SECRET SERVICES & SPECIAL FORCES

BLACK OPS - Secret Military Operations from 1914 to the...
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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'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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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

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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...
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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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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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 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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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

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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...
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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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...
Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services 2
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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.
The Saragossa File - Bormann and Gestapo Müller after 1945…
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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...
ROBERT THOMAS, RESISTANCE FIGHTER AND CARTOGRAPHER OF THE... ROBERT THOMAS, RESISTANCE FIGHTER AND CARTOGRAPHER OF THE... 2
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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 SILENT ATTACK: THE CAPTURE OF THE BELGIAN BRIDGES AT... THE SILENT ATTACK: THE CAPTURE OF THE BELGIAN BRIDGES AT... 2
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The most celebrated and audacious attack of the Second World War: the capture of the Belgian fort of Eben-Emael on 10 May 1940 by German parachute troops. This operation saw for the first time the use of gliders and hollow charges, while simultaneously demonstrating the possibility of dropping paratroopers behind enemy lines, in true commando fashion.
THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 THE MERCENARIES' REVOLT. CONGO 1965-1968 2
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More than fifty years after Joseph-Désiré Mobutu's rise to power in the Congo, it is time to take a clear-eyed look at that era and to try to understand the role of each party — and especially of the mercenaries — in this page of history of which only the scattered ashes of memory will remain. Drawing on their lived experiences and official documents, the...
INTELLIGENCE AND ACTION — From the "Phoney War" to...
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This work is a plea for intelligence and a tribute to those who practise it. The analysis of the past, from the "drôle de guerre" of 1940 onwards, allows us to trace the evolution of this discipline leading to the current Direction du renseignement militaire — through multiple experiences on various theatres: the Gulf, Chad, the Balkans, Cambodia and...
Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and... Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and... 2
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The recruitment of the Légion étrangère, over its 189 years of existence, has never ceased to evolve in response to numerous parameters that fiction does not glimpse or cannot reveal. The image of a charming and crafty adventurer, seeking redemption, wandering through sands and jungles at the whim of wars, is too fine a picture to withstand the filter of...
Les Compagnons de l'ombre. French Special Services Facing... Les Compagnons de l'ombre. French Special Services Facing... 2
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Les Compagnons de l'ombre was born of the shared desire of the DGSE and the Ordre de la Libération, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Appeal of 18 June, to pay tribute to the fifty members of the French special services who gave their lives in the struggle against the Nazi occupier, and whose commitment and sacrifice were honoured with the...
Targeted Killings - A Critique of Armed Liberalism
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How is war waged in the 21st century? Primarily by drones, by eliminating the enemy before he can cause harm. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine or Pakistan, these operations known as "targeted killings " take place out of sight. Initially widely condemned in Europe and across the Atlantic, these practices became normalised from the 2000s onwards in the...
Elite Corps – Missions and Training Secrets – Physical...
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Panic situation, terrorist attack, shooting, hostage-taking, major crisis... Violence knows no borders, insecurity is a reality, lawless zones are spreading, the risk of chaos is ever-present. Are we prepared to face a situation that spirals out of control? Through the testimony and field experience of an operator working at the intersection of elite...
FÉRAL: THIS FORCE THAT EXISTS WITHIN US FÉRAL: THIS FORCE THAT EXISTS WITHIN US 2
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Knowing how to prepare physically and mentally for the trials of an elite unit and the trials of life. By the authors of the bestseller "GIGN - Confession d'un Ops"
GIGN: CONFESSIONS OF AN OPS
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GIGN: CONFESSIONS OF AN OPS

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Philippe B. should never have found himself in the position that was so often his over the past fifteen years: at the head of a GIGN assault column! Raised the hard way, his aptitude for martial arts brought him very early to the edge of ultra-violence and delinquency. Yet, ever since he watched live on television the famous GIGN assault on an Airbus at...
KGB - The True History of the Soviet Secret Services
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Dive into the heart of the most fascinating of secret services: the KGB. Thirty years have passed since the USSR collapsed in December 1991. Since that date, archives have opened in Moscow, personal testimonies have multiplied, and revelations have followed one upon another. In particular concerning the most secretive pillar of the Soviet system: the KGB.
SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 SECRET AGENTS PARACHUTED INTO EUROPE 1940–1955 2
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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...
RED DEATH – The War Memoirs of a Stalin's Sniper
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The war memoirs of Lioudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet female sniper — By Lioudmila Pavlichenko With 309 "kills" to her name, Lioudmila Pavlichenko is the most decorated Soviet female sniper of World War II. From her youth, through her enlistment in the Red Army, to the fascinating details of her missions and the role played by Kremlin propaganda in the...
IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE – The Journey of an Intelligence Officer
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This book is an adventure novel inspired by memories of true stories in some cases, and often lived experiences in others… The locations, countries, identities and course of these missions are not all real, or are often only partly so, in order to distance them in time and space. The author noting that it could not have been otherwise, so as not to risk...
THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception THE CUNNING WINS! – An Anthology of Wartime Deception 2
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What does military deception consist of? Is it indispensable for victory, as Sun Tzu claims, or merely incidental, as Clausewitz suggests? How has it been used throughout the centuries? What is the situation today? With what results? Does one have the right to deceive one's adversary in all circumstances and by all means? Are there rules, a doctrine? Does...
13th DEMI-BRIGADE OF THE FOREIGN LEGION – The Magnificent...
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The 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion. The "13th". A legend. The regiment of all victories — those of Narvik and Free France, from Bir Hakeim to Colmar. Then came Indochina and Algeria. The regiment was twenty years old, twenty years of war. And then Djibouti: a patch of "French" soil on the Horn of Africa, with its train of all-round...
US MARINES – Semper Fi – At the Heart of the Action
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A celebrated elite American combat force, the Marines play a key role in American overseas operations. Subject to a very high level of readiness, the Marine Corps is unique within the American military organisation, as it can deploy air, ground and maritime assets in conflicts anywhere in the world and within very short timeframes. Among the most...
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