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American Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers – Volume II
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Navires & Histoire du Monde No. 44 The American Essex-class aircraft carriers served from 1943 to 1991, from the second part of the Pacific War to the end of the Cold War. Twenty-four vessels were actually commissioned. No two ships are exactly alike, owing to different shipyards, evolving detection equipment, varying degrees of modernization, repairs...
American Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers – Volume I
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Navires & Histoire du Monde Collection N°43 The American Essex-class aircraft carriers served from 1943 to 1991, from the second half of the Pacific War to the end of the Cold War. Twenty-four vessels were actually commissioned. No two ships are exactly alike, owing to different shipyards, evolving detection equipment, varying degrees of modernisation,...
RECONSTITUTIONS - Immersion in Living History
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From the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic to the soldiers of the Second World War, by way of the great age of chivalry and the battles of the First Empire, reenactors seek to represent the lives of our ancestors as closely as possible to reality. Analysed by historian Martin Bostal, a specialist in recreations of the past, Barry's photographs offer an...
Uniforms and Equipment of U.S Army Infantry, LRRPs, and...
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This book is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by U.S. Army soldiers, LRRPs and Rangers during the Vietnam War. This new, extensively researched volume is a comprehensive guide to the history, development, wear, and use of uniforms and equipment during America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Included are insignia, headgear,...
Uniforms & Equipment of U.S. Military Advisors in...
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This book is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and Marine Corps soldiers who fought alongside and advised the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. This new, extensively researched volume (volume two in the series) is a comprehensive guide to the history, development, wear, and use of uniforms and equipment...
Air War Over Vietnam 1961-1973 Air War Over Vietnam 1961-1973 2
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Air War Over Vietnam 1961-1973

L20240107
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US Air Force, US Navy, USMC, US Army, North and South Vietnamese Air Forces Having begun very discreetly in 1961 with the deployment of a handful of American "advisors" alongside the newly formed SVNAF, the South Vietnamese air force, the air war in Southeast Asia — and in Vietnam in particular — grew steadily in scale until, at its peak in 1968, the US...
THE SKY RHAPSODY - Vol. 1 Uncle Mechano THE SKY RHAPSODY - Vol. 1 Uncle Mechano 2
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Inspired by Rupert, a deceased star pilot, fourteen-year-old Natalia dreams of adventure in the skies and has one great ambition: to become a female pilot — something her father neither appreciates nor approves of. After clashing with her father, Natalia embarks on an impulsive journey to visit her uncle, who lives in Himmelslautern: Alfred, Rupert's...
THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS - The Untold History of Native...
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Throughout his career as a foreign correspondent, Emmanuel Razavi had the opportunity to spend time on numerous occasions among the Native Americans of Canada and the United States. Over the years, he made friends among the Sioux, the Mohawks, the Cheyennes and the Navajos. Thanks to them, he was able to obtain exceptional interviews with the last...
ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES - Large Format ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES - Large Format 2
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February 1954… In Korea, after four years of a bloody conflict, a fragile armistice has been signed! The war is put on pause for thousands of GIs, even as the situation is more tense than ever and a nuclear conflict looms. Yet there is a buzz on the American bases… For, on her honeymoon in Japan with her new husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn...
ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES 2
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ANGEL WINGS T8 - ANYTHING GOES

