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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...
€28.44
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
L20240143
€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...
€21.71
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...
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RWANDA (6 April 1994 – 19 July 1994): The War, the Genocide and France's Responsibility
L20230110
€30.24
What happened in Rwanda between 6 April and 19 July 1994? What share of responsibility does each of the national and international actors bear for the genocide of the Tutsi?
From the very opening of the book, in order to dispel any ambiguity, a table of a scale of crimes on page 21 rules out any reasoning that would equate the genocide of the Tutsi...
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THE CAT ON THE DUNE - Field Journal and Operations of a French Officer in the Sahel...
L20230001
€11.85
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Preface by Michel GOYA
The author donates his royalties to Terre-Fraternité, an association supporting the wounded and bereaved families of the French Army.
The fruit of ten years' experience in operations conducted by France in the Sahelo-Saharan strip, this work recounts the experience of a senior officer engaged in operations. Far from being merely a...
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6 June 1987: a young sailor, freshly qualified as a missile and gunnery specialist, boards the aircraft carrier Clémenceau on a port call at Brest.
10 June 2021: still a sailor at heart, the author finds himself aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle as a photographer and embarks for a few days in the Mediterranean.
Tirelessly faithful to his...
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2000 Years of French Fortification - From the 4th Century BC to the Atlantic Wall
L20220177
€59.72
2000 YEARS OF FRENCH FORTIFICATION
From the 4th century BC to the Atlantic Wall
Oppida, castles, fortified churches, and urban ramparts dot the French landscape, while forts and Maginot works near the borders evoke former barriers.
Why this omnipresent fortification? Historians, architects, and urban planners seek, for various reasons, an answer.
They...
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At the heart of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, placed at the centre of attention — from the royal Benedictine abbey to the École du Val-de-Grâce — the library and its collections have always been a source of pride for their users. In a setting of stone and greenery, they offer conditions conducive to study, research and reflection. Open to all, they are...
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Callsign Clochette - Medical Officer of the BEP and REP - 70 Years in the Service of...
L20220175
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No one leaves the REP without having left a part of themselves behind. For 70 years, having served in one of the Foreign Parachutist Battalions and Regiments has remained a unique human and professional experience for all the officers, non-commissioned officers, and legionnaires who one day stepped through the door of an aircraft alongside the men of the...
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At Saint-Cyr l'Ecole, after two and a half centuries of history — from Louis XIV to the Second World War — nothing remained of the École de Saint-Cyr. Two and a half centuries of teaching, instruction and human development. This institution, whose founder hoped would endure as long as France, and France as long as the world, was razed by Allied bombing in...
€32.23
The Regiment of Marine Tank Infantry is one hundred years old. Since its creation, it has been present on every operational theatre where France has been engaged. If it is today a unit of great prestige by virtue of its history, it owes that above all to its marsouins. They came from near and far and gave their blood to defend their country. This book...
€43.60
The Engineers can lay claim to an existence of more than three centuries; the high level of technical, even scientific, knowledge that their action demands has always set them apart. This album traces the entire history of this arm up to the present day.
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A superb album tracing the history of the cavalry from its origins to the present day, richly illustrated, hardbound in a dust jacket.
€39.81
The youngest of the airborne formations, the 1st Parachute Train Regiment was created from the merger of the Air Delivery Regiment of Metz and the Airborne Mobile Operational Base of Toulouse. In this new configuration, it upholds the traditions of air delivery, those of the air supply companies and the airborne bases of Indochina, which bore the heavy...
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Born of the 1900 law on the reorganisation of the Colonial Troops, the 21st RIMa is today a sprightly centenarian based in Fréjus on the shores of the Mediterranean. Its rich and long history makes it one of the most prestigious regiments of the arm. Carrying on the traditions of the 2nd Colonial Infantry Regiment of the garrison, the 21st RIC was created...