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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...
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