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THE PREPARATION FOR D-DAY - An incredible adventure
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THE PREPARATION FOR D-DAY - An incredible adventure

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The Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 constitute one of the most formidable military operations of all time. They required manpower and preparations on a scale previously unknown in military history. The course of the operations has given rise to a wealth of works, with the battle for the Norman beaches having been the major subject of predilection for...
1940: THE REASONS FOR A DEFEAT
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1940: THE REASONS FOR A DEFEAT

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To say that the campaign of May–June 1940 has generated an enormous amount of writing is an understatement: rarely has an event in French history left such a mark on our country. Several reasons can be identified: first and foremost, the French Army, which had emerged victorious from the First World War, was forced to lay down its arms after barely two...
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DING HAO! The Fabulous Epic of the Flying Tigers
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DING HAO! The Fabulous Epic of the Flying Tigers

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The Flying Tigers are legendary. Yet their true history is poorly known to the general public, and the most implausible rumours circulate about them, particularly in Europe. In 1967, aged just eight years old, the author became passionate about these aviators, their exploits, their aircraft, their battles. He never ceased researching the subject, and the...
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History of the Flag of France and Beyond
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History of the Flag of France and Beyond

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The history of a passion as ancient as it is unwavering. For all nations, the flag remains the most important and most powerful emblem in the minds of men, whether military or civilian. Did not Claudel say: " There are only two things to do with a flag: either brandish it at arm's length or press it passionately against one's heart "? Its history is...
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DEPORTATION DIARY, from Dachau to Natzweiler-Struthof
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DEPORTATION DIARY, from Dachau to Natzweiler-Struthof

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Musician and blind man: the journey of Arthur Poitevin, Resistance fighter and deportee. Born in 1917 into a family of fishing sailors from Port-en-Bessin, Arthur Poitevin lost his sight at the age of four. He received the providential support of a university professor who had himself become blind at that age. Arthur attended the Clermont-Ferrand...
SAS, les Indomptables, 1941-1945
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SAS, les Indomptables, 1941-1945

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The Special Air Service is today one of the most prestigious special forces in the world. But did you know that its history began in Egypt in 1941? David Stirling, Jock Lewes and Paddy Mayne, three young and impetuous British officers, put together a small unit to carry out daring raids behind Axis lines. Small groups of highly trained and highly mobile...
YVELINES - COMBATS 1944 Vol. 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944 YVELINES - COMBATS 1944 Vol. 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944 2
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YVELINES - COMBATS 1944 Vol. 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944

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History & Chronology of the fighting during the liberation of the Yvelines Volume 1 - 15 to 25 August 1944  The events of the liberation of Paris are well known. Those of the Grand West at the arrival of the Allies in the Île-de-France are far less so. On 17 August, Field Marshal Model, the new commander of the Western armies, passed through Paris to...
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The Stalin-Hitler Collaboration, 10 March 1939–22 June...
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The Stalin-Hitler Collaboration, 10 March 1939–22 June 1941. August–September 1944

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Since the German invasion of the USSR, Soviet propaganda — and in its wake Soviet historiography — has presented the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as the fruit of Stalin's supreme cunning: faced with France's and Britain's refusal to come to an understanding with the Soviet Union against the Nazi peril, Stalin supposedly chose to buy time in order to better...
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THEY WERE NOT YET 20 - The Revolt of Youth 1940-1944
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THEY WERE NOT YET 20 - The Revolt of Youth 1940-1944

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" Fighting France was nothing but a long dialogue between youth and life ", proclaimed Pierre Brossolette in 1943. The war against the German occupier was often waged by adolescents and, sometimes, even by children. The struggle of a generation that revealed itself through action in the service of freedom. Following the example of the young general who...
BEFORE MEIN KAMPF - The Formative Years of Adolf Hitler
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BEFORE MEIN KAMPF - The Formative Years of Adolf Hitler

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In Mein Kampf, the autobiography he wrote in 1924–1925, Hitler presents himself as a perfect self-taught man with a fully formed worldview. Yet the man in his thirties who entered politics at the end of the First World War had no fixed opinions, nor even strong antisemitic convictions. Drawing on Hitler's earliest texts — some translated here for the...
THE THREE DAYS THAT BROUGHT DOWN FRANCE - 11–13 June 1940
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THE THREE DAYS THAT BROUGHT DOWN FRANCE - 11–13 June 1940

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When France collapsed in June 1940, attention has often focused solely on the cabinet meeting of 16 June in Bordeaux, where President of the Council Paul Reynaud stepped aside to make way for Marshal Pétain. Yet this book, built on all available archives in Paris and Tours, shows that the Reynaud government — which left the capital amid the chaos of the...
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