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HISTORY OF SHIPS IN ANCIENT CHINA
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HISTORY OF SHIPS IN ANCIENT CHINA - From the Origins to the 19th Century

L20200103
€26.54
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...
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US MARINES – Semper Fi – At the Heart of the Action
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US MARINES – Semper Fi – At the Heart of the Action

L20200102
€36.97
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 – History of the Fighting of February and March 1944

L20200101
€19.91
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...
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NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
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THE NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR

L20200090
€23.70
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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ÎLE DE RÉ – July–November 1627 – The Duke of Buckingham Defeated before Saint-Martin-de-Ré

L20200089
€18.96
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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MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6–7 July 1794 – The French Victory at Waterloo

L20200088
€18.96
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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AFGHANISTAN 2011–2012 The Lafayette Brigade V in Kapisa

L20200087
€18.96
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
€23.70
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,...
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SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13 2
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SOLDIERS OF ALGERIA 1954–1962 Guide Militaria 13

L20200085
€18.91
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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GUSTAV MERTSCH - The Artillery of the Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler"

L20200083
€18.48
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.
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