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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...
The Landing Ships – Naval Battles from June to December 1944 The Landing Ships – Naval Battles from June to December 1944 2
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The Ships of the D-Day Landings – Naval Battles from June to December 1944

L20200227
€23.22
The tourist or museum visitor who discovers the history of the Normandy Landings sometimes encounters, during their visits, the remains of ships or weapons recovered from the seabed. Rarely documented and often left to one side on a lawn or in a corner of an exhibition, these relics — anchors, propellers or guns — remain silent and contribute little to an...
The Wrecks of the Landings The Wrecks of the Landings 2
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Wrecks of the D-Day Landings

L20200226
€9.72 €19.43
History of scrapping in Lower Normandy The military events of the summer of 1944 left a lasting wound on Norman soil. Whether in print or digital form, numerous media explain in detail those long months of total war that came to a temporary end on the banks of the Seine. They leave us with the vague impression that we know the subject, while an entire...
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THE GREAT NAVAL AND CARRIER BATTLES OF THE PACIFIC WAR
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THE GREAT NAVAL AND CARRIER BATTLES OF THE PACIFIC WAR

L20190216
€37.82
OUT OF STOCK From the fighting in the Slot to the great carrier battles, from the Japanese naval air attack on Hawaii on December 7, 1941, to the destruction of the heavy cruiser Haguro by the British 26th Destroyer Flotilla in the Strait of Malacca on May 16, 1945, the Pacific War is a complex sequence of more or less well-known battles that punctuate a...
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FROM THE HITLERJUGEND TO THE FRENCH NAVY FROM THE HITLERJUGEND TO THE FRENCH NAVY 2
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FROM THE HITLERJUGEND TO THE FRENCH NAVY

L20190211
€17.06
Ursula Pacaud-Meindl composes here a mosaic of a turbulent era lived in Germany and in France. She bases her account on two exceptional destinies: that of her father — Eugene Meindl, the celebrated and renowned German general and commander of the II. Fallschirmjäger-Korps — and her own. Numerous letters written between 1940 and 1951 bear witness to this...
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Birth of the Battleship Birth of the Battleship 2
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Birth of the Battleship

COLLLIV097
€28.44
Of all the innovations recorded on the tables of modern history, none are more stirring than the momentous appearance of the steam-powered vessel, laden with cannon, clad in iron, hurled among the light sailing ships "like a lion among a flock of sheep". Such, in brief, is the birth of the battleship in the second half of the nineteenth century. Good...
The Creusot Armor Plates and the Compound Armor Plates
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The Creusot Armour Plates and Compound Armour Plates

COLLLIV093
€71.09
Octavo paperback, 66 pp. Numerous plates and in-text figures. Armour plating is the armoured cladding applied to warships. The many plates depict armour plates variously affected by shellfire. The iconography is very rich. 
THE GREAT WAR AT SEA
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THE GREAT WAR AT SEA

L20190201
€26.54
The First World War marked the apogee of the battleship: these giants of the seas, heavily armoured and armed, manoeuvred in squadrons of a power never previously seen. 
U-BOOTE - From Victories to Defeats Vol. 1 1939–1945 U-BOOTE - From Victories to Defeats Vol. 1 1939–1945 2
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U-BOOTE - From Victories to Defeats Vol. 1 1939–1945

L20190200
€27.49
Out of print — Reprint April–May 2022 The history of the German U-Boote submarines, whose largest base was built at Lorient, and of their crews during the Second World War. Illustrated with more than 500 previously unpublished documents, this monograph draws on the testimonies of the few surviving submariners. 
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FRENCH SAILORS ON D-DAY - FNFL Normandy 1944
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FRENCH SAILORS ON D-DAY - FNFL Normandy 1944

L20190189
€18.48
4 June 1944, 6:30 p.m., southern England. Liaison officers board twenty-two French vessels. Locked in with the commanders, they hand them a large sealed envelope… 
U-564 At the Heart of Korvettenkapitän Teddy Suhren's Final Mission U-564 At the Heart of Korvettenkapitän Teddy Suhren's Final Mission 2
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U-564 At the Heart of the Last Mission of Korvettenkapitän Teddy Suhren

