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Michel de L'Hospital, c. 1506–1573, A Humanist Chancellor of France in the Age of the Wars of Religion
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Michel de L'Hospital, c. 1506–1573, A Humanist Chancellor of France in the Age of the...

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Humanism, tolerance, fanaticism, civil peace and Wars of Religion, Fatherland and Faith: words that still resonate in our societies. These themes already carried force and vigour — often tinged with blood — in the sixteenth century, the age in which Michel de L'Hospital, who had the fleur-de-lis in his heart, a virtuous and wise magistrate, attempted to...
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Enlist – France's Strategic Revival
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Engagez-vous – France's Strategic Relaunch

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France seems to be lagging behind in a rapidly changing world. Its values, interests and convictions appear to carry little weight against the imperatives of a globalised governance dominated by media and markets that leave little room for politics and anaesthetise democracy.To relaunch France — which is the objective proposed by this work — it is...
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Two Years in the Footsteps of Zamaraï Païkan, Afghan General and Hero
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Two Years in the Footsteps of Zamaraï Païkan, Afghan General and Hero

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From Joseph Kessel to military personnel, diplomats and humanitarian workers, many French men and women have left a part of themselves in Afghanistan. These distant lands, at the borders of the imagination — dark and luminous, inhabited by people both so close and so foreign — constitute an ultimately chiaroscuro country: mythical, unclassifiable and...
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Putin's Grand Chessboard
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Putin's Grand Chessboard

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Vladimir Putin leaves no one indifferent. Sometimes demonised by the West, sometimes admired — especially in Russia and Slavic countries — he is here to stay. On the global geopolitical chessboard, the Kremlin's leader is a grandmaster. Putin is a pragmatist. He adapts to circumstances, to the strengths and weaknesses of his adversaries.More than ever,...
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Dawn at the Gates of Hell
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Dawn at the Gates of Hell

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DAWN AT THE GATES OF HELL tells the story of four young volunteers who enlisted in the Naval Infantry at the age of 17 — from their basic training as young soldiers to the death of some and the end of their posting at the Bab el Assa position on the Moroccan border for the others.The Algerian War was drawing to a close in 1960. The efforts of the French...
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GEOCULTURE, a Plea for Sustainable Civilizations GEOCULTURE, a Plea for Sustainable Civilizations 2
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GEOCULTURE: A Plea for Sustainable Civilisations

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Confronted with the shock of crisis, Europe is experiencing today more than a passing weakening. The mechanical application of recipes produced by liberal and technicist ideology has caused it to lose its footing. How can decline be reversed? Where better than within itself can the forces needed to regain balance and influence be found? Is it not in the...
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On the Essential Philosophy of Military Command
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On the Essential Philosophy of Military Command

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In Grandeurs et servitudes militaires, Alfred de Vigny defines soldiers as belonging to a "race of men always scorned or honoured beyond measure depending on whether nations find them useful or necessary". This vision of a writer who was himself a soldier reveals a genuine gap in understanding. The military world — which is, for both historical and...
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945

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June 1940. As the French armies began a general retreat on the orders of General Weygand, Commander-in-Chief, the inhabitants of the border regions with Germany and Belgium evacuated their towns and villages before an enemy advancing rapidly.The exodus was short-lived: France signed the armistice on 25 June. A long period of occupation of national...
MALI, a Peace to Win
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MALI, a Peace to be Won

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The war in Mali is incomprehensible unless the testimony of its direct participants is combined with an in-depth reflection on the long-term instability of the Sahel region. Mali, a Peace to be Won presents for the first time the previously unpublished accounts of officers who held operational commands during the first weeks of the engagement. These...
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THE ARCHERS OF THE SKY – History of Aircraft Fléchettes
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THE ARCHERS OF THE SKY — History of Aircraft Fléchettes

L20220103
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This work pays tribute to the poilus. It recounts the terrible history of the first anti-personnel projectile of military aviation: the aircraft fléchette.These formidable projectiles, whose cruelty was quietly passed over in silence, first appeared in French aviation during the opening days of the Great War. Effective and inexpensive, they were never...
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Maritime Piracy: Africa Boarding
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Maritime Piracy: Africa Under Attack

L20220102
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What is the impact of piracy on the global economy? Should private companies participate in the fight against piracy? How can piracy be effectively combated? These are burning questions, as piracy in 2014 is assuredly the new scourge of the 21st century.
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War and Crisis Notebooks 2011–2013
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War and Crisis Notebooks 2011–2013

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Through chronicles of wars, crises and analyses of burning issues, this work offers the unsparing perspective of a paratrooper officer turned business leader — a man of both action and reflection — on the years 2011–2013, which marked a major inflection point in the international context shaping the security and economic development of France and Europe....
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The End of the Gleiniger Mystery – August 1944: the Liberation of Limoges
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The End of the Gleiniger Mystery — August 1944, the Liberation of Limoges

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On 21 August 1944, the German authorities occupying the Limousin region had a meeting at 8 p.m. with representatives of the Resistance to sign the act of surrender of the city of Limoges, thus allowing the Maquisards of Georges Guingouin, who surrounded the city, to enter without bloodshed. But there was only one German captain to receive them at the...
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The Global Oceanic Shift
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The Global Oceanic Shift

