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SUBMARINES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – All classes, all...
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Between 1939 and 1945, some 2,500 submarines patrolled every sea on the globe. Erminio Bagnasco, a prominent Italian specialist in submarine warfare, has catalogued and detailed all the classes of submarines committed to combat by the eight major naval powers of the era (Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Japan, the United States, the Netherlands and...
PACIFIC PROFILES VOL 1 - Japanese Army Fighters New...
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• Volume One of Pacific Profiles presents detailed profiles and descriptions of Japanese Army Air Force aircraft and units operating in New Guinea and the Solomons from December 1942 to April 1944 The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese aircraft in the "South Seas" theatre. Volume One illustrates,...
AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN COINS...
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Ancient coins have long fascinated generations of collectors by virtue of their beauty, the stories they tell, and for the unique insight they give into the history of the time in which they were made. They can be held, felt and examined without the need for visiting a museum – they are, quite literally, living history.
CAFE RACERS - Speed, style, rock and roll, rebellion
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Speed, style, rock and roll, rebellion: these are the pillars that formed the foundation of Café racer culture. Famous for "doing the ton" (exceeding 100 mph on public roads), the "ton-up boys", as they came to be known, forged a reputation that preceded them throughout the United Kingdom and across Europe.
MAURIENNE 1940
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MAURIENNE 1940

L20200124
€34.12
On 3 September 1939, following Hitler's invasion of Poland, France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. Italy, an ally of that country, announced its non-belligerence. Autumn and winter passed in reinforcing the defensive dispositions amid a certain torpor. In spring, the snowmelt revived the transalpine threat. From 10 May onwards, with the...
COMBAT AIRCRAFT FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT DAY
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This book offers a detailed analysis of more than fifty military jet aircraft that have transformed the face of air operations from 1945 to the present day. Among the aircraft featured are pure interceptors, bombers, and reconnaissance platforms, as well as modern multirole aircraft such as the F-35 Lightning II with its short take-off and vertical...
JUNE 1940 THE BATTLE OF ABBEVILLE – From the Rhineland to Caen with the Company of the "List" Regiment
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The chronicle of the journey of the horse-drawn infantry gun company of the famous "List" Regiment, which distinguished itself in 1914 and was also the regiment of one Adolf Hitler. Day by day, we follow this unit from the Rhineland to Normandy, passing through Saint-Quentin, Amiens, Le Havre, Rouen and Giberville, near Caen. Day by day, we share the...
WALKS THROUGH MEDIEVAL FRANCE
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WALKS THROUGH MEDIEVAL FRANCE

L20200114
€18.86
This highly practical illustrated book is a genuine synthesis of all the noteworthy medieval sites in France: churches, fortified towns, villages, châteaux, abbeys, cathedrals... A unique synthesis.
13th DEMI-BRIGADE OF THE FOREIGN LEGION – The Magnificent...
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The 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion. The "13th". A legend. The regiment of all victories — those of Narvik and Free France, from Bir Hakeim to Colmar. Then came Indochina and Algeria. The regiment was twenty years old, twenty years of war. And then Djibouti: a patch of "French" soil on the Horn of Africa, with its train of all-round...
THE FRENCH ON D-DAY
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THE FRENCH ON D-DAY

