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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

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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

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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 » In Pacification en Algérie, a work previously unpublished in France, Lieutenant Colonel David Galula, a leading theorist elevated to the rank of "Clausewitz...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

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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

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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

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« 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

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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

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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

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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

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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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