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Chronicles of an Ordinary Intelligence Services Hero
y name is Alex. My father is Jewish and my mother is English. An explosive combination during the Second World War. I was fourteen years old when we escaped the Nazis via the Pyrenees, taking refuge first in Spain, then in Portugal.
It was in Sainte-Engrâce, an isolated village in...
€18.01
You will follow the account of a fictional military operation, yet one firmly grounded in reality: every system, every operational concept, every space asset described truly exists.
Alongside a special forces commando unit, at the heart of embassies and up to ministerial level, you will discover how space capabilities support the conduct of operations,...
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Camille Mathieu entered the army by entering the war. At the age of 20. He had intended to go into teaching, but from the very first engagements of 1914–1918, amid the thunder of shells and bombs, his military vocation imposed itself upon him.
He took part in, among other engagements, the Second Battle of Champagne on 25 September 1915. Wounded twice....
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Being born in the middle of the century of the two world wars offered the opportunity for exceptional encounters: with the ghosts of the First, with the legends of the Second in the shadow of General de Gaulle.
Having become a naval officer without always quite understanding why, flights and voyages at sea followed one another amid minefields and missile...
€22.75
Common to both civilian and military worlds, intervention is emerging as an operational domain in its own right, both on home soil and in external operations. Cutting across various geographical and professional environments and subject to different legal frameworks, it paradoxically remains poorly identified and little studied. Defining intervention as a...
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In June 1940 in Bordeaux, a young engineer came, through exceptional circumstances, to hold the position of chief engineer of the Rural Engineering Service. The position of this major port made the Rural Engineering Service — which physically administered the region — vital to the occupier. The author's father would be obliged to collaborate officially...
€27.49
Preface by Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Drawing on first-hand experience in theatres of operations where he operated on a thousand war wounded, Jean MAYER then conducts a broad, didactic geopolitical analysis, offering several keys to understanding the War and Peace diptych. As Jean-Pierre Raffarin writes in his preface, "The originality of his work lies in...
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Preface by General Patrick Manificat
This new book on General Jeannou Lacaze — Legion officer, officer of the 11e Choc at the SDECE, commanding officer of the 2e REP from 1967 to 1970, director of intelligence at the SDECE from 1971 to 1976, commander of the 11th Parachute Division from 1977 to 1978, Chief of the Defence Staff from 1981 to 1985, adviser...
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The Captain Made His Escape - account of a sensational escape in the Belle Époque
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€24.64
A member of the French secret services, Captain Charles Lux was arrested on 3 December 1910 in Friedrichshafen, while preparing to infiltrate a zeppelin hangar housing the famous German airships...
Tried for espionage before the High Court of Justice in Leipzig, he was convicted — despite the absence of evidence of his intentions — and sentenced to serve...
€65.31
In the French Navy, the daily life of crews is shaped by striking contrasts unknown in any other profession: modernity and tradition, obedience and command, storms and flat calms, night and day, communal life and solitary existence, vast expanses of ocean and the confinement of a closed world — all of these run through every mission and every life at sea....
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The campaign of 1794 is first and foremost that of Year II (21 September 1793 – 20 September 1794). Unprecedented in its scale of men, challenges and materiel, it mobilises the efforts of the young Republic. It is also a period in which grand operational plans mature; the "système général" will be their synthesis and the matrix for the major campaigns to...
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Unlikely defeat of Russia - Impossible victory of Ukraine
This essay is a condensed work of history, geography and prospective geopolitics.
Drawing on the history and geography of Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the Eurasian continent, the author's aim is to think about peace by proposing a new security system in Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals. To...