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ARMS & ARTILLERY
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From the United States to the Soviet Union, from Germany to Japan: a world tour of the weapons that shaped World War II. 150 weapons used by the various belligerents are featured.
€23.60
FIGHTING AMONG DRONES AND ROBOTS
In Ukraine, drones and robots have imposed a new reality of combat. What is at stake in this war is a major break in military history, comparable to the advent of firearms, but infinitely faster. It will shape all future conflicts and spread across the world. Henceforth, war will be waged with systems capable of extending...
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NUTS & BOLTS VOL 50: Sd.Kfz. 7 - 8 ton Zugkraftwagen Krauss-Maffei and variants -...
L20260034
€37.82
Sd.Kfz. 7 – 8-ton half-track (Zugkraftwagen) Krauss-Maffei and variants; 10 cm Kanone 18 heavy gun & Sd.Ah. 115 trailer
As volume 34 devoted to the Sd.Kfz. 7 has long been out of print, we received numerous requests for a new edition. We therefore decided to respond to our readers' wishes. However, rather than offering a simple reprint, we chose to update...
€24.49
The Webley revolvers were the principal sidearms of British officers during the extraordinary colonial expansion that characterised the Victorian era. Initially purchased privately by officers of Her Majesty, these revolvers were subsequently adopted by the British Army as its regulation sidearms from 1897 to the Second World War.
Riding high on the hip,...
€4.74
Having to use a firearm to save one's own life or that of another leaves no room for chance, as shooting at an individual must always be the last resort. This above all requires asking the right questions so as not to make the wrong decision about whether or not to arm oneself.
In this handbook, the author offers a genuine reflection on the subject, in...
€18.96
A handgun carrier will often find themselves, at one point or another in their journey, questioning their training.
If one works within an organisation, this issue is managed by the unit's instructors, but nothing prevents additional solo training, provided it does not conflict with the doctrine of one's service. Understanding is a prerequisite for any...
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Practical Shooting — Recreational Shooting, Defensive Shooting — École Nationale...
L20250103
€21.80
« WEAPON: any object or device designed or intended by its nature to kill, wound, strike, neutralise or cause incapacitation. » (Article R311-1, paragraph I, 2°, of the Code de la sécurité intérieure)
Using a weapon is not a game! It may be used for recreational purposes, but its primary function must never be forgotten. It is for this reason that...
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The Cold War began as early as 1945 and ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Two blocs faced each other throughout this period: NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The USSR then developed new handguns in line with its strategy. These weapons were issued to fraternal nations and supplied Marxist-aligned rebellions… The Cold War began as early...
€56.87
A previously unpublished work on the role of pharmacists in the gas war during the First World War. This original study retraces the horror of these battles and the protective measures available to the belligerents.
« France has no chemists — only pharmacists! ». Such is the famous, cutting remark attributed to the German chemist Haber, the instigator of...
€37.44
In the autumn of 1914, the French army was brutally confronted with a new form of combat: trench warfare. In order to counter the fire of the Minenwerfer and strike the enemy sheltering at the bottom of his trenches, it was necessary to create a new curved-fire artillery piece capable of launching heavy explosive-laden projectiles. Improvised in a matter...
€33.18
Tracked armoured vehicles Sd.Kfz. 138/2 Jagdpanzer 38.
Comprehensive study of these vehicles. This book contains 645 illustrations including 565 photographs (335 period photos from the front or drawn from technical manuals, 230 colour photographs of restored vehicles with detailed photoscope). 80 technical drawings (colour profiles) in 1/35 scale with...
€11.37
Scoped combat shooting (TCL)
Today, the effectiveness of sniping remains uncontested and its objectives remain the same as in the past:
- destabilisation of the adversary;
- destruction of command elements;
- enhancement of fire support.
On the other hand, since combat takes place at the level of small units, it must be taught down to the smallest...
€21.80
Principles and methods of basic and advanced marksmanship instruction
Today a large number of professionals, in both the public and private sectors, recognise that the authors of this work have a comprehensive approach to marksmanship instruction.
Marksmanship technique is now integrated, or about to be, by most major European institutions.
