SECRET SERVICES & SPECIAL FORCES

SAP-R2 1943-1944, Parachute Drops and Landings in...
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During the Second World War, arming the Resistance was a vital issue for Free France — an eminently complex and lengthy task to implement. Succeeding the first parachute drop networks set up by Jean Moulin in the south of France, the SAP-R2 emerged in late 1943 as the only organisation capable of rivalling the British SOE-F and the American OSS. From that...
THE MAN FROM TRIPOLI - The Untold Account of a DGSE...
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Tripoli (Libya), mid-February 2011. From the first signs of unrest in the country, the French authorities, against all expectations, decide to evacuate their nationals and close the diplomatic mission. Within it, the DGSE's external intelligence station ceases its activities and begins destroying its equipment and archives before the keys to the embassy...
1943 – 1944 PLAN SUSSEX PLAN PROUST – B.C.R.A., OSS &... 1943 – 1944 PLAN SUSSEX PLAN PROUST – B.C.R.A., OSS &... 2
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The Sussex plan was an ultra-secret, tripartite Franco-American-British mission decided upon by General Eisenhower's headquarters in preparation for the Normandy landings and for the subsequent battles of liberation of France. Under the direction of the British secret service SIS, the American OSS, and the French BCRA, 120 French male and female officers...
SECRET SERVICES IN INDOCHINA
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SECRET SERVICES IN INDOCHINA

L20240022
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The opium affair, the piastre traffic, the disasters of Diên Biên Phu and the RC4, the "Roi Jean": in all these episodes, the French intelligence services played a major role. When the French Expeditionary Corps lands on the Saigon docks, the high command has no idea it is embarking on an eight-year conflict. The war the French will wage in the cities,...
SOLDIER OF THE CYBERWAR
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SOLDIER OF THE CYBERWAR

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A pioneer recounts French cyber defense Cyberspace has become a major arena of conflict. For the first time, here is the story of the creation of French cyber defense told by its principal founder, Vice Admiral Arnaud Coustillière. In less than ten years, the battlegrounds have multiplied across the Net: computer viruses, terrorist threats, interference...
The GIGN by Those Who Commanded It
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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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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,...
BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY BOB DENARD - THE GREAT MERCENARY OF THE 20th CENTURY 2
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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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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

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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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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...
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