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BD TOMCAT
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BD TOMCAT

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25 October 1994, off the coast of San Diego, California. An F-14 is about to land on a carrier when a serious incident occurs. In the final seconds before crashing, the aircraft sees its entire life flash before it, from its birth to its final flight… TOMCAT follows the intertwined destinies of this aircraft and KARA HULTGREEN, the first female fighter...
French Nationalist Movements 1920–1945 French Nationalist Movements 1920–1945 2
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French Nationalist Movements 1920–1945

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From the Action française league to the LVF, by way of the PPF and the Milice française, this work offers a broad overview of French nationalist movements from 1920 to 1945. Its presentation in album-book format, showcasing a variety of items (photographs, insignia, membership cards) — many previously unpublished — will delight historians and collectors...
2nd Class Submarines and Minelayers of the French Navy... 2nd Class Submarines and Minelayers of the French Navy... 2
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2nd Class Submarines and Minelayers of the French Navy 1922–1945

L20240190
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This work is primarily devoted to the 34 2nd class submarines and the six minelayers (Saphir type) produced under the naval construction programmes of 1922 to 1936. The post-1945 period of the 2nd class Aurore-type submarines — the first of which was only just completed in June 1940 — is briefly mentioned. The contemporary 1st class submarines (Requin and...
MARCEL BLOCH AIRCRAFT - Volume 1: Early Successes MARCEL BLOCH AIRCRAFT - Volume 1: Early Successes 2
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MARCEL BLOCH AIRCRAFT - Volume 1: Early Successes

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Among all the great French aircraft manufacturers, Marcel Bloch is one of the least well known, as are his aircraft. It is time to fill an important gap and present his productions, which left their mark from the 1930s through to the Second World War. How, by applying a policy of small steps and always building on his previous experience — good and bad...
COMIC SABOTEUSES - VOL. 3 - MOUCHE
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COMIC SABOTEUSES - VOL. 3 - MOUCHE

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London, 1942. Hannah is a sensible housewife raising two children in a city under the Blitz. Cold by nature, she no longer understands what she is doing there, waiting for her husband each evening and for the war to end, while others disappear or help keep the country alive. Her mind made up, she decides to enlist and join the S.O.E. Normandy, a few...
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COMIC INVISIBLE ENEMY
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COMIC INVISIBLE ENEMY

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The "Puma" fighter pilots of the 101st Air Wing of the Hungarian Defence Forces regularly patrol the skies on their mission to defend NATO airspace. In 1990, this unit was named in honour of Dezso Szentgyorgyi, the greatest Hungarian ace of the Second World War. Like many other pilots who, as he did, did not leave their country after the war, he had to...
COMIC Sans Peur et Sans Pitié Volume 1
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COMIC Sans Peur et Sans Pitié Volume 1

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1947. A former officer is found murdered in Paris. The police attempt to solve the crime and discover that it may be linked to events that took place during the Second World War, among the men of the 6th Moroccan Tirailleur Regiment. The investigation unfolds at the same pace as the regiment's feats of arms are revealed. Not content with a didactic...
BD Dreaming Eagles BD Dreaming Eagles 2
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BD Dreaming Eagles

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In the 1960s, as the civil rights movement shocks America, World War II veteran Reggie Atkinson watches his teenage son Lee get drawn into the dangerous struggle for racial equality — and fears for him. Twenty years earlier, in an unlikely place called Tuskegee, Alabama, officer candidate Atkinson and his fellow trainees report for pilot training. The...
Manga Interceptors Vol. 1 - New Guinea Campaign Manga Interceptors Vol. 1 - New Guinea Campaign 2
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Manga Interceptors Vol. 1 - New Guinea Campaign

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During the Second World War, the Pacific Front was the theatre of aerial battles that have since become legendary, fought between American forces and the Imperial Japanese Army. Seiho Takizawa takes us into the New Guinea Campaign, following Sergeant Unno, a pilot flying the Kawasaki Ki-45 and the Nakajima Ki-43.
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Manga Wartime Pilots Manga Wartime Pilots 2
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Manga Wartime Pilots

