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Rendez-Vous avec La Mort – Recovered Memoirs of a Freedom...
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Rendez-Vous avec La Mort – Recovered Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (1936–1944)

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Salomon Ickovic was born in 1911 in a province of the Kingdom of Hungary that would soon become part of Czechoslovakia. Very young, like so many young Jews of modest origin, he joined the Communist Party and committed himself to the life of a fighter. In 1937 he joined the International Brigades in Spain, before taking refuge in France and joining the...
Oradour Fell Silent - The Tragic Fate of a French...
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Oradour Fell Silent - The Tragic Fate of a French Village, 10 June 1944

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On 10 June 1944, Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges, was annihilated by an SS division: 643 villagers lost their lives, the women and children asphyxiated then burned in the church while the men were murdered in barns. Giving voice back to the dead through the poignant testimonies of survivors, historian Robert Pike immersed himself in the archives to...
An Ordinary Father – In the Footsteps of Alfred Douroux,...
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An Ordinary Father – In the Footsteps of Alfred Douroux, the LVF and the Waffen SS

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On 27 March 1943, Alfred Douroux — Freddy to his friends, to the judges and to the police — enlisted in the Wehrmacht with the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme, the LVF. He pursued his career as a military collaborator in the Waffen SS, fighting in May 1945 among the ruins of Berlin, "a white silk scarf around his neck and a cigar...
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The True Story of the Daltons – Last Outlaws of the Far West
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The True Story of the Daltons – Last Outlaws of the Far West

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The Daltons: behind the pop culture icons lies a violent and little-known history. Their name, inseparable from that of Lucky Luke, evokes four bunglers whose misdeeds always blow up in their faces. But in the Far West of the late nineteenth century, they were feared outlaws who spread terror, and their fall, as brutal as it was spectacular, marked the...
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The Battle of Timimoun - Algeria 1957
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The Battle of Timimoun - Algeria 1957

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Carte blanche! When Lieutenant-Colonel Bigeard, commanding officer of the 3rd Colonial Parachute Regiment, reads the urgent telegram from General Salan, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Algeria, he knows he will have to play a high-stakes game. In the preceding weeks, the Saharan troops and the air force had been unable to track down the deserters...
Anthology of French Military Thinkers
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Anthology of French Military Thinkers

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From the white plume of Henri IV to Napoleon triumphant at the sun of Austerlitz, the French imagination has been nourished by feats of daring from the history of the armies to build a national military culture. The fruit of long-term work bringing together the finest specialists in military history, this anthology allows the reader to grasp its full...
Chronicles of the Liberation – From the Landings to...
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Chronicles of the Liberation – From the Landings to Nuremberg

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6 June 1944: the Allies land on the Normandy coast. 8 May 1945: the armistice between the Allies and Nazi Germany is signed. What happened in a year of fierce fighting and deadly tragedies? Which major events marked the long road to the liberation of France and all of Europe? From Paris to Alsace, from the USSR to Berlin, discover, day by day, the...
The French Colonial Empire - From History to Legacy...
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The French Colonial Empire - From History to Legacy (19th–21st centuries)

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, France established itself as a major colonial power (Maghreb, Africa, Asia, Oceania), driven by a policy of expansion deeply rooted in its political, economic and cultural history. This work addresses the debates it has sparked: the effects of these policies in metropolitan France and in the colonised countries, the...
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German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler
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German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler

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The history of German women's resistance to Hitler has spread mainly through the emblematic figure of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. But many women committed themselves against the National Socialist regime: lawyers, feminists, communists, aristocrats, members of the Red Orchestra, and Protestants alike. This book retraces the as little-known as...
The Women of Block 10 - Medical Experiments at Auschwitz
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The Women of Block 10 - Medical Experiments at Auschwitz

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The SS sent a thousand Jewish women from across Europe, including around 130 French women, to Block 10 at Auschwitz. On these women, considered inferior by the Nazi regime, gynaecologist Carl Clauberg tested a special sterilisation method. Other Nazi doctors also used this block for their experiments on human beings. This book is dedicated to their...
Napoleon Against Pius VII – Or How to Kidnap a Pope
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Napoleon Against Pius VII – Or How to Kidnap a Pope

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1799. Following the coup of 18 Brumaire, Bonaparte, now First Consul, made restoring civil peace in France and reintroducing the Catholic faith his priority. To that end he needed to renew ties with Rome, where a new pope, Pius VII, had just been elected. After long and difficult negotiations between the two men, the Concordat would revive the Church in...
50 Historical Dates of Ancient Rome
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50 Historical Dates of Ancient Rome

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Founded in 753 BC according to legend, Rome was at that time merely a modest village in Latium, before becoming — five centuries later — the hegemonic power of Italy and then, at the dawn of the common era, the capital of a Mediterranean empire that was constantly expanding while also seeking to integrate the peoples it had conquered. These 50 dates offer...
50 Historic Dates of Ancient Greece
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50 Historic Dates of Ancient Greece

