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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. 
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