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The GIGN by Those Who Commanded It
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The GIGN by Those Who Commanded It

L20240010
€19.91
Who has never dreamed of stepping inside an elite intervention unit like the GIGN? Of following in the footsteps of a guide for whom no mechanism of this precision machine holds any secrets? What if it were not one, but several guides who revealed the inner workings of a group that has become legendary since its creation in 1974? That dream is fulfilled...
UNITED WE CONQUER – Commandos Marine, ils racontent leur...
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UNITED WE CONQUER – Commandos Marine, ils racontent leur histoire

L20230141
€30.33
The history of the Commandos Marine told by those who lived it, magnificently photographed by one of their own. Preface by Rear Admiral Pierre de Briançon, Commander of the Naval Fusiliers and Commandos Maritime Force. Léon Gautier passed away in June 2023, aged 100. He was the last representative of the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos,...
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BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY 2
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BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY

L20230135
€37.87
The remarkable story of Bob Denard, the mercenary of the Fifth Republic — one of the greatest military figures of the 20th century. This larger-than-life condottiere showed from a very young age a marked taste for adventure and combat. At 16, he enlisted in the Royale, which he left six years later at the end of the Indochina War. This was only the...
IN THE SHADOW OF BOB DENARD - French Mercenaries from...
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IN THE SHADOW OF BOB DENARD - French Mercenaries from 1960 to 1989

L20230131
€9.38
The early 1960s: in the midst of the decolonisation of the Belgian Congo, the secession of Katanga triggered the first concentration of foreign fighters, who flooded in by the hundreds. Among these "dogs of war", the French were the most active. They embarked on a kind of golden age — a succession of raids and coups d'état stretching across the entire...
THE YOUNG LION THE YOUNG LION 2
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THE YOUNG LION

L20230130
€13.74
In the heroes' cemetery on the outskirts of Sopron, Hungary, there stands a special monument. A gravestone adorned with a twisted propeller from an aircraft shot down during the Second World War. A young man rests here alongside his family. His name is László Molnár; he was, until his death, Hungary's most effective fighter pilot. His nickname was LION....
SABOTEUSES - Volume 2 - The Mole SABOTEUSES - Volume 2 - The Mole 2
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SABOTEUSES - Volume 2 - The Mole

L20230129
€13.74
Normandy, 1942… The saboteuses have taken up their posts on French soil. For Paulette Kincaid, code name Aiguille, life is nothing but an adventure — between a romance with a butcher's boy and transmissions keeping the Allies informed about the situation in France. But doubt has set in since the execution of a network leader… There is said to be a mole in...
COLONEL PASSY - General de Gaulle's Master Spy
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COLONEL PASSY - General de Gaulle's Master Spy

L20230124
€25.50
The story of Colonel Passy (1911–1998) is above all the story of an extraordinary destiny. The 29-year-old captain who rallied to Free France as early as 1940 was among the handful of volunteers without whom General de Gaulle could not have hoped to succeed in his audacious gamble: to secure France a seat at the victors' table in 1945. With no prior...
CAN'T HURT ME
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CAN'T HURT ME

L20230123
€19.91
MASTER YOUR MIND AND DEFY YOUR FATE For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare — poverty, racial prejudice, and family violence punctuated his days and haunted his nights. A depressed, overweight young man with no future in sight, unable to run more than 500 metres, he would nonetheless choose to take his destiny into his own hands. Through an...
SAS, les Indomptables, 1941-1945
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SAS, les Indomptables, 1941-1945

L20230095
€23.60
The Special Air Service is today one of the most prestigious special forces in the world. But did you know that its history began in Egypt in 1941? David Stirling, Jock Lewes and Paddy Mayne, three young and impetuous British officers, put together a small unit to carry out daring raids behind Axis lines. Small groups of highly trained and highly mobile...
THE ABWEHR - 1939-1945: German Secret Services in France
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THE ABWEHR - 1939-1945: German Secret Services in France

L20230047
€22.75
The first comprehensive synthesis of the role played by German military intelligence in France under the Occupation. While many organisations of the Third Reich are well known — the all-powerful state militia (SS), the Nazi party's secret police (Gestapo), or its security arm (SD) — the Abwehr is less celebrated. Yet it played a crucial role during the...
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AS THE SHADOW ADVANCES – High-Risk Mission in Syria
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AS THE SHADOW ADVANCES – High-Risk Mission in Syria

L20220439
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In March 2011, amid the wave of the Arab Spring, children from a village in southern Syria wrote graffiti on the wall of their school. Their arrest by the Syrian government's security services and the abuse they suffered would become the trigger of the Syrian revolution, initially peaceful. From the summer of 2011, this revolution took on the character of...
The DST on the Cold War Front
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The DST on the Cold War Front

L20220438
€19.91
In 1944, amid the still-smouldering ruins of a Europe devastated by a conflict that claimed more than 50 million lives, another war began — silent, insidious. A war of shadows and dirty tricks. A war in which these two great blocs — East and West — would confront each other: the USSR and its satellites on one side, the United States and its allies on the...
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TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action Speaks
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TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action Speaks

