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FIGHTING FOR UKRAINE - 10 Soldiers Speak
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FIGHTING FOR UKRAINE - 10 Soldiers Speak

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A writer, a student, businessmen, a lawyer, a female politician — there are currently 57,000 women fighters serving in the Ukrainian army — as well as a major Latvian farmer, a 61-year-old Georgian and even Russians — among them a former FSB officer. All recount their experience in this war of another century in terms of its violence and intensity. All...
THE CAT ON THE DUNE - Field Journal and Operations of a... THE CAT ON THE DUNE - Field Journal and Operations of a... 2
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THE CAT ON THE DUNE - Field Journal and Operations of a French Officer in the Sahel...

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Preface by Michel GOYA The author donates his royalties to Terre-Fraternité, an association supporting the wounded and bereaved families of the French Army. The fruit of ten years' experience in operations conducted by France in the Sahelo-Saharan strip, this work recounts the experience of a senior officer engaged in operations. Far from being merely a...
"Without hesitation, I took the tricolour cockade..."...
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"Without hesitation, I took the tricolour cockade..." Memoirs of General de Montfort

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Memoirs of General de Montfort, Officer of the Corps of Engineers during the Revolutionary and First Empire Wars « Since Smolensk, we had, so to speak, not seen the enemy, [...] there had not been, strictly speaking, since the beginning of the campaign, a pitched battle, one of those battles that decide the outcome of a campaign, sometimes of an empire,...
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AS THE SHADOW ADVANCES – High-Risk Mission in Syria
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AS THE SHADOW ADVANCES – High-Risk Mission in Syria

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In March 2011, amid the wave of the Arab Spring, children from a village in southern Syria wrote graffiti on the wall of their school. Their arrest by the Syrian government's security services and the abuse they suffered would become the trigger of the Syrian revolution, initially peaceful. From the summer of 2011, this revolution took on the character of...
The DST on the Cold War Front
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The DST on the Cold War Front

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In 1944, amid the still-smouldering ruins of a Europe devastated by a conflict that claimed more than 50 million lives, another war began — silent, insidious. A war of shadows and dirty tricks. A war in which these two great blocs — East and West — would confront each other: the USSR and its satellites on one side, the United States and its allies on the...
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TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action Speaks
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TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action Speaks

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"I was a hostage. I lived through dark hours, locked in the cells of an Islamist Katiba. I had made myself a promise: if I survive, I will bear witness to what I lived through. That prospect helped me not to sink into despair or madness. I am a soldier, a man of the field, a former member of the Service Action of the DGSE. All my life I chose danger,...
THEY LED THE ALLIES TO VICTORY – Patton, de Lattre and...
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THEY LED THE ALLIES TO VICTORY – Patton, de Lattre and Their Peers

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What does daily life look like for the generals commanding tens of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in 1944–1945, facing the German armies? How do they establish their leadership among their subordinates? How do they influence their superiors? Do they look after their men, and do they care about the human cost of operations? Do they make good...
Gamelin or the Constrained Strategy Gamelin or the Constrained Strategy 2
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Gamelin or the Constrained Strategy

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The name of Maurice Gamelin inevitably calls to mind the generalissimo held responsible for the defeat of 1940, a military disaster of incalculable consequences. His condemnation seems beyond appeal. Yet a thorough study of the man tends to challenge many certainties about his actual culpability. Casting a dispassionate eye — far removed from bitter...
The German Naval Base at Brest 1940–1944
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The German Naval Base at Brest 1940–1944

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This book traces the history of the German naval base at Brest from the beginning of the Occupation to the liberation of the city by American forces in September 1944. It is the result of research conducted in various French and German archives, both civilian and military, and enables the reader to better understand the intentions of the Kriegsmarine —...
The Rochambelles: Ambulance Drivers of Fighting France...
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The Rochambelles: Ambulance Drivers of Fighting France 1943–1945

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Florence Conrad, a wealthy American who had served as a nurse during the Great War, formed an ambulance unit in 1943. With funds she raised, she purchased nineteen Dodge vehicles and recruited the first volunteers in New York. These women, sometimes very young, were determined to liberate France and shrank from nothing. In 1943, the Rochambelles — who...
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Bir Hakeim — Event and Memory Bir Hakeim — Event and Memory 2
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Bir Hakeim — Event and Memory

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Bir Hakeim. The name rings out like a defiance. The victorious defence of Bir Hakeim by the Free French Forces marked a turning point in the history of General de Gaulle and the Free France movement, launched under difficult conditions in 1940. The military and political project had as its objective to return France to the war after the defeat of the...
CAO BANG 1950 — First French Disaster in Indochina
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CAO BANG 1950 — First French Disaster in Indochina

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Cao Bang — the first great French defeat in Indochina. Four years before the resounding defeat of Diên Biên Phu, less well known but equally deadly, the fighting that unfolded in October 1950 on both sides of Colonial Route No. 4 in the wake of the evacuation of Cao Bang led to the first disaster for the French Far East Expeditionary Corps. This reversal...
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