L20190161
€27.96
Based on an extraordinary collection of photographs discovered in the U-Boot submarine base at Brest at the end of the war, and kept hidden until recently in a shoebox, this exceptional book traces the complete history of a U-Boot on patrol during the summer of 1942. 
The Battleships of World War Two Vol 1 The Battleships of World War Two Vol 1 2
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The Battleships of World War Two Vol. 1

C9788395157561
€18.91 €37.82
The idea of creating such an album dedicated to the battleships of World War Two had been born in the last dozen or so years. During this period, various concepts appeared in print, which were meant to present those beautiful ships in the form of a "condensed pill." 
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TORPEDO LOS! Les U-boote dans la Bataille de l'Atlantique Tome 1 : 1939-1941
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TORPEDO LOS! U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic Volume 1: 1939–1941

L20190008
€37.82
From 1939 to 1941, the German submarine arm emerged as one of the most dangerous threats to the Allies, their war effort and their maritime trade. Composed of modern, well-designed vessels crewed by highly trained and motivated men, the U-Bootwaffe waged a relentless tonnage war in the Atlantic.
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The Yamato Class: Yamato, Musashi and Shinano
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THE YAMATO CLASS: Yamato, Musashi and Shinano

L20190005
€47.30
OUT OF PRINT   In the pantheon of warships, the battleships Yamato and Musashi, along with the aircraft carrier Shinano, occupy a place apart.
BISMARCK - The Atlantic Giant BISMARCK - The Atlantic Giant 2
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BISMARCK – The Giant of the Atlantic

L20180204
€47.30
Following two LOS! special issues devoted to the battleship Bismarck that sold out rapidly, Patrick Toussaint presents a definitive study of this flagship of the Kriegsmarine.
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The La Fayette-Class Stealth Frigates The La Fayette-Class Stealth Frigates 2
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The La Fayette-Class Stealth Frigates

L20180144
€23.70
OUT OF PRINT The five La Fayette-class frigates are the first stealth warships. Their appearance in the mid-1990s marked the beginning of a new trend in naval aesthetics. These five vessels, based in Toulon, are well suited to crisis situations and are widely used for surveillance in troubled areas.
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THE TRAGEDY OF U-110 - Spanish Civil War - Capture of the Enigma Machine - Captivity in Canada THE TRAGEDY OF U-110 - Spanish Civil War - Capture of the Enigma Machine - Captivity in Canada 2
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THE TRAGEDY OF U-110 - Spanish Civil War - Capture of the Enigma Machine - Captivity in...

L20180142
€27.96
Kapitänleutnant Fritz Lemp and the tragedy of U-110 through the reportage of submariner Willi Brohm. Drawing on the photo albums of one of the sailors of U-30 and then U-110, the author has reconstructed — through text and images alike — the journey and fate of these submarines, of Kapitänleutnant Fritz Lemp and his crew, including sailor Willi Brohm.
Omaha Beach - Tuesday 6 June 1944 Omaha Beach - Tuesday 6 June 1944 2
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Omaha Beach - Tuesday 6 June 1944

L20180098
€9.48 €18.96
Tuesday 6 June 1944, at dawn, the German sentries on duty along the Sables d'Or beach and on the Pointe du Hoc make out menacing silhouettes offshore
Arromanches - The Ports and Allied Logistics Arromanches - The Ports and Allied Logistics 2
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Arromanches - The Ports and Allied Logistics

L20180090
€18.96
The Normandy Landings and the military operations that followed required the deployment of unprecedented logistical and technological resources.
U-BOOT VII Vol.2
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U-BOOT VII Vol.2

C9788372372192
€21.28 €42.56
Cheap and relatively quick to build, over 700 Type VIIs were produced, making it the most common type of German World War II U-Boat, and the most produced submarine class in history.  Serie EOW 48
THE MARINES IN THE HELL OF THE PACIFIC THE MARINES IN THE HELL OF THE PACIFIC 2
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THE MARINES IN THE HELL OF THE PACIFIC

L20180054
€55.92
Following his works devoted to the Battle of Iwo Jima and the 1st Marine Division, Charles Trang presents an encyclopaedic study of the Marines in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945, in which each of their campaigns is treated in detail with numerous first-hand accounts and photographs, most of them previously unpublished.
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