L20220437
€19.91
"I was a hostage. I lived through dark hours, locked in the cells of an Islamist Katiba. I had made myself a promise: if I survive, I will bear witness to what I lived through. That prospect helped me not to sink into despair or madness. I am a soldier, a man of the field, a former member of the Service Action of the DGSE. All my life I chose danger,...
CHEF DE GUERRE – At the Heart of Special Operations with...
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CHEF DE GUERRE – At the Heart of Special Operations with a Marine Commando

L20220436
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This expanded edition includes a preface written by Alain Juillet, a 32-page photo section and an additional chapter entitled " Psy-ops operation on the high seas ". Louis Saillans joined the marine commandos in 2010 and became a team leader five years later. Over nearly a decade, he took part in military operations in Africa and the Middle East aimed at...
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WORLD WAR II SNIPERS - The Men, Their Guns, Their Stories
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WORLD WAR II SNIPERS - The Men, Their Guns, Their Stories

L20220414
€47.39
A comprehensive illustrated history of snipers, their training and their battlefield role in all theaters in World War II. Thousands of volumes have been published about World War II but relatively little attention has been given to the sniper. Drawing from memoirs, government documents and interviews, World War II Snipers incorporates eyewitness accounts...
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Secret Intelligence Atlas - 100 Maps and Infographics to... Secret Intelligence Atlas - 100 Maps and Infographics to... 2
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Secret Intelligence Atlas - 100 Maps and Infographics to Discover the Hidden Face of...

L20220407
€31.23
The perfect spy's vade mecum Never in human history have spies been as numerous as they are today; never have intelligence services invested and recruited so heavily. Whether one is concerned with security or worried about the protection of privacy, it is no longer possible today to ignore this reality: intelligence is everywhere, from the basic informant...
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LA TASK FORCE SABRE - French Special Forces in the Sahel
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LA TASK FORCE SABRE - French Special Forces in the Sahel

L20220405
€23.70
Since its deployment in the Sahel in 2009, Task Force Sabre, the French special forces unit, had been the subject of no book whatsoever. This work explains in detail how the hunt for Al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorists is conducted across this region of Africa the size of Europe. Weapons, tactics and units are described in full to illuminate the effectiveness...
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STICK ACTION SPÉCIALE - An operator from the 1er RPIMa...
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STICK ACTION SPÉCIALE - An operator from the 1er RPIMa tells his story

L20220403
€19.91
Finding his preparatory maths studies deadly dull, Alexandre Alex dreams of joining the army and becoming a "commando", though he has no real idea what that might actually mean. When a recruiter tries to sell him the role of "computer commando" in order to steer him toward signals rather than inform him about special forces, Alexandre comes close to being...
SPECIAL MISSIONS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR SPECIAL MISSIONS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 2
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SPECIAL MISSIONS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

L20220389
€18.96
Special missions during the First World War: French secret agents dropped by aircraft behind German lines. Behind the designation "special" lay missions organised by the intelligence services and the French Aeronautical Service during the Great War. While their primary purpose was to gather intelligence on the enemy (and sometimes to sabotage railway...
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SECRET MISSIONS ON THE CHANNEL COAST - 1941-1944
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SECRET MISSIONS ON THE CHANNEL COAST - 1941-1944

L20220388
€18.01
The intelligence network created by François Claude in 1941 was dedicated to military intelligence destined for London. In this case, the objective was clear: the intelligence collected was intended to counter, or even destroy, the offensive and defensive capabilities directed from the Channel coastline against the United Kingdom. While the François...
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THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 2: WEAPONS,... THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 2: WEAPONS,... 2
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THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 2: WEAPONS, VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT

L20220375
€28.44
For some twenty years, the Army Special Forces have been engaged in counter-terrorism operations. They have taken part in numerous training and intelligence missions and in bold interventions that have neutralised several dozen armed terrorist groups and rescued many hostages in Afghanistan, the Sahel and the Levant. Today, the Army Special Forces command...
THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 1: AT THE HEART... THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 1: AT THE HEART... 2
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THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 1: AT THE HEART OF THE COUNTER-TERRORISM FIGHT

L20220374
€33.18
For more than twenty years, the Army Special Forces have been engaged in the fight against terrorism alongside their naval and air force counterparts across various operational theatres. During this period they have taken part in numerous training missions, intelligence-gathering operations, and bold interventions that have made it possible to rescue...
SABOTEUSES - Volume 1 - Needle SABOTEUSES - Volume 1 - Needle 2
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SABOTEUSES - Volume 1 - Needle

L20220363
€13.74
London, 1942… Paulette Kincaid, also known as Needle, is the daughter of a shady English businessman killed in a bombing raid and a French woman who returned to France when Paulette was only ten years old. Needle is thoroughly bored and works in a clothing shop in London. In order to help a pregnant woman about to give birth, she steals an army jeep....
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Napoleon and Intelligence
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Napoleon and Intelligence

L20220340
€23.70
Napoleon's secret wars. This original book renews our understanding of intelligence during the Napoleonic era by placing it within its European and transnational dimension rather than a strictly national one. Many espionage and terrorism affairs traditionally studied separately, each yielding their own particular explanations, are thus presented in a new...
BLACK OPS - Secret Military Operations from 1914 to the...
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BLACK OPS - Secret Military Operations from 1914 to the Present Day

L20220304
€18.91
Through the extraordinary destinies of spies, soldiers, mercenaries and assassins, Black Ops tells the story of the underground wars of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since the First World War, secret operations have tipped the balance of conflicts, prevented new ones from breaking out, and overturned political equilibria. The story of these men and women...
L'ECLAIREUR - "You don't choose to join the KGB, the KGB...
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L'ECLAIREUR - "You don't choose to join the KGB, the KGB chooses you."

