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CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND LANDINGS VOLUME 1 CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND LANDINGS VOLUME 1 2
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CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND LANDINGS VOLUME 1

L20210189
€23.65
This volume in the Résistance collection is devoted to parachute drops and agent pick-ups from 1940 to 1944. The author paints a striking fresco of these operations and pays a vigorous tribute to the heroes of the Resistance, drawing on his extensive personal documentation, the friendship of veterans, and close ties with numerous museum curators across...
Hérault at War 39/45 - Voices of Witnesses
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Hérault at War 39/45 - Voices of Witnesses

L20210170
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André, Édith, Jean, Paulette, René, Suzanne, Vincent and so many others… Men and women from the Hérault, swept up by the upheavals of History, recount their experiences. Preserving the memory of the "bearers of memory" — the resisters and deportees of the Second World War — is the purpose of this catalogue. It gathers and analyses around one hundred...
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945
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From the Meuse to the Danube 1944–1945

L20220107
€22.75
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...
Saint-Cyrians in the Resistance
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Saint-Cyriens in the Resistance

L20220029
€26.54
This work compiles the proceedings of the day of historical studies held at the Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence.
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THE BLACK ANGEL OF THE GESTAPO - Normandy 1942-1944
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THE BLACK ANGEL OF THE GESTAPO - Normandy 1942-1944

L20210105
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Who exactly was this black angel of the Gestapo in Normandy? Marie-Clotilde de Combiens, a young woman of 22 in 1943, made a name for herself by becoming the mistress of the head of the Sipo-SD branch in Caen, Harald Heyns alias Bernard. Having found each other on a train between Paris and Cherbourg, Marie-Clotilde and Bernard would complement one...
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Julien Lenoir - Collaborator from Caen
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Julien Lenoir - Collaborator from Caen

L20210104
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Historian Yves Lecouturier presents a new chapter in the story of collaboration in Normandy from 1940 to 1944: a portrait of one of the most significant figures of the collaboration in Caen, a city severely tried by the Battle of Normandy.
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ROBERT THOMAS, RESISTANCE FIGHTER AND CARTOGRAPHER OF THE... ROBERT THOMAS, RESISTANCE FIGHTER AND CARTOGRAPHER OF THE... 2
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ROBERT THOMAS, RESISTANCE FIGHTER AND CARTOGRAPHER OF THE ATLANTIC WALL

L20210082
€28.44
Robert Thomas was the chief cartographer of this network in Normandy! Pascal Hourblin finally reveals the exceptional role played by this shadow warrior in the Liberation of France. The British Secret Intelligence Service tasked him with drawing up and transmitting hundreds of the most accurate possible overlays and plans of the German coastal defences in...
THE GUIDE TO OCCUPIED PARIS
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THE GUIDE TO OCCUPIED PARIS

L20200209
€28.34
Paris... the most beautiful city in the world, a city without eyes, a city of every excess, the brothel of Europe... Such is the image the German occupier has of the French capital on the morning of 14 June 1940, as his troops enter Paris without a fight. The Gross-Paris then encompasses Paris and the Seine département, which corresponds more or less to...
The Companions of the Liberation in Brittany
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The Companions of the Liberation in Brittany

L20200208
€17.06
Portraits of nearly one hundred men named Companions of the Liberation, across the five départements of historic Brittany. It is the most prestigious title of the Ordre de la Libération, created by General De Gaulle during the era of Free France, in exile in London. Completed after the war, it is a definitive list of 1,038 individuals, 5 French communes...
The Story of Hitler, Germania and Co. - Paul Ordner The Story of Hitler, Germania and Co. - Paul Ordner 2
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The Story of Hitler, Germania and Co. - Paul Ordner

L20200201
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Paul Ordner, a celebrated sports and political cartoonist of the mid-20th century, depicts in 26 drawn tableaux the rise, the misdeeds and the fall of the terrible couple Hitler and Germania. Annotated reissue of the collection published in 1945. The sketches are reproduced identically, presented and commented upon by Yves Buffetaut.
SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 2
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SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955

L20200123
€22.75
Only a part of the history of secret agents parachuted into Europe during World War II is known today — that of the clandestine agents of the SOE, the BCRA or the Abwehr. Drawing on destinies that have remained in the shadows until now, Gaston Erlom recounts a few successes and several tragedies of this struggle. But most of the parachute drops into...
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