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DECIMA MAS - THE LEGENDARY UNIT OF PRINCE BORGHESE
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DECIMA MAS - THE LEGENDARY UNIT OF PRINCE BORGHESE

L20210085
€36.97
This book tells the story of an Italian Navy unit that carried out extraordinary military operations during the Second World War. With limited resources, under the command of Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, a handful of highly trained men deployed fearsome weapons that kept the Allied high command on edge until the final days of the war. Those who would be...
U-BOOTE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - VOLUME 2, June 1943 –...
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U-BOOTE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - VOLUME 2, June 1943 – September 1944 – Facing the Allied...

L20210066
€51.18
The story of the 62 U-Boote that fought in the Mediterranean With the Allies having taken control of the whole of North Africa in May 1943, the mission of the U-Boote in the Mediterranean changed. Henceforth, they were to protect "Fortress Europe" against the forthcoming Allied landings. Five submarines set out against the Allied landing in Sicily in July...
THE "Sample" BATTLESHIPS. Volume 02: Jauréguiberry,...
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THE "Sample" BATTLESHIPS. Volume 02: Jauréguiberry, Bouvet, Masséna and Henri IV

L20210065
€52.13
In the first volume of this work, our study covered the genesis of the French armoured fleet in the period between the war of 1870 and the Fashoda Crisis on the one hand, and on the other the history of the first three battleships of this so-called "sample" fleet: the Brennus, Carnot and Charles Martel. With this second volume, we study the last three...
Torpedoes
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Torpedoes

L20210058
€18.01
In this work, Eugène Hennebert, a retired lieutenant-colonel of the Engineers, traces the history of torpedoes from antiquity — including certain forms of Greek fire — through to his own era, with the first torpedo boats and submarines. With the aid of numerous illustrations, he describes the various models invented, the means of deploying them and the...
All French Aircraft Carriers from 1912 to the Present Day. All French Aircraft Carriers from 1912 to the Present Day. 2
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All French Aircraft Carriers from 1912 to the Present Day.

L20210029
€55.92
Since 1912, aircraft carriers have been in service with the French Navy. The seaplane tenders of the First World War were followed in 1928 by the first aircraft carrier, le Béarn. Obsolete, she was not committed to combat during the Second World War, but the personnel she had trained enabled the reconstitution in 1945 of an embarked aviation arm that...
OTTO KRETSCHMER: ACE OF THE U-BOATS OTTO KRETSCHMER: ACE OF THE U-BOATS 2
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OTTO KRETSCHMER: ACE OF THE U-BOATS

L20210023
€25.59
Embark for the North Atlantic with the ace of the U-Boats, and hunt down Allied convoys! With 47 ships sunk for a total of 274,333 tons and five steamers damaged in barely twenty months, Otto Kretschmer established himself as the "tonnage king" of German submariners, the ace of aces of the U-Bootwaffe — a title he would hold until the end of the war....
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PLAN Z THE GERMAN NAVAL FANTASY
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PLAN Z THE GERMAN NAVAL FANTASY

L20210016
€42.56
Too often reduced to an improbable naval construction programme dictated by Hitler, Plan Z nonetheless has origins predating the Third Reich and would undergo many strategic and technical evolutions before the Nazi dictator took a genuine interest in it. The fact remains that Plan Z would shape the Kriegsmarine throughout the 1930s, giving it the...
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U-BOOT TYP IX — All Versions of the U-Bootwaffe's...
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U-BOOT TYP IX — All Versions of the U-Bootwaffe's Ocean-Going Submarines

L20210015
€23.60
Following a volume devoted to the Typ VII, and another to the last-chance U-Boote (Typ XXI and Typ XXIII), éditions Caraktère invites you to review the different versions of the mighty Typ IX, designed to strike hard and far. The book first presents in detail the technical origins of the Typ IX, then its direct predecessor, the lesser-known Typ IA. The...
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Naval History of the Second World War
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Naval History of the Second World War

L20210008
€27.49
Co-edition Perrin / Ministère des Armées Hundreds of thousands of works have been written on the Second World War, in dozens of languages. Many of them do indeed address the maritime dimensions of the conflict, the role played by the Royal Navy, the Kriegsmarine and the United States Navy, the role of the various naval forces on a given theatre of...
The Kriegsmarine Submarines 1935-1945. Dönitz's "Grey...
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The Kriegsmarine Submarines 1935-1945. Dönitz's "Grey Wolves" - Vol. 2