L20200111
€23.60
It is very often forgotten, but the men of Commando Kieffer were not the only Frenchmen to have taken part in the Normandy Landings. On 6 June 1944, 38 French paratroopers jumped behind enemy lines or were delivered by glider. At dawn, 177 marine fusilier commandos were the first to set foot on Sword Beach, while at sea, twelve French vessels, carrying...
LETTERS TO ELISE - A History of the Franco-Prussian War...
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Through nearly 250 previously unpublished letters, discover for the first time the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 through the eyes of Prussian soldiers: from the entry into the war to the repatriation of troops to Germany, through the first battles in Alsace and Lorraine, the fighting against the Army of the Loire, the siege of Paris, and the Commune —...
PEARL HARBOR – An Illustrated History
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7 December 1941. 7 o'clock in the morning. Japanese bombers and fighters sweep down by the hundreds on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack has one objective: to destroy the American fleet and allow Hirohito's empire to take control of the Pacific. And the operation will be a success: the raid enables Imperial Navy pilots to sink numerous...
HISTORY OF SHIPS IN ANCIENT CHINA
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Set out to discover an unexplored world. This book is a gateway to the fascinating world of ancient China. From prehistory to the mid-19th century, this voyage through the centuries, in the company of Professor Xi Longfei, will take you from wonder to wonder. This book will make you learn and dream: the epic of the Maritime Silk Road, the invention of...
US MARINES – Semper Fi – At the Heart of the Action
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A celebrated elite American combat force, the Marines play a key role in American overseas operations. Subject to a very high level of readiness, the Marine Corps is unique within the American military organisation, as it can deploy air, ground and maritime assets in conflicts anywhere in the world and within very short timeframes. Among the most...
GLIÈRES 1944 – History of the Fighting in February and March 1944
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Glières 1944. More than 60 years ago, the Battle of Glières was a "great and magnificent adventure" (Malraux) that shed the blood of more than a hundred Resistance fighters from Haute-Savoie. This episode, a symbol of Resistance to the Nazi occupation and to the Vichy Order Maintenance Forces (Milice and GMR), had never previously been examined from a...
NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt… the history of the Hundred Years' War as it is taught is punctuated solely by great land battles, chevauchées across France, and sieges of towns and fortresses. Reading these accounts, one would never imagine that this long conflict was also a naval war — that squadrons clashed at sea, that numerous merchant vessels were sunk...
ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated at Saint-Martin-de-Ré
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What cyclist riding through the salt marshes around Loix, or what summer visitor swimming at the Pointe des Sablanceaux, suspects that these peaceful places witnessed bloody clashes during an attempted conquest of the Île de Ré in 1627? That year, in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, the kingdom of Louis XIII was attempting to recover some semblance...
MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6–7 July 1794 The French Victory at Waterloo
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While everyone knows the Battle of Waterloo, or Mont-Saint-Jean, in 1815, few people know that this site had already seen French and Coalition armies clash in July 1794. That year, having won a success — all in all limited — at the Battle of Fleurus, the French Army of Sambre-et-Meuse under General Jourdan continued the fight to prevent the forces of the...
AFGHANISTAN 2011–2012 The Lafayette Brigade V in Kapisa
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In 2010, the 1st Mechanised Brigade of Châlons-en-Champagne stood up Task Force La Fayette V, designated to serve the following year in Afghanistan, a state plunged for four decades into a particularly deadly conflict. It was in the majestic but extremely dangerous setting of that distant country that these men carried out their duty as soldiers with...
U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES 2
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U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS VEHICLES

L20200086
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The standardisation of the American army's vehicle fleet would take time before being achieved in the early 1940s. In parallel, modern and powerful signal equipment was being developed, and it had to be made mobile. Among the major vehicle families of the U.S. Army, one finds trucks, workshop trucks, vans and trailers designed by the Signal Corps,...
SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 2
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With this Guide Militaria and its 30 period uniforms presented on living mannequins, the author invites you to rediscover the silhouettes of French servicemen and women of the Algerian War. A representative sample covering the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Gendarmerie, without overlooking female personnel or other formations little known to the...
GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS...
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Through a fascinating collection of testimonies and numerous photographs from veterans of the "LSSAH" division, the German author Thomas Fischer takes us into the world — often poorly understood — of artillery… and what is more, that of the 1st Waffen-SS division! A welcome change from the Panzers or the Grenadiere, the world of the Artilleristen is just...
NATO COMBAT AIRCRAFT
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NATO COMBAT AIRCRAFT