L20220096
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Over the course of just a few years, and in the greatest discretion, a genuine oceanic shift has taken place around the Iranian pivot. Even as the seas represent the space par excellence in which demographically small but technologically advanced civilisations can assert themselves, Europe, the United States and Japan have allowed their influence over the...
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From Anti-Aircraft Defence to Surface-to-Air Defence
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From Anti-Aircraft Defence to Ground-to-Air Defence

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The Musée de l'Artillerie traces through its collections the history of artillery from its beginnings to the present day, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The museum is a place for the conservation, restoration, and showcasing of French military heritage. It is also a centre of study. On 28 May 2010, around ten military...
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Guide to National and Ministerial Orders
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Guide to National and Ministerial Orders

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This guide is intended as the indispensable working document for all those within our central and decentralised administrations who are responsible for drawing up nomination files for our honorary distinctions on behalf of French or foreign citizens put forward for possible appointment to one of our French national or ministerial orders. The document...
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Elevated to DIGNITY — Memoirs 1923–1954
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ELEVATED TO DIGNITY - Memoirs 1923–1954

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"Elevated to Dignity…" is the story of a young man who comes of age in the mid-1940s.His path is far from ordinary. Of very modest origins, Lucien Le Boudec had considered becoming a priest, a schoolteacher, a meteorologist, or even a civil engineer… The war decided otherwise.To escape the STO, he joins the FFI and finds himself launched into a military...
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The Second World War: The Tragedy of a Century
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World War II, the Tragedy of a Century

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The Second World War was the most gigantic military conflict of all time, both in terms of the harshness of the fighting endured by the soldiers involved, and the malicious consequences for civilian populations and the devastating effects on homes and the organisation of territories. It shook states to their foundations and shaped the world as we know it...
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DE LATTRE – The German Campaign 1945
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DE LATTRE The German Campaign 1945

L20220090
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February 1945: General de Lattre de Tassigny and his First French Army stand before the Rhine. He is the first since Turenne and Napoleon to be in a position to cross it by force. The Americans are not in favour. No matter — supported and encouraged by General de Gaulle, he crosses the Rhine in strength on 31 March 1945 at Gemmersheim. He is about to...
Cannons and Men, History of Artillery Cannons and Men, History of Artillery 2
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Cannons and Men: A History of Artillery

L20220088
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Since the fourteenth century, artillery has been at the heart of every battle that has shaped the history of France. To write an exhaustive history of it is a daunting challenge to which several volumes would barely do justice. Such a work would need to address, in detail, the evolution of equipment and weapons systems, of organisations, of employment —...
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Journey to the Land of Human Networks
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Journey into the World of Human Networks

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The phenomenon of human networks — networks of influence, school networks, political networks, terrorist networks — seems more than ever to dominate the public stage. But what really lies behind these "networks" that appear in every newspaper article and on everyone's lips? After three years of patient investigative work, the author presents this study...
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Facing Darfur
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Facing Darfur

L20220083
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This book is neither a military report nor a political treatise. It brings to life the men who, on the ground, in the bush, face complex and often dangerous situations.
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The Marsouin's Handbook
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Mémento du Marsouin

L20220081
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A highly practical manual for military personnel, bringing together all essential knowledge.
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Taking Responsibility at 20! Bearing Witness Today…
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Bearing Responsibility at 20! Bearing Witness Today...

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The author has assembled, through a vivid, alert and precise narrative, the chronological account of his conscription — 26 months in total, 15 of them in Algeria. The sections and chapters are clearly identified; those concerning Petite Kabylie form the backbone and principal theme of the work. The other sections highlight the author's determination to...
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The Gendarmerie in the Algerian War
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The Gendarmerie in the Algerian War

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What was the real impact of the Algerian War on the French armed forces? Military operations, the means deployed, the evolving role of the army, failures, victories and internal divisions: all these subjects have already inspired countless memoirs and testimonies, and have been the principal or secondary focus of many studies. But within the broader...
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JIHAD: The Asymmetry Between Fanaticism and Incomprehension
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JIHAD, the Asymmetry Between Fanaticism and Incomprehension

L20220073
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Asymmetry remains a poorly understood concept in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Generally defined as a difference in the means employed, its essence is more subtle and defies Western principles of warfare. Unlike symmetric conflicts, asymmetry operates within a "non-zero-sum game" logic, where the tactical success of one party feeds the strategic...
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Globalisation and Defence
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Globalization and Defence

L20220071
€28.44
Valérie Pécresse, in her preface, recalls that in these times of severe turbulence we need more than ever to remain alert to the world and to know how to read it in order to act within it. The IHEDN, an institute answerable to the Prime Minister, has as one of its vocations the stimulation of reflection and debate on the crucial question of our country's...
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Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence 2
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Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence

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€36.97
Terrorism is neither an inevitability nor a doctrine. It is a method. A method placed in the service of the most diverse strategies and objectives. Even if attacks resemble one another, they most often respond to different ends. The fight against terrorism — or rather, terrorisms — requires a strategy adapted to each adversary, to its structures, its...
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Surface-to-Air Missile – History of the HAWK, medium-range missile in the French Army
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Surface-to-Air Missile – History of the HAWK, Medium-Range Missile in the French Army

L20220069
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Surface-to-air missile "History of the HAWK, medium-range missile in the French Army" Adopted by France in 1958, the HAWK (Homing All the Way Killer) medium-range anti-aircraft missile system was designed and developed by the Americans in the years 1953–1955. Built under licence in Europe, and at the cutting edge of technology at the time, it equipped...
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