L20200283
€52.13
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during the Second World War, declared: "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." Across these two volumes on the U-Boote, the author covers the entirety of the German submarines, describing their specifications, commands, victories and losses, whether during the war or...
Kriegsmarine Submarines 1935-1945. Dönitz's "Grey Wolves"...
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Kriegsmarine Submarines 1935-1945. Dönitz's "Grey Wolves" - Vol. 1

L20200282
€52.13
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during the Second World War, declared: "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." In these two volumes on the U-Boote, the author covers all German submarines in detail, describing their specifications, commands, victories and losses, both during the war and after the end...
GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS
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GALLIPOLI - THE FLIGHT OF THE GIANTS

L20200269
€32.23
Gallipoli, the Dardanelles — these names, almost forgotten from our history books, nevertheless mark one of the bloodiest battles in which the French Army took part during the First World War. This military campaign, contested from its very conception by the political world and decried by the general staffs, had been conceived by a single man: Winston...
U-Boote in the Mediterranean - Volume 1, September...
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U-Boote in the Mediterranean - Volume 1, September 1941–May 1943, to the Rescue of the...

L20200255
€51.18
The history of the 62 U-Boote that fought in the Mediterranean During the summer of 1941, the British decimate the convoys crossing the Mediterranean to supply Rommel's Afrikakorps. The Kriegsmarine is called to the rescue! The first U-Boote pass through the Strait of Gibraltar at the end of September 1941. After their combat mission against Royal Navy...
U-Boote – The Germans' Submarine War
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U-Boote - The German Submarine War

L20200238
€23.70
Until the First World War, submarines had played only a very limited role. Poorly armed, slow to dive and to advance, they posed no threat to warships or merchant vessels. But between 1914 and 1918, Germany staked everything on them to bring down Great Britain — whose very existence was threatened. Nazi Germany once again gambled its future on the...
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The Vikings – History & Tales
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The Vikings – History & Tales

L20200233
€23.70
The great episodes of Viking history, from Erik the Red to Harald Fairhair, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, are retraced in documented accounts. From the lively pen of Jean Mabire, here is the fabulous history of the Vikings, kings of the seas, superbly told. Gathered here are the exploits of Erik the Red, Harald Bluetooth, Harald Fairhair and...
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THE HISTORY OF THE MARINE INFANTRY THROUGH THEIR UNIFORMS THE HISTORY OF THE MARINE INFANTRY THROUGH THEIR UNIFORMS 2
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THE HISTORY OF THE MARINE INFANTRY THROUGH THEIR UNIFORMS

L20200147
€18.96
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bazeilles in 1870 — which is also the feast day of the Marine Infantry — the EMSOME (État-major spécialisé pour l'Outre-mer et l'Étranger) publishes with Histoire & Collections this work, which retraces the history of the Marine Infantry, formerly the Colonial Troops, through their uniforms....
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MILITARY SUBMARINES
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MILITARY SUBMARINES

L20200143
€46.45
Discover the submarines that shaped history, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Fifty-two submarines are examined here in detail, including the semi-submersible Turtle of 1775, the French submarine cruiser Surcouf of 1929 fitted with two 203 mm guns, the formidable German U-Boot Type VII that decimated Allied convoys during the Second World...
THE OTHER TERROR AFTER THE LIGHTNING – THE 11th MARINE...
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THE OTHER TERROR AFTER THE LIGHTNING – THE 11th MARINE ARTILLERY REGIMENT

L20200138
€36.97
From the remote reaches of Ouaddaï in Chad to the plains of the Euphrates in Iraq, the Bigors of the 11th have been deployed on every overseas operational theatre for more than 40 years. Heir to the 1st Colonial Artillery Regiment, whose memory it carefully preserves through the battle honours inscribed on its standard, the 11th Marine Artillery Regiment...
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SUBMARINES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – All classes, all...
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SUBMARINES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – All classes, all models, all belligerents

L20200130
€42.56
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...
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History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End...
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History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End of the 19th Century

L20200105
€18.96
While works on the two most recent world wars abound and every aspect has been covered in exhaustive detail, it seemed important to us to republish Alfred Donéaud's work, which — without prejudging the considerable developments of the late 19th and 20th centuries — recounts with simplicity and precision the History of the French Navy from its origins to...
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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THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL NAVY from 1870 to its fall.
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THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL NAVY from 1870 to its fall.

L20200057
€47.30
French works on the Russian Imperial Navy are rare. The same may be said of English and American publications. Yet the Russian Imperial Navy was an exceptional force, torn as it was between three principal theatres: the Baltic, the Pacific and the Black Sea, of which only the first two could be linked (at great difficulty), the Black Sea remaining...
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