However, they...
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With this manual, Philippe PEROTTI provides a quick yet effective learning method for the practice of tracking.
Scope of application of tracking
Individual and collective techniques
Components of a mission
Considered by some as an outdated or unreliable technique, tracking can often make the difference in the successful execution of a mission… This...
€42.65
Tactical instruction and employment of snipers.
From 1 to 1000 is above all a guide for the training and employment of snipers, but it also offers a fresh perspective on sniping...
A proposed employment concept ranging from the four-man team to the sniper company provides a broad overview of the operational possibilities of this specialty.
The technical...
€18.96
Scope of competence for the pistol carrier
Day / night shooting programme
Simplified shooting stoppages
Use of the bulletproof vest
€33.18
Shooting techniques and training programmes for the use of the M16 rifle and its variants.
€20.85
Effective, rugged and modern are certainly the adjectives that best define the author's approach to the instruction and employment of snipers.
With this new work, Philippe Perotti provides the essential tools for making the most of the .338 Lapua Magnum calibre.
He also develops a wide range of aspects of the specialty that significantly enhance the...
€27.49
This manual dedicated to "Immediate action techniques" complements the shooting technique manuals from the same publisher. The authors share their experience by describing, in this essentially practical work, a clear and precise method for teaching "small-unit combat techniques".
Immediate Action Techniques (IAT) enable:
1 - to instruct collective...
€33.18
In this fourth and penultimate volume of the series on the Sturmgeschütze of the Waffen-SS, Pierre Tiquet turns his attention to two celebrated armoured divisions, at one time grouped together within the II. SS-Panzer-Korps: the 9. and 10. SS-Panzer-Divisionen, respectively named "Hohenstaufen" and "Frundsberg".
Despite the fairly rapid disbanding of...
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HS Gazette Des Armes No. 28 — THE KALASHNIKOV — FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE PRESENT DAY
L20240118
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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...
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HS Gazette Des Armes No.30 - Weapons under the Occupation - Collaboration & Resistance
L20240068
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The defeat of 1940 and the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany quickly sparked a new conflict — an internal one this time — in which Collaborationist France, body and soul devoted to the Vichy regime, and groups of resistance fighters intent on preparing the liberation of the country would clash.
The German army's attack on the USSR in June 1941...
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HS Gazette Des Armes No.31 - Lee-Enfield Rifles - The Standard-Issue Weapons of the...
L20240067
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For nearly a century, the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles were protagonists of contemporary history on every continent. The Lee-Metfords, the first small-calibre repeating rifles adopted by the British Army, began to make their mark in the hands of Lord Kitchener's soldiers in the Sudan against the Mahdi's forces, and then in South Africa against the...
€15.07
Across France, more than 500,000 hectares of land had been mined during the Second World War. Nearly 6 million mines were laid on Field Marshal Rommel's orders as part of the Atlantic Wall alone, to defend the French beaches against invasion.
The Normandy coastline proved severely affected by this "mine warfare."
With Liberation came the time for...
€21.55
While Winchester carbines are an integral part of the historical heritage of the United States, they were also used by soldiers and hunters of many other nations.
Winchesters are also an essential prop in any good Western. Owning an antique Winchester — or even a contemporary replica — places its owner in communion with the epic of the Far West, to which...
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NUTS & BOLTS VOL 48 - schwerer Panzerspähwagen on Büssing-NAG, Daimler-Benz and Magirus...
L20230137
€31.18
Six-wheeled armoured reconnaissance vehicles Sd.Kfz. 231, 232 and 263 from Büssing, Daimler-Benz and Magirus.
Schwerer Panzerspähwagen (6-Rad) on Büssing-NAG, Daimler-Benz and Magirus chassis Sd.Kfz. 231, 232, 263 and variants
Complete study of these vehicles. This book contains 478 illustrations including 430 photographs (326 period photos from the front...
€22.75
The discovery of the collective weapon that artillery represents, born of the combination of advances in science, technology and tactical innovation in the field.
Decisive on the battlefield, artillery nonetheless remains one of the great forgotten subjects of military history. This paradox is, in our country, all the more striking given that French...