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What is a "historical date"? In what sense can a moment be described as "historic" in our age, where the term is all too often overused? The question becomes even more complex in the case of Antiquity, where an event that seemed of great importance at the time may appear secondary to us today. Conversely, what was then regarded as a mere episode may now...
Warlords in Combat - Preparing for Battle in the 21st... Warlords in Combat - Preparing for Battle in the 21st... 2
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Warlords in Combat - Preparing for Battle in the 21st Century

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These words by Captain Charles de Gaulle, written in 1921, resonate today with particular intensity as conflicts intensify on our borders and the fragile balance of peace wavers. In this essay, Pierre Santoni tackles the crucial question of training commanders for combat. How do you prepare those who will bear the responsibility of leading the battles of...
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Léon Degrelle
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Léon Degrelle

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Truths and legends of the "Führex". Until his death, Léon Degrelle (1906–1994), leader of the fascist movement Rex, founder of the SS Wallonia Legion, and the last European National Socialist leader, represented for the far right the icon before whom one had to be anointed, on the occasion of a "pilgrimage" to Spain where he had taken refuge in 1945. This...
With Napoleon – Journal
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With Napoleon – Journal

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One of the greatest testimonies on Napoleon. Throughout his reign, Napoleon received Pierre-Louis Roederer — accomplice in the Brumaire coup, Councillor of State and later Senator of the Empire — a countless number of times in his study. This figure had taken to noting down scrupulously, often on the very same evening, the substance of these meetings,...
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CORSICA UNDER THE TEST OF WAR 1939–1943
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CORSICA UNDER THE TEST OF WAR 1939–1943

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October 1943: Corsica became the first part of French territory to be liberated. This decisive action for the subsequent operations — since the Allies would be able from this strategic base to organise their landings in Italy — was achieved largely through the action of the maquis fighters. Since 1939, the war had been a distinct experience for the island...
ROGUE HEROES - The Heroic Epic of the SAS, Special Air...
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ROGUE HEROES - The Heroic Epic of the SAS, Special Air Service

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The heroic and improbable epic of a band of British soldiers against Nazi Germany: the SAS, Special Air Service. Summer 1941. At the height of the war in the Western Desert, David Stirling, a young officer, has a bold idea — a new plan of attack: to surprise the enemy where he least expects it, behind his own lines. Despite opposition from the British...
THE RICE PADDIES OF SUFFERING – French Combatants in...
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THE RICE PADDIES OF SUFFERING – French Combatants in Indochina (1945–1954)

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From 1945 to 1954, thousands of young Frenchmen embarked for Indochina. Most of them enlisted in the conflict not to "bash Vietnamese", as has too often been claimed, but for economic reasons: finding work in a country devastated by the Second World War was extremely difficult at the time. Through an investigation drawing on the moving testimonies of...
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PAVIA 1525 – Francis I's Italian Failure
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PAVIA 1525 – Francis I's Italian Failure

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" Of all things, nothing has remained to me but honour and my life ": his troops heavily defeated, Francis I was taken prisoner at Pavia. An account of the defeat that came close to carrying away the kingdom of France. Pavia was an event with European repercussions. The four-month siege of the Lombard city and the battle itself pitted thousands of...
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

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A group of students who became a symbol of the German resistance against Nazism In 1942, the Second World War was at a tipping point, with Germany losing ground to Russia. In Munich, a small group of German students formed a clandestine network. Its name: "The White Rose". Among them was Sophie Scholl, a young woman barely 21 years old. Raised in a...
Repression in Franco's Spain 1939–1975
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Repression in Franco's Spain 1939–1975

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Repression in Franco's Spain 1939–1975: from memorial propaganda to historical reality A serious study of Francoist post-war repression had been missing. This work is, without doubt, a major milestone in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War. Having gained access to the previously unpublished archival holdings of the Cuerpo Jurídico Militar...
1940, The Allies' War Begins in Scandinavia 1940, The Allies' War Begins in Scandinavia 2
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1940, The Allies' War Begins in Scandinavia

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The Franco-British intervention at Narvik, in Norway, in May 1940, passed relatively unnoticed because, at that very moment, Germany was launching its victorious offensive against France. History, for this reason, retains little memory of these battles, which took place beyond the Arctic Circle. By examining these battles in detail, François Gatineau...
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The Nazi World - 1919-1945 The Nazi World - 1919-1945 2
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The Nazi World - 1919-1945

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On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the Reich. Since 1919 and the trauma of the Great War, the Nazis had developed a worldview whose only originality lay in its racist coherence and utopian impetus. They knew how to exploit the context of a major crisis — that of 1929 — to subjugate minds and seize power. Power was handed to them,...
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The First Algerian War - A History of Conquest and Resistance, 1830-1852 The First Algerian War - A History of Conquest and Resistance, 1830-1852 2
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The First Algerian War - A History of Conquest and Resistance, 1830-1852