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A new collection of short stories by Seiho Takizawa, a master of aviation manga. The story that gives the collection its title, Shah's Pilot, is based on accounts from Iranian F-14 pilots during the Iran-Iraq War — a little-known yet heroic episode. The F-14 Tomcat, an American-built fighter famously featured in the film Top Gun, formed the spearhead of...
RECONSTITUTIONS - Immersion in Living History
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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...
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AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World
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AMERICA IN A BOTTLE - How Coca-Cola Colonized the World

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"Coca-Cola! Delicious! Refreshing! Stimulating! Invigorating!" On 29 May 1886, The Atlanta Journal published the first advertisement for the beverage invented a few months earlier by John Pemberton. This pharmacist from Columbus, who sold thirteen glasses a day of his soda flavoured with kola nut and cocaine, was far from imagining that, a hundred years...
The Captain Made His Escape - account of a sensational...
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The Captain Made His Escape - account of a sensational escape in the Belle Époque

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A member of the French secret services, Captain Charles Lux was arrested on 3 December 1910 in Friedrichshafen, while preparing to infiltrate a zeppelin hangar housing the famous German airships... Tried for espionage before the High Court of Justice in Leipzig, he was convicted — despite the absence of evidence of his intentions — and sentenced to serve...
The History of the 14 July Military Parade – In Paris,...
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The History of the 14 July Military Parade – In Paris, Since 1880

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For nearly 150 years, on 14 July, the French army has paraded through Paris — yet the history of this ceremony, followed each year by millions of French people, has never before been told. Drawing on more than 300 rare or unpublished photographs and a wealth of archival sources, Christian Benoit analyses this event, which symbolises the bond between the...
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1929–1935 - The Crisis
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1929–1935 - The Crisis

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Through the profound destabilisation it caused, the crisis of 1929 reshuffled the cards of history. The post-war period was thought to be over, inflation finally tamed, the thorny question of reparations settled by the Young Plan, peace definitively guaranteed by the League of Nations and the Briand-Kellogg Pact. And yet within a few years all these fine...
LECLERC TANK, FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE CONFLICTS OF TOMORROW
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LECLERC TANK, FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE CONFLICTS OF TOMORROW

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Designed to destroy Soviet tank hordes on the plains of Germany, the Leclerc set the performance bar so high that, forty years after its conception, engineers the world over still dream of matching it when designing a new tank. Hitting seven moving targets at up to 3,000 m while travelling cross-country at 50 km/h in one minute is a feat achievable only...
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HS Gazette Des Armes No. 28 — THE KALASHNIKOV — FROM THE... HS Gazette Des Armes No. 28 — THE KALASHNIKOV — FROM THE... 2
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HS Gazette Des Armes No. 28 — THE KALASHNIKOV — FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE PRESENT DAY

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Designed by a young Red Army sergeant, Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, who wanted to provide Soviet soldiers with a quality weapon, the Kalashnikov became the symbol of communist armies and of the guerrilla movements supported by China and the USSR during the Cold War. It has since become a commercial product, sometimes arming Russia's enemies or anti-communist...
THE FRENCH ARMOURED CORPS FROM 1916 TO THE PRESENT DAY
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THE FRENCH ARMOURED CORPS FROM 1916 TO THE PRESENT DAY

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The appearance of Leclerc tanks during the Bastille Day parade is always an event, as much for the spectators as for the men manoeuvring these steel giants. With its vehicles each more impressive than the last, the Arme Blindée et Cavalerie has been one of the major components of the French Army since the Second World War. Officially born in North Africa...
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THE PANHARD EBR. A DISTINCTLY FRENCH INNOVATION THE PANHARD EBR. A DISTINCTLY FRENCH INNOVATION 2
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THE PANHARD EBR. A DISTINCTLY FRENCH INNOVATION