€37.87
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During the Great War, the French army went from a single motorised heavy artillery group comprising four batteries to a vast array of motorised equipment fitted with more than 2,000 field, heavy and high-powered artillery pieces, representing nearly 15% of the French artillery park.
Guy François traces the genesis of this...
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The Italian combat dagger began its long career at the very heart of the First World War trenches. Adopted by the "Compagnie della morte" from late 1915, it was the instrument of death of the Arditi troops who spread terror among their Austrian enemies. From that period on, the combat dagger became the symbol of "Arditismo", taken up by fascism for its...
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The 40th Artillery Regiment has a rich history that begins at Saint-Mihiel at the dawn of the 20th century. Since then, the 40th has lived through the Great War and the Battle of France, risen from the ashes in the desert sand, and taken part in the Liberation. Stationed in Suippes, in the Marne since 1975, the regiment is today part of the 2nd Armoured...
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French Artillery in the 18th Century - Organization and Tactics of the Three Arms
CollLiv205
€94.79
Title: French Artillery in the 18th Century - Organization and Tactics of the Three Arms
By Staff-Qualified Commandant Ernest Picard and Lieutenant Louis Jouan
Publication date: 1906
In good condition,
€25.50
An illustrated history that will reveal the singular identity of the artilleryman
Soldiers who bring thunder down upon the battlefield, artillerymen have a rich history. Artillery Regiments invites you to explore the key events that made the reputation of these soldiers, as well as to discover the soul of the artillery: weapons and units, symbols and...
€60.66
This "V1 weapon of despair" is in a different league from its predecessor, which was nonetheless praised in its time by the specialist press. To state that it contains 60 new plans, 514 new photographs and 20% more text only defines in a cold and imprecise manner the sheer scale of the enrichment brought. Every chapter without exception has been reworked...
€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...
€22.75
Continuing his series on the Sturmgeschütze of the Waffen-SS, in this 3rd volume Pierre Tiquet examines three major formations engaged on often secondary theatres of operations: two mountain divisions — the 6th and 7th — and one cavalry division — the 8th. Less frequently discussed, they are nonetheless fascinating and were confronted with hard-fought...
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NUTS & BOLTS VOL 47 - Horch's leichte Panzerspähwagen on Einheitsfahrgestell I & II -...
L20220385
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Horch's leichte Panzerspähwagen on Einheitsfahrgestell I & II for s.Pkw. Sd.Kfz. 221, 222, 223, 247, 260, 261 and variants
Comprehensive study of these vehicles. This book contains 660 illustrations including 444 photos (293 period photos from the front or drawn from manuals, 151 colour photos of restored vehicles with detail photoscopes). 16 camouflage...
€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...
€37.87
General Guy François, born in 1946, has been conducting research for over forty years on the history of French artillery, particularly regarding the Heavy Railway Artillery. Author of numerous articles in specialist journals, he has also written reference works on German railway artillery and the 75mm model 1897 gun.
Published by Histoire et Collections,...
€36.97
It was at the beginning of the 16th century that Basque craftsmen began making firearms. But it was not until the end of the 19th century that Spanish Basque gunmaking took off with the development of major companies such as that of the Orbea family.
The industrial revolution, the creation of new trades around small arms manufacturing, and the arrival of...
€54.98
SOUTH AFRICA - ALBANIA - ALGERIA - GERMANY - ARGENTINA - AUSTRALIA - AUSTRIA - BELGIUM - BURMA - BRAZIL - BULGARIA - CANADA - CHILE - CHINA - SOUTH KOREA - CROATIA - DENMARK - EGYPT - SPAIN - ESTONIA - UNITED STATES - FINLAND - FRANCE
The first submachine guns were developed during the Great War. After 1918, the weapon was of only moderate interest to...
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GERMANY - ITALY - JAPAN - HUNGARY - BULGARIA - CROATIA - SLOVAKIA - ROMANIA AND FINLAND
All Axis member countries used a large number of sidearms throughout the conflict. The majority of these were standard-issue weapons, manufactured locally or purchased abroad, as well as weapons acquired from neutral countries such as Spain.