L20220301
€21.80
L'Éclaireur — From recruitment to training, the true and astonishing story of the only KGB spy to have infiltrated the ENA in order to penetrate the French administration "You don't choose to join the KGB, the KGB chooses you." When he entered the Institute of State International Relations (MGIMO) in Moscow at the age of seventeen, Sergei Jirnov was far...
THE ACTION SERVICE IN GERMANY 1945 - Mission Croc and... THE ACTION SERVICE IN GERMANY 1945 - Mission Croc and... 2
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THE ACTION SERVICE IN GERMANY 1945 - Mission Croc and Commando A220

L20220192
€20.85
In this work, the author takes us through an astonishing infiltration mission carried out by several teams of particularly daring French agents. The operation involved penetrating, in April 1945, under American bombing, a large German city plunged into chaos, in order to eliminate Nazi officials who were sustaining the spirit of resistance there. It was...
Objective: Special Forces
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Objective: Special Forces

L20220004
€16.78
Joining the special forces is the objective you will achieve if you follow Matt's programme with determination. After twenty years wearing the prestigious green beret, Matt wanted to write this guide for younger people who wish to follow in his footsteps. He sought to share his experience: to provide the keys to making that dream a reality. And to build a...
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CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND PICK-UPS 1943-1944 VOLUME 2 CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND PICK-UPS 1943-1944 VOLUME 2 2
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CLANDESTINE PARACHUTE DROPS AND PICK-UPS 1943-1944 VOLUME 2

L20210190
€23.65
This volume, devoted to clandestine aerial operations in occupied France, reveals their incredible intensification during the second half of the Second World War. The entry of the United States into the war and the contribution of their enormous industrial potential, coupled with operations carried out from North Africa, considerably changed the picture....
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...
SECRET WARS: INTELLIGENCE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FROM THE...
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SECRET WARS: INTELLIGENCE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FROM THE GREAT WAR TO AFGHANISTAN

L20210184
€32.23
Secret wars have always been an inescapable reality of armed conflict and constitute one of the most subtle and refined forms of military art. Away from public scrutiny, far from the media and observers, a silent, invisible yet very real war is being permanently waged. The men who wage it serve within highly specialised units, versed in so-called...
Callsign Clochette — Medical Officer of the BEP and REP — 70 Years in Service of the Legionnaires Callsign Clochette — Medical Officer of the BEP and REP — 70 Years in Service of the Legionnaires 2
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Callsign Clochette - Medical Officer of the BEP and REP - 70 Years in the Service of...

L20220175
€36.02
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...
Monsieur Légionnaire Monsieur Légionnaire 2
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Monsieur Légionnaire

L20220152
€53.08
Much has been written about the Legion. Rarely about the legionnaire himself — that anonymous foreigner who made its greatness and its glory. By seeking out who he once was and who he is today. By following him, sometimes through his own accounts, in the bordjs, the bivouacs and the outposts where he lived, from Formosa to Morocco and from the snows of...
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Jeannou Lacaze and the 2nd REP – 1955–1970 – Calvi mon ami Jeannou Lacaze and the 2nd REP – 1955–1970 – Calvi mon ami 2
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Jeannou Lacaze and the 2e REP - 1955-1970 - Calvi mon ami

L20220139
€26.54
Against the backdrop of Algeria, Calvi and Chad, this book tells the story of an officer and the regiment he commanded from July 1967 to July 1970. That officer, General Jeannou Lacaze, and that regiment, the 2e REP, left a lasting mark on the history of the French Army in the second half of the 20th century. It is also the history of armed conflicts and...
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Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services 2
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Encyclopaedia of Intelligence and Secret Services

L20220020
€30.33
A comprehensive presentation of the new global intelligence community in the post-Cold War era. Numerous organisational charts, diagrams and sketches, extensive bibliography, and internet site addresses.
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The Saragossa File - Bormann and Gestapo Müller after 1945…
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The Saragossa File - Bormann and Gestapo Müller after 1945…

L20220013
€25.59
Who protected Gestapo-Müller, the head of the Nazi secret police from 1933 to 1945, when he appeared at the top of the war criminals list at Nuremberg? For he did not die in the ruins of Berlin during the fall of the Greater Reich… Did you know that a general of the NKVD, who served as Minister of Security of the USSR under Stalin, was "handling" the...
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