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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS...
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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"

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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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LINE INFANTRY Volume 1 - 1776–1810

L20200081
€27.96
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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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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INNSBRUCK 1805 – The Soldiers of the 76th Line Regiment Recover Their Colours

L20200078
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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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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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ALL THE ARMORED VEHICLES OF THE FRENCH ARMY - From Origins to 1940

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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...
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LES BLANCS-SABLONS LE CONQUET 25 April 1513 – The Franco-Breton Navy Repels the Royal Navy
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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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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...
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BRIGNAIS 6 April 1362 – The Tard-Venus at the Gates of Lyon
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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...
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LOBBES 23 August 1914 – The Battle of Heuleu as Told by Its Witnesses
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LOBBES 23 August 1914 – The Battle of Heuleu 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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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...
LIGNY 16 June 1815 – The Emperor's Last Victory
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LIGNY 16 June 1815 – The Emperor's Last Victory

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15 June 1815. After the capture of Charleroi, the Emperor has just entrusted command of his left wing to Marshal Ney, with the mission of advancing towards Brussels in order to cut definitively the communications between the Anglo-Dutch Allies and the Prussians. He himself takes command of the right column. To slow the French advance and allow their own...
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QUATRE-BRAS 16 June 1815 – The Second Prelude to Waterloo
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QUATRE-BRAS 16 June 1815 – The Second Prelude to Waterloo

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June 1815. It is nearly three months since the Emperor returned to Paris. Outlawed by the nations, he knows that a new invasion of France is imminent; the only chance of preventing it lies in striking the Prussian and Anglo-Dutch concentrations. To achieve this, they must be prevented from joining forces and defeated separately. On 15 June, the imperial...
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HELIOPOLIS 20 March 1800 – Kléber and the Last Victory of the Army of the Orient
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HELIOPOLIS 20 March 1800 – Kléber and the Last Victory of the Army of the Orient

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When Bonaparte left Egypt, he handed command to Kléber. The latter attempted to negotiate with the British and the Ottomans the return of the Army of the Orient to France, but the massacre of the garrison at El-Arish brought the negotiations to an end. On 20 March 1800, the French soldiers confronted and defeated the Ottoman army of Youssef Pasha amid the...
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HONDSCHOOTE September 1793 – The First Victory of the Gendarmerie
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HONDSCHOOTE September 1793 – The First Victory of the Gendarmerie

L20200092
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September 1793. The Homeland is in grave danger, facing a Europe outraged by the execution of King Louis XVI. After the defeat of Neerwinden in March, the armies of the Republic must recover their morale and find the road to victory in order to confront the Anglo-Austro-Prussian coalition ranged against them. With remarkable energy, Lazare Carnot...
VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Aid of France
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VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Rescue of France

L20200091
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August 1424. After an hour of fierce fighting, twelve thousand combatants lay strewn across the plain a few hundred metres from the small Norman town. The Lombard-Hispanic-Scots-French army, commanded by Archibald Douglas, newly created Duke of Touraine and in the service of Charles VII, had just suffered a terrible reverse at the hands of the English...
THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2 THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2 2
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THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2

L20200070
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On 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan. Taking advantage of the ensuing confusion and of France's weakness, the independence movements did everything to prevent her return to the Union. In Laos, the Lao Issara independence movement and the Viet Minh would oppose the roughly 500 fighters of the Franco-Laotian guerrilla, who...
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FRENCH VOLUNTEERS IN THE GERMAN ARMY - From the LVF to...
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FRENCH VOLUNTEERS IN THE GERMAN ARMY - From the LVF to the Charlemagne

L20200068
€42.65
Between 1941 and the end of the Second World War, several tens of thousands of Frenchmen fought under the banner of the Third Reich, whether as members of the Légion des volontaires français (LVF), the Légion Tricolore, the Sturmbrigade Frankreich, the Charlemagne division, or various other units (NSKK, Organisation Todt, Kriegsmarine...).
CHEVROLET, THE AMERICAN SPIRIT
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CHEVROLET, THE AMERICAN SPIRIT

L20200063
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The Chevrolet brand encompasses numerous car styles (sports, pick-up, coupé, convertible, etc.) that are very popular in the United States as well as around the world. The finest models were produced between 1948 and 1974, and it is on this period that the book focuses — while also covering the more recent Camaro ZL1, which illustrates the brand's evolution.
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Eugene Sledge – A Marine in the Hell of the Pacific
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Eugene Sledge – A Marine in the Hell of the Pacific

L20200061
€36.97
Friday 15 September 1944, after three days of intense bombardment of the Japanese defences, the 1st Marine Division "Old Breed" landed on the island of Peleliu in the Palau Archipelago. The Marines' objective was to neutralise the garrison of this island and seize the Japanese airfield in order to secure the northern flank of General MacArthur's army,...
THE CORRIDOR OF DEATH – Mortain Falaise Argentan 1944
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THE CORRIDOR OF DEATH – Mortain Falaise Argentan 1944

L20200060
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The «corridor of death» is the bottleneck of the famous Falaise-Argentan pocket where the German combat forces in Normandy were crushed by Allied power. The Germans left several thousand dead and 40,000 prisoners in the pocket after approximately half of them managed to break through. This volume recounts that hell. The Battle of Mortain with sensational...
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Jagdgeschwader 54: The Green Heart Eagles of the...
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Jagdgeschwader 54: The Green Heart Eagles of the Luftwaffe - Vol. 02.

L20200059
€46.45
Second volume of the history of the Jagdgeschwader 54. As the fate of the war in the East was being decided in early 1943, the Green Heart wing saw its III. Gruppe withdrawn from the sector to combat Allied raids on the Western Front: from duels over the English Channel to the sacrifice of Bodenplatte and the battles of the Normandy Landings.
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