Finally, territorial...
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On 15 September 1916, the first British tanks went into action against the enemy lines; the novelty of the threat compelled the German Army to design, in haste, weapons and ammunition capable of countering them. In the spring of 1918, distribution of the Tank-Gewehr — an anti-tank rifle of 13 mm calibre — began, while on the eve of the Armistice, the...
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Comprehensive study of these vehicles. The book contains 486 illustrations including 167 period photographs from the front or drawn from technical manuals, 208 colour photographs of restored vehicles with detail photoscopes, 21 colour photographs of models, 21 camouflage schemes and 69 scale drawings.
Regarding volumes 19, 22, 26 and 43, one important...
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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...
€31.18
Complete study of these vehicles. This book contains 449 photographs, including 290 period photographs taken at the front or drawn from manuals, 113 colour photographs of restored vehicles with detail photoscopes, 28 colour photographs of 5 models, 16 camouflage scheme illustrations and 69 scale drawings.
240 pages, soft cover, german & english...
€17.06
The equipment of the Great War presented in profile form, illustrated by Eric Schwartz and captioned by Yves Buffetaut
The aces of the Great War
The victories of Manfred von Richthofen
The main types of French fighters
British and German fighters
Reconnaissance and light bombing
Armoured cars
Tanks
More than 200 colour profiles
€27.49
Since the fourteenth century, artillery has been at the heart of every battle that has shaped the history of France. To write an exhaustive history of it is a daunting challenge to which several volumes would barely do justice. Such a work would need to address, in detail, the evolution of equipment and weapons systems, of organisations, of employment —...
€25.59
Proceedings of the study day of 9 April 2005 at the Artillery Museum of Draguignan. Written by some of the finest specialists in this field, Artillery and Fortifications sheds often fresh light on little-known questions.
€42.65
This work is a reissue of a study published in 1872 by infantry lieutenant-colonel Jean Capdevielle, already under the same title: L'armement et le tir de l'infanterie, but originally published in two separate parts, one containing the text, the other bringing together in an "Atlas" a collection of plates and tables.
This new edition not only reunites the...
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The Guns of Victory 1914–1918 - Volume 1, Field Artillery: Light Pieces and Heavy Pieces
L20210084
€94.79
The French army entered the field in August 1914 with an extraordinary field gun, the 75, which was supposed to do almost everything. At that point, French ranks possessed only a very limited complement of heavy field artillery: barely three hundred guns of 120 and 155 calibre, of which only around one hundred could be considered modern. On the other...
€18.01
In this work, Eugène Hennebert, a retired lieutenant-colonel of the Engineers, traces the history of torpedoes from antiquity — including certain forms of Greek fire — through to his own era, with the first torpedo boats and submarines.
With the aid of numerous illustrations, he describes the various models invented, the means of deploying them and the...
€37.44
In this second volume on the Sturmgeschütze of the Waffen-SS, the reader will find the history of the assault guns of the "Totenkopf" division, initially organized as a single battery and later expanded into a powerful three-battery Abteilung.
Plunged into the ordeal of the Demyansk Pocket in the winter of 1941/42, the Sturmartilleristen endured almost...
€31.18
Complete study of these vehicles. This book contains 275 photographs, of which 199 are period photographs from the front or taken from manuals, 142 colour photographs of restored vehicles with detail photoscopes. 41 colour photographs of 5 models by Tony Greenland, Vinnie Branigan and 3 other modellers. 64 pages of text and technical tables in English and...
€60.66
Paul Malmassari had already published, in the early 1990s with Heimdal, a reference work on the subject of armoured trains — a topic generally little treated. An undisputed specialist in the field, the author this time proposes a new and very different approach to the history of these steel giants dependent on the railways.
From their origins to the...
€61.61
This work will soon stand as a reference on a subject that will captivate collectors as well as all those passionate about history, who will find here a richly presented treatment of a particularly abundant topic. Since ancient times, the sword that accompanied the knight carried a highly symbolic value. From the sixteenth century onwards, the sword was...
