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SNIPER
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SNIPER

L20240158
€20.85
Effective, rugged and modern are certainly the adjectives that best define the author's approach to the instruction and employment of snipers. With this new work, Philippe Perotti provides the essential tools for making the most of the .338 Lapua Magnum calibre. He also develops a wide range of aspects of the specialty that significantly enhance the...
Immediate Action Techniques
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Immediate Action Techniques

L20240157
€27.49
This manual dedicated to "Immediate action techniques" complements the shooting technique manuals from the same publisher. The authors share their experience by describing, in this essentially practical work, a clear and precise method for teaching "small-unit combat techniques". Immediate Action Techniques (IAT) enable: 1 - to instruct collective...
14-18 - OREP 14-18 - OREP 2
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14-18 - OREP

L20240155
€27.39
"Nothing was ever the same again as it had been before…" On 4 August 1914, just over a month after the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne, Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, predicted: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." The eclipse would...
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INVASION NORMANDY 1944 INVASION NORMANDY 1944 2
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INVASION NORMANDY 1944

L20240154
€30.33
An excellent overview of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy. Approximately 670 photographs, some in colour, plus maps and documents all in colour. Here you will find the result of nearly half a century of research. Following the immense success of l'Invasion Journal Pictorial, we present here a more compact version with the same highly detailed...
Who Liberated Provence? Who Liberated Provence? 2
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Who Liberated Provence?

L20240153
€53.08
During my missions in the United States, I observed that the American public — apart from historians and people from the South, from where most of the units and GIs in the Mediterranean actually originated — was primarily captivated by Overlord and the operations launched from Normandy. This is understandable given the difference in the forces engaged,...
TRANSMISSIONS 1900–1940. History of Equipment, vol. 01
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TRANSMISSIONS 1900–1940. History of Equipment, vol. 01

L20240147
€39.81
This book grew out of a technical inventory compiled by the author, covering French military radio equipment from its origins to 1940. It focuses on the most representative sets, complementing their descriptions with a wealth of period photographs — often previously unpublished — or photographs of surviving examples that are the pride of collectors and...
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Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940 Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940 2
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Women in the Service of France - 1939-1940

L20240146
€28.34
Drawing on the experience of the Great War, women supported by militant feminists undertook a reflection on the role of women in wartime. Studies and initiatives were numerous and covered every field: the Air Force, the Army, support for soldiers, air first aid, parachuting... Before long, the "drôle de guerre" put an end to these promising deliberations...
The D-Day Ports - The Allies Nearly Faced Disaster
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The D-Day Ports - The Allies Nearly Faced Disaster

L20240145
€19.81
Recounting the history of the D-Day ports by relating events as they are commonly recorded does not allow for a full understanding of the overall arrangements established by General Morgan to carry out Operation Overlord, whose objective was the final collapse of the Reich. I It clearly distinguishes between the Normandy beaches and ports, usable in the...
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The Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes The Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes 2
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The Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes

L20240144
€37.44
Kampfgruppe Peiper was the spearhead of the 6. Panzer-Armee in the Ardennes, tasked with clearing the way for the German armoured thrust toward the Meuse and Antwerp. Endowed with considerable firepower, it gathered the most motivated veterans of the Third Reich. Peiper's unit was to drive forward without regard for its flanks, seizing the bridges...
The Captain Made His Escape - account of a sensational...
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The Captain Made His Escape - account of a sensational escape in the Belle Époque

L20240143
€24.64
A member of the French secret services, Captain Charles Lux was arrested on 3 December 1910 in Friedrichshafen, while preparing to infiltrate a zeppelin hangar housing the famous German airships... Tried for espionage before the High Court of Justice in Leipzig, he was convicted — despite the absence of evidence of his intentions — and sentenced to serve...
The French Navy: A World of Contrasts
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The French Navy: A World of Contrasts

L20240142
€65.31
In the French Navy, the daily life of crews is shaped by striking contrasts unknown in any other profession: modernity and tradition, obedience and command, storms and flat calms, night and day, communal life and solitary existence, vast expanses of ocean and the confinement of a closed world — all of these run through every mission and every life at sea....
Commando Kieffer – 177 Faces of D-Day
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Commando Kieffer – 177 Faces of D-Day

L20240141
€36.02
The book that gives a face back to the 177 heroes of Commando Kieffer! On 6 June 1944, at dawn, the 177 French berets of the 1st Marine Fusiliers Commando Battalion landed on Sword Beach alongside the Allies. They were the only French combatants to land on the Normandy beaches. At their head, a banker turned commando: Philippe Kieffer. Although these...
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