, I had missed the war in Indochina, I thought I knew enough about insurgencies and I wanted to test some of my theories. » In Pacification en Algérie, a work previously unpublished in France, Lieutenant Colonel David Galula, a leading theorist elevated to the rank of "Clausewitz...
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1940 - TRUTHS AND LEGENDS
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1940 - TRUTHS AND LEGENDS

L20200073
€12.32
The defeat of 1940: how did it come to this? On 13 May 1940, three days after the start of the German offensive, the lines of the French army were breached. On 17 June, Pétain called for a cessation of fighting. On 22 June, the armistice was signed in the forest of Compiègne. On 10 July, deputies and senators voted full powers to the Marshal. In two...
THE NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF CAMP
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THE NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF CAMP

L20200072
€21.14
Between 1941 and 1945, Alsace, annexed to the Third Reich, saw the establishment of one of the deadliest concentration camps of the Second World War: KL-Natzweiler. Of the 52,000 individuals who passed through it, more than 20,000 never returned, victims of terrifying detention conditions, devastating scientific experiments and merciless "death marches"....
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THE DRAMA OF 1940 - General André Beaufre
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THE DRAMA OF 1940 - General André Beaufre

L20200071
€18.01
« The wind of History, when it rises, overpowers the will of men, but it is for men to foresee these storms, to contain them, and even, at the limit, to know how to harness them. » A member of the Grand Quartier général at the time of the Wehrmacht's invasion of France, General André Beaufre was the powerless witness to a collapse without precedent in...
THE SOLDIERS OF 1940. A SACRIFICED GENERATION
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THE SOLDIERS OF 1940. A SACRIFICED GENERATION

L20200067
€22.75
The history of the « phoney war », which mobilised five million French soldiers from 1939 to the defeat of June 1940, has long been reduced, in our national memory, to the Fernandel of La vache et le prisonnier or the adventures of La Septième compagnie. Eighty years after that « strange defeat », the heroes of Dunkirk or of the Maginot Line — prisoners...
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I WAS HITLER'S PILOT - Hans Baur
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I WAS HITLER'S PILOT - Hans Baur

L20200066
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An exceptional testimony from someone close to Hitler Hitler, who overcame his fear of flying to make intensive use of it from the presidential election of 1932 onward, never wanted any pilot other than Hans Baur. A fighter pilot during the Great War, a pioneer of military airmail and one of the founders of Lufthansa in 1926 — in whose service he tested...
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DES AILES DANS LES JAMBES – Memoirs of André Courval FAFL...
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DES AILES DANS LES JAMBES – Memoirs of André Courval FAFL 1939–1945

L20200065
€18.48
After three escapes in answer to General De Gaulle's call, André Courval enlisted in 1940 in the Free French Air Forces. His Memoirs, enhanced by drawings from his own hand and personal photographs, recount the odyssey of a flying crew member from sub-Saharan Africa to the liberation of France.
RUDOLF HESS The Last Enigma of the Third Reich
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RUDOLF HESS The Last Enigma of the Third Reich

L20200052
€23.70
The first biography of Hitler's designated successor. The Hess file ranks first on the list of great historical «enigmas», alongside the death of Napoleon, the secret of the Man in the Iron Mask and the assassination of President Kennedy…
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