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Emerging from the Second World War, the Panhard company successfully responded to an ambitious Army programme for an engin blindé de reconnaissance (armoured reconnaissance vehicle), abbreviated EBR. In doing so, it would quite literally make this EBR acronym its own, offering the armoured cavalry a mount that was both original and innovative. In post-war...
DICTIONARY OF FRENCH MILITARY HISTORY – From the Origins...
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DICTIONARY OF FRENCH MILITARY HISTORY – From the Origins to the Present Day

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As General de Gaulle expressed it in a celebrated and striking phrase: "France was forged by the sword." To study the history of France — and in many respects the history of Europe and the world — one must above all take into account the military history of our country. To avoid misreadings, anachronisms and other hazardous interpretations, here is — from...
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Materiel Regiments and Bases. History and Traditions of... Materiel Regiments and Bases. History and Traditions of... 2
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Materiel Regiments and Bases. History and Traditions of the Maintenance Soldiers

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A soldier without operational equipment cannot win the war: the crucial role of maintenance personnel, the craftsmen of victory… Since man has waged war, he has needed to maintain and repair his weapons. Having long been a service, the Materiel only became a branch of arms in 1976. However, maintenance personnel have always existed: from the king's...
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Battalions of Chasseurs - History and Traditions of the... Battalions of Chasseurs - History and Traditions of the... 2
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Battalions of Chasseurs - History and Traditions of the Chasseurs à Pied and Chasseurs...

L20240078
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The first book devoted to the history and traditions of the battalions of chasseurs Elite troops whose exploits are beyond counting, the "chasseurs" have a rich history. Bataillons de chasseurs invites you to explore the key events that made these soldiers famous, and also to (re)discover the traditions unique to these troops, which together forge the...
Fortifications in the Northern Alps - France, Switzerland, Italy. Volume 2 Fortifications in the Northern Alps - France, Switzerland, Italy. Volume 2 2
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Fortifications in the Northern Alps – France, Switzerland, Italy. Vol. 2

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The history of fortifications in the Northern Alps retraces the genesis of military works in the mountains or in the foothills that marked the boundaries of the highly fluctuating territories at the heart of Europe — principally those of the House of Savoy. It will be observed that the architecture of these forts evolved with advances in artillery and...
MAGIRUS: HISTORY OF FIRE ENGINE VEHICLES MAGIRUS: HISTORY OF FIRE ENGINE VEHICLES 2
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MAGIRUS: HISTORY OF FIRE ENGINE VEHICLES

L20240050
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In 1864, Conrad Dietrich Magirus founded the Feuerwehr-Requisiten-Fabrik von C. D. Magirus. Four years later, he presented a first ladder model that immediately captured the attention of German firefighters as well as those of a great many other countries. The great Magirus ladder adventure had begun. Throughout all those years, the Magirus company went...
SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana 2
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SELVA - The 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment in French Guiana

L20240048
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« SELVA »: this small word of Brazilian Portuguese punctuates, day after day and year after year, the conversations of the legionnaires serving in the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment, signifying by turns a word of thanks, a negation, a question, or concretely the acceptance of a received mission. Is this merely a superfluous affectation, of little interest...
From the Siebel to the Martinet - 27 Years Under Our...
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From the Siebel to the Martinet - 27 Years Under Our Roundels

L20240043
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This volume traces the history of the NC 700, 701 and 702 "Martinet" aircraft under French roundels, as well as that of the Siebel 204 D aircraft built in France from which they derived. Although more than 350 aircraft of this type served in the French air forces until the mid-1960s, the "Martinet" are often overlooked in accounts devoted to operational...
BMW Twin-Cylinders 1950/69 from the R51/3 to the R69/S... BMW Twin-Cylinders 1950/69 from the R51/3 to the R69/S... 2
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BMW Twin-Cylinders 1950/69 from the R51/3 to the R69/S Telescopic and Swing-Arm...