L20200082
€37.44
This book presents in detail the combat aircraft of the air forces of every NATO member nation, whether a founding member or one that joined more recently, illustrated by more than 600 profile drawings and around 300 period photographs.
LINE INFANTRY Volume 1 - 1776–1810
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For Napoleon, "the infantry is the soul of the army". It did indeed comprise the greater part of the combatants under arms. We shall examine closely these "pousse-cailloux" — foot soldiers who tramped across Europe in every direction for nearly a quarter of a century. With the exception of the particular case of the Imperial Guard, the French infantry...
GERMAN CIVIL & MILITARY DECORATIONS 1919–1945
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This work, without equivalent in the French language, presents all German military decorations instituted between 1935 and 1945, in the form of detailed reference sheets accompanied by high-quality photographs, by Jörg-M. Hormann, followed by the civil decorations (including those of the RAD and the Westwall, among others) presented by Volker A. Behr....
INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment... 2
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It is 1799 when the 76th demi-brigade d'infanterie, then part of the Army of Helvetia under General Masséna, lost its colours in the engagement at Sernft against the Austrians. Later incorporated into the VI Corps of the Grande Armée, the 76th Line Regiment, commanded by Colonel Faure-Lajonquière, fought at Elchingen on 14 October 1805, a victory that...
75 OBJECTS OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS
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Through 75 objects drawn from Bertrand Paris's remarkable Normandy collection, we have attempted to restore to D-Day and the Battle of Normandy the faces and the objects of those who took part in it. Some serve to illustrate a date or an event; others, particularly moving, bring back to life a face, a sacrifice, a body laid forever in the Norman soil....
ALL THE ARMORED VEHICLES OF THE FRENCH ARMY - From... ALL THE ARMORED VEHICLES OF THE FRENCH ARMY - From... 2
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2nd edition of Tous les blindés de l'armée française des origines à 1940, by François Vauvillier. When France entered the war in September 1939, its rearmament effort since the adoption of the first new-model equipment in 1935 had been considerable: more than 2,700 modern combat vehicles — tanks and armoured cars — had been delivered over four years by...
LES BLANCS-SABLONS LE CONQUET 25 April 1513 – The Franco-Breton Navy Repels the Royal Navy
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Every summer, the Blancs-Sablons beach at Le Conquet draws thousands of tourists in search of fresh air and invigorating bathing. How many know that five centuries ago, a fierce naval battle was fought off that beach, between English sailors and French and Breton sailors? And that the reddened waters of the Iroise Sea washed dozens of corpses onto the...
SANDWICH 24 August 1217 – England Escapes French Domination
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In 1217, Prince Louis of France (the future Louis VIII, son of Philip II Augustus and father of Saint Louis) was waging war in England in the hope of seizing the crown. The convoy bringing him vital reinforcements was intercepted at sea, somewhere between Dover, Sandwich and South Foreland, and never reached the English coast. This naval battle is...
BRIGNAIS 6 April 1362 – The Tard-Venus at the Gates of Lyon
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Southwest of Lyon, April 1362. Led by the Constable of France, Jacques de Bourbon, the French army marches on the small town of Brignais, occupied by bands of routiers. These soldiers, idle since the signing of the Treaty of Brétigny two years earlier, roam the roads and spread terror throughout the southern provinces of the kingdom of France. Although...
LOBBES 23 August 1914 – The Battle of Heuleu as Told by Its Witnesses
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On 31 July 1914, at five o'clock in the morning, notary Duquenne, burgomaster of Lobbes, was ordered to post the military mobilisation notice in his commune. Like the entire population of the neighbouring villages of the Haute-Sambre, he would witness requisitions, the deployment of Red Cross units and the return of expatriates from the belligerent...
WISSEMBOURG 4 August 1870 – Alsace Violated
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On the morning of 4 August 1870, the 2nd division of General Abel Douay was positioned on the heights of Wissembourg, a few hundred metres from the enemy frontier. On the other side, several Prussian and Bavarian corps were advancing without having been detected by the French cavalry reconnaissance. An unequal battle was engaged in and around the town, in...
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