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TANKS AND ARMOURED VEHICLES OF WORLD WAR II 2nd Edition
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Tanks and armoured vehicles, the essential pillars of military arsenals. Exhausted by the Great War, the victorious powers were slow to embark on the development of new tactics suited to armoured warfare. Only the arrival of the German Panzerdivisionen forced strategies and national production programmes to accelerate. After the opening campaigns of the...
THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF HISTORY 2nd edition - 2,500...
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The names of Actium, Lepanto, Trafalgar and Jutland resonate as so many confrontations that have entered History with a capital H. The warship became a weapon in its own right, ceaselessly evolving and transforming. Yet, however devastating these countless battles may have been, they also contributed to the greatness of humanity. For if conflicts...
THE PROVENCE LANDINGS - The Second World War in Colour
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The Provence landings of 15 August 1944 were the best-organised and most successful amphibious operation of the entire war, from Operation Torch on the African coast to Overlord on the shores of Normandy. It must also be recalled that both operations — Overlord in Normandy and Dragoon in Provence — had been conceived by the Americans as two phases of a...
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE - The Second World War in Colour
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The battle that took place in the Ardennes massif between 16 December 1944 and the end of January 1945 is most often referred to as the Battle of the Ardennes. In the United States, this battle — the largest in which American soldiers participated on the Western Front — is known as The Battle of the Bulge. The Americans likened it to a "bulge" of some 80...
THE EASTERN FRONT From Operation Barbarossa to the Fall...
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The war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from 22 June 1941 to 8 May 1945 is one of superlatives in every respect. First, it unfolded on the largest land theatre of operations of the Second World War and probably in the history of humanity. This mobile front, where German and Soviet offensives alternated, moved back and forth across the western...
War Stories – Men, Objects and Memory of the Great War...
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The Great War told through the prism of objects: helmets, uniforms, notebooks, identification tags and many other silent witnesses of the conflict. A passionate collector since childhood, Benoît Chalhoub takes us on a journey to the heart of his collection, where each piece becomes the starting point for a story of human courage, suffering or hope. Far...
THE KRIEGSMARINE 1935–1945 - HISTORY - UNIFORMS -...
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2025 REPRINT A magnificent colour album presenting all uniform pieces, rank insignia and badges of the Kriegsmarine, including those of U-Boot crews. This work traces the history, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the German war navy between 1935 and 1945. A formidable weapon which, despite its limited resources, would ultimately prove the only...
German Belt Buckles 1933-1945 Vol. 1 - Heer - Luftwaffe -... German Belt Buckles 1933-1945 Vol. 1 - Heer - Luftwaffe -... 2
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You have been waiting many years for it — at last, a publication in French on German belt buckles from 1933 to 1945. Authentic buckles will hold no more secrets for you; everything is broken down and explained in plain terms. This first volume presents the models of the Heer, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, the Polizei, the Postschutz and the RAD. The...
THE PARAS AT DIEN BIEN PHU - 20 November 1953 - 12 March... THE PARAS AT DIEN BIEN PHU - 20 November 1953 - 12 March... 2
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This book retraces with unprecedented historical rigour, day by day, the combat of the paratroopers at Diên Biên Phu, weaving together testimonies, period documents and terrain study to bring to life the hell of the battle and the heroism of the combatants. There are names that carry a particular resonance in our History. Diên Biên Phu rings in the...
The Tragic History of the 16. Pz.-Div. During the Battle...
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Following the first volume of La Tragique Histoire de la 16. Pz.-Div. durant la Bataille de Stalingrad Décembre 1942 - Tome 1 engaged north of Stalingrad from September to December 1942, this dying division continues fighting against the 66th Red Army until 2 February 1943, under the command of Generalleutnant Angern. Relentless, he refuses to surrender...
Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793 Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793 2
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Wattignies - 15-16 October 1793

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In the late summer of 1793, the French Republic stood on the brink of collapse. Engaged in a war against a powerful coalition of European states, it had suffered defeat after defeat since the spring, and on all its borders its territory was being invaded. On 8 September 1793, by seizing victory at Hondschoote in Flanders over their Anglo-Hanoverian...
1944, AMERICAN ARMOUR - From Normandy to Mons 1944, AMERICAN ARMOUR - From Normandy to Mons 2
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The decisive success of Operation "Cobra" left in the collective imagination an indelible impression of overwhelming power. Images of a wave of tanks still associated today with an all-powerful US Army. And yet! Four years earlier, in July 1940, the US Army did not possess a single tank worthy of the name, nor a single armoured division! The purpose of...
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