L20240034
€56.87
BMW Telescopic and Swing-Arm Generation "magneto" R67 R67/2 R67/3 R68 R51/3 R50 R60 R69 R50/S R50/2 R60/2 R69S R50US R60US R69US The "BMW magneto models" are, post-war, the R67/2, R67/3, then the R51/3, R68, and finally the Earles-fork motorcycles R50, R60, R69, R50/S and R50/2, R60/2, R69/S — immortalised by their Earles forks — except for the last ones...
Fighter Squadron 3/3 Ardennes 1943 – 2023
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Fighter Squadron 3/3 Ardennes 1943 – 2023

L20240031
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The Fighter Squadron Ardennes holds a unique place in the order of battle of the Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace. In 2023, it celebrated its 80th anniversary. We felt it was the right moment to mark this occasion by retracing its history. The unit was disbanded and re-established on several occasions. Only the Escadrille BR 44, attached to the squadron at a...
LA PATROUILLE DE FRANCE Illustrated
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LA PATROUILLE DE FRANCE Illustrated

L20240028
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La Patrouille de France: a legacy spanning 70 years. This official aerobatic display team of the French Air and Space Force has been thrilling audiences worldwide since 1953. This hardcover album illustrates the highlights of these aviators who have flown over New York, the Great Wall of China and many other iconic locations. To mark the 70th anniversary...
FRENCH MILITARY HELMETS - GUIDE MILITARIA N° 9 FRENCH MILITARY HELMETS - GUIDE MILITARIA N° 9 2
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FRENCH MILITARY HELMETS - GUIDE MILITARIA N° 9

L20240025
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Illustrating the great diversity of helmets worn by French servicemen, this new edition of the reference work will enable readers to understand their evolution from the late nineteenth century to the present day. This panorama of nearly 200 objects focuses on the steel helmet, the emblematic headgear of the French Army, while also illustrating the variety...
FRENCH MILITARY HEADGEAR - GUIDE MILITARIA N°3 FRENCH MILITARY HEADGEAR - GUIDE MILITARIA N°3 2
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FRENCH MILITARY HEADGEAR - GUIDE MILITARIA N°3

L20240024
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This new edition of the work, aimed at a wide audience, illustrates the evolution of headgear worn by French soldiers from the War of 1870 to the present day. While the iconic képi takes pride of place among the nearly 250 items presented, shakos, bicornes, sidecaps, chéchias and berets are not forgotten, nor are sailors' bonnets and peaked caps. This...
La Patrouille de France – 70 Years of Excellence La Patrouille de France – 70 Years of Excellence 2
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La Patrouille de France – 70 Years of Excellence

L20240017
€52.13
On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, the Patrouille de France pauses for a brief moment in flight. Through the pages of this book, it turns respectfully toward its past, recounts the major milestones of its evolution, recalls the aircraft that have successively carried it, and pays tribute to all those who have given life to a saga streaked with blue,...
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From the 9th DIC to the 9th BIMa: 80 years of a brigade... From the 9th DIC to the 9th BIMa: 80 years of a brigade... 2
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From the 9th DIC to the 9th BIMa: 80 years of a brigade looking to the future

L20240016
€23.60
The 9th Marine Infantry Brigade, a major formation of the French Army, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year and the 60th anniversary of its establishment in the Grand Ouest. Heir to the "Blue Division" that had distinguished itself in 1870 during the fighting at Bazeilles, the 9th Colonial Infantry Division was established in North Africa in July...
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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...
THE T-72 - THE WORKHORSE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY
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THE T-72 - THE WORKHORSE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY

L20230166
€28.34
Born in the early 1970s, the T-72 very quickly became the backbone of Soviet armoured divisions in the second half of the Cold War. Distinguished by its robustness and reliability, the tank above all closed a period of doubt and hesitation within the Soviet military-industrial apparatus: the T-55 and T-62 were rapidly obsolete and the T-64 was too...
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF FRANCE
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF FRANCE

L20230163
€34.12
Thousands of discoveries constantly emerge under the archaeologists' trowel. The remains of dwellings, tombs, sanctuaries and workshops enrich our heritage as much as our understanding of past societies. Never before had these archives of the soil — from the Rhine to Finistère, from the Bay of the Somme to Corsica and the overseas territories — been...
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