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The "first Algerian war" began on 14 June 1830 at 4 o'clock in the morning, when the first French soldier set foot at Sidi-Ferruch. The conquerors immediately encountered a resistance force they had not anticipated, whose most emblematic figure remains the Emir Abd el-Kader. Two decades of confrontation of extreme intensity and violence followed. Marshal...
Churchill the Visionary Churchill the Visionary 2
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Churchill – The Visionary

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Churchill sounded the alarm about German militarism as early as 1908, about the Bolshevik threat from 1919, about the Nazi peril from 1932, about Stalinist imperialism from 1943… His "visions" contributed to making the statesman a "whistleblower," and this biography draws an original portrait of him on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth on...
The Marines - History of an American Myth
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The Marines - History of an American Myth

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This work allows the reader to discover the rich history of an elite corps that has become inescapable yet remains almost entirely unknown. Indeed, no one in France is familiar with its first hundred and fifty years before 1918 and the Battle of Belleau Wood; no one knows that it was initially scorned, mocked for its mediocre performance, cut back,...
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General Olry - Victor of the Alps - June 1940 General Olry - Victor of the Alps - June 1940 2
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General Olry - Victor of the Alps - June 1940

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A graduate of the École Polytechnique and an artilleryman, René Olry (1880–1944) belongs to that category of soldiers who, with equal distinction, earn the admiration of their superiors, their peers and their subordinates. A man of character, he combined exceptional intellectual abilities with unwavering determination. A specialist in mountain operations,...
The Honour of a Colonel - From Algeria to Kolwezi The Honour of a Colonel - From Algeria to Kolwezi 2
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The Honour of a Colonel - From Algeria to Kolwezi

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May 1978 – Kolwezi (former Zaire): thousands of Katangese rebels seize control of the city and hold hundreds of European hostages. Massacres begin… Faced with the urgency of the situation, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing launched Operation Bonite. Without warning, without ground support, without the possibility of reinforcements and with "scarce and...
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La Carlingue - The French Gestapo of 93, Rue Lauriston
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La Carlingue - The French Gestapo of 93, Rue Lauriston

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From 1940 to 1944, a gang of criminals led by Henri Lafont and Pierre Bonny — a petty swindler allied with a corrupt detective — placed themselves in the service of the German occupier, spreading terror and chaos across the French capital. Protected by the Nazis, this criminal organisation entered history under the name of the French Gestapo of the rue...
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Castelnau - The Vanished Marshal 1851-1944
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Castelnau - The Vanished Marshal 1851-1944

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General de Castelnau spans a century of French military and political history. Regarded by his contemporaries as one of the fathers of victory in the First World War, he fell victim to political machinations tied to his reputation as a Catholic conservative. Nicknamed the "booted friar" by Clemenceau, he was three times denied the marshal's baton that...
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The Resistance Years 1940-1944
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The Resistance Years 1940-1944

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It has often been said and written that the Resistance, by its clandestine nature, had left few archives. Yet new documents, regularly unearthed, continue to enrich its history. What were the first acts of refusal? How did the Resistance gradually take shape, moving from individual acts to collective action? What ties did the internal Resistance fighters...
Malplaquet 1709
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Malplaquet 1709

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In that year of 1709, the kingdom of France stood on the edge of the abyss. Engaged in the most brutal conflict of the entire reign — the War of the Spanish Succession — the country had already suffered defeat after defeat. In January, the Great Winter had added climatic catastrophe to military disaster. In May, the European states united against the...
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History of the Ninjas - Henchmen and Spies in Samurai Japan
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History of the Ninjas - Henchmen and Spies in Samurai Japan

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Ninjas – or shinobi – were men of the shadows. Before invading our literary and cinematic imagination, they lived in the age of warlords, in feudal Japan of the 16th century. One should not picture them dressed entirely in black, masked and perched on a rooftop, but rather dressed like country folk, blending into the crowd, undetectable. Their discretion...
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A Lieutenant with the Tanks - An Eyewitness at the Heart...
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A Lieutenant with the Tanks - An Eyewitness at the Heart of the 1940 Turmoil

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A Lieutenant with the Tanks is a previously unpublished account of the 1940 campaign, written by Claude Peignot, officer of the 5th BCP. Particularly vivid, it casts an unsparing eye on the operations, the competence of the commanders and the equipment. The notebooks are annotated and explained by Camille Vargas, an author specialising in world conflicts...
A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the... A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the... 2
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A History of French Military Signals from 1867 to the Present Day

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« The history of military signals is a fascinating story. Above all, it is a human adventure », writes General Jacques Eyharts, the "father of the Signals branch", in his preface. It is this adventure that this work — the first of its kind — recounts, in which the authors show how, from a simple army telegraph service, the French Signals Corps became an...
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