€36.97
From the remote reaches of Ouaddaï in Chad to the plains of the Euphrates in Iraq, the Bigors of the 11th have been deployed on every overseas operational theatre for more than 40 years. Heir to the 1st Colonial Artillery Regiment, whose memory it carefully preserves through the battle honours inscribed on its standard, the 11th Marine Artillery Regiment...
€18.48
Through a fascinating collection of testimonies and numerous photographs from veterans of the "LSSAH" division, the German author Thomas Fischer takes us into the world — often poorly understood — of artillery… and what is more, that of the 1st Waffen-SS division! A welcome change from the Panzers or the Grenadiere, the world of the Artilleristen is just...
€33.18
Nebeltruppen, the German Army's Rocket Launchers 1939–1945. Uniforms, insignia, organisation, by Franck Bachmann and Jacques Maignon.
€71.09
Octavo paperback, 66 pp. Numerous plates and in-text figures. Armour plating is the armoured cladding applied to warships. The many plates depict armour plates variously affected by shellfire. The iconography is very rich.
€27.96
Assault guns were the first armoured breakthrough vehicles of the Waffen-SS divisions at the outset of their military history.
€27.96
All artillery pieces from the end of the Ancien Régime to the First Empire.
Approaching the French artillery of the First Empire requires a detailed examination of the learned arm at the end of the Ancien Régime and during the Revolution. This is one of the aims of this work.
€84.36
A corporate book published in partnership with MBDA (the Franco-British-German-Italian European consortium), issued in 2 languages (FR, GB). European tactical missiles — whether anti-tank, air-to-ground, anti-ship or surface-to-air — have played a decisive role in contemporary conflicts around the world for decades.
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WEHRMACHT 46 — Volume 2 — The Reich's Arsenal: Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS,...
L20190007
€37.82
Much has been said about the "wonder weapons" — as visionary in some respects as they were fantastical in others — studied or deployed in 1944–45 by Nazi Germany in an attempt to reverse the course of the war.
€37.82
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Much has been said about "wonder weapons" — as visionary in some respects as they were fantastical in others — studied or deployed in 1944–45 by Nazi Germany in an attempt to reverse the course of the war.
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On 1 January 1921, in order to comply with the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, the Reichswehr retained no more than 204 7.7 cm guns and 84 10.5 cm howitzers. With the exception of this meagre allocation, the entire artillery park of the Deutsche Armee existing on 11 November 1918 was seized or scrapped.
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The aim of this book is to draw up, in the Hague peninsula, an inventory of German remains from the Second World War.
€37.82
With Hitler in power, he renounced the Treaty of Versailles, including its restrictions on the construction of fortifications. This is how the major fortification programmes along the borders of the Reich began. From 1935, several types of modern fortifications were defined, and by 1937, 26 fortified lines had been erected facing France, Czechoslovakia...
€94.79
With the new and monstrous form taken by the war that began "with a flower in the rifle barrel" on 2 August 1914, both sides developed over four years a formidable artillery of very large calibre.
€18.91
With this final volume, the pontonniers, sedentary artillerymen and coastal artillery gunners — too often left in the shadows — are brought to light, along with the equipment and pieces they served.
€15.64
At the time of entry into the war, the American field artillery (Field Artillery) was lagging behind both technically and in terms of doctrine.
€189.57
Study of fire against aerial targets by Captain Lévy — 1917
Confidential report on the origins of anti-aircraft artillery (A.A.). Numbered copy 300. Includes a note from the General Staff.
RARE
€71.09
Handbook 303" and 303" converted Machine Gun mounted on carriages, M.G., Infantry; Carriages, Parapet: Tripod and Cone Mountings 1911. Reprint with amendments 1915.
€33.18
Technical Manuals (TM)
Field Service Manual for the Artillery Officer - Practical Cases - 1927
CollDoc0006
€142.18
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Among all the roles women were able to fulfil in wartime, one of the hardest and most improbable was that of sniper.
While at the beginning of the war women snipers were isolated cases, their numbers grew rapidly following the creation of the Central School for the Training of Women Snipers. They faced enemy fire, harsh weather conditions, and hours or...