L20230060
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February 1954… In Korea, after four years of a bloody conflict, a fragile armistice has been signed! The war is put on pause for thousands of GIs, even as the situation is more tense than ever and a nuclear conflict looms. Yet there is a buzz on the American bases… For, on her honeymoon in Japan with her new husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn...
FACTORY-ORIGINAL WARTIME JEEPS: Originality Guide...
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The wartime Jeep continues to fascinate enthusiasts around the world, nearly eight decades after the first prototypes were built. Yet while it is true that there was only ever one Jeep, it is emphatically not the case that there was only one variety of Jeep. Not only were Jeeps built by both Willys and Ford, but the supposedly standardised design...
M24 Chaffee Vol.1 American Light Tank in World War II,...
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The M24 Chaffee was the finest light tank developed by the US during WWII. This tank was developed by Cadillac, which, along with farm equipment manufacturer Massey-Harris, produced the vehicles. These tanks were used by the US during WWII and Korea and, during the post-WWII era, were supplied to numerous allied nations. This book chronicles the...
THE AMERICAN FORCES IN VIETNAM 1962–1967 THE AMERICAN FORCES IN VIETNAM 1962–1967 2
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This 4th volume of the Guides Militaria presents, in chronological order, the evolution of uniforms, equipment, and weaponry of the American soldier during the early years of the conflict, from 1962 to 1967 (the period 1968 to 1975 is covered in a second volume). All uniforms and equipment are period-original; only a few replica weapons were used. In...
THE WEAPONS OF THE FOREIGN LEGION FROM 1831 TO THE...
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In the Legion you make do… That is how legionnaires have always known how to get the best out of the weapons issued to them. This work presents all the small arms used by legionnaires from 1831 to the present day. The author peppers his account with numerous anecdotes illustrating how these elite soldiers put them to use. He also covers marksmanship...
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...
Bell UH-1 Huey – On All Fronts
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Made famous by the films Apocalypse Now, Platoon and We Were Soldiers, the Huey was the true workhorse of the U.S. Army throughout the Cold War. The product of a mid-1950s research programme for a helicopter heavier and more robust than those previously fielded by the U.S. Army, the first examples entered service in the United States at the beginning of...
Target Saigon: The Fall of South Vietnam
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Volume 2: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 – March 1975 A detailed account, based heavily on Vietnamese sources, of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South. • A new study based primarily on Vietnamese-language sources, describing the disintegration of South Vietnam • Fully illustrated with rare and previously unpublished...
Dispatches from Vietnam
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Vietnam Dispatches

L20200231
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Vietnam Dispatches brings together John Steinbeck's final series of war reportages. Previously unpublished in France, this work gathers the chronicles written from 1966 for Newsday magazine by the man who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. John Steinbeck, aged 64, is already an ailing...
THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2 THE ACTION DIVISION IN LAOS 1945 – Missions KAY 1 and KAY 2 2
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On 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan. Taking advantage of the ensuing confusion and of France's weakness, the independence movements did everything to prevent her return to the Union. In Laos, the Lao Issara independence movement and the Viet Minh would oppose the roughly 500 fighters of the Franco-Laotian guerrilla, who...
RESCUE DAWN
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RESCUE DAWN

L20200164
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Dieter Dengler joined the U.S. Air Force in 1958 and was assigned in 1965 to the aircraft carrier USS Ranger, from which he flew missions over North Vietnam. In February 1966, his aircraft was shot down and he was taken prisoner by Communist Pathet Lao militiamen, who subjected him to torture and humiliation. An account later adapted for the screen by...
MISTY MISSION — COMPLETE EDITION MISTY MISSION — COMPLETE EDITION 2
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MISTY MISSION COMPLETE EDITION

L20220261
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That war wrecked us, it put an end to so much hope. We learned that we couldn't always win, and that from then on people hated us. But for three residents of Danville, a run-down town in Alabama — a rich kid, a worker's son made ill by his job, and a girl from the middle-class neighbourhoods — it would mean far more. Simply the end of what they believed...
MISTY MISSION T3 - LARGE FORMAT B&W MISTY MISSION T3 - LARGE FORMAT B&W 2
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Vietnam War, 1968. Two friends who could not be more different find themselves thrust into the defining conflict of the decade. Nick Beaulieu, an F-100 pilot, is part of the Misty Mission unit, also known as Commando Sabre — "mavericks" whose job is to carry out aerial reconnaissance. Josh Lacour has joined the men of MACV/SOG, clandestine units operating...
MISTY MISSION T3 - FROM DARKNESS TO PURGATORY MISTY MISSION T3 - FROM DARKNESS TO PURGATORY 2
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Vietnam War, 1968. Two friends who could not be more different find themselves thrust into the defining conflict of the decade. Nick Beaulieu, an F-100 pilot, is part of the Misty Mission unit, also known as Commando Sabre — "mavericks" whose job is to carry out aerial reconnaissance. Josh Lacour has joined the men of MACV/SOG, clandestine units operating...
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