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1944 War in Île-de-France. Volume 1, Preparations and the Air Battle – 1 May–15 June 1944
L20180155
€37.91
€55.92
From 6 June onwards, the Allies were establishing their first airfields in Normandy.
€28.34
A historical account tracing the two days of the advance by the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment at Colleville-Montgomery to secure the Normandy coast and reach a site designated Hillman. Fierce fighting against the German soldiers commanded by Ludwig Krug ensued, but the objective was achieved. Includes veterans' testimonies.
€9.48
€18.96
Tuesday 6 June 1944, at dawn, the German sentries on duty along the Sables d'Or beach and on the Pointe du Hoc make out menacing silhouettes offshore
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German Paratroopers Volume 3: Insignia, Identification Documents and Combat Operations...
L20180096
€75.78
The most comprehensive and detailed study of the uniforms and equipment of the German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) of the Second World War.
€18.91
The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. The Allied units of the Liberation
Normandy, Boulogne, Belgium, Holland, Germany
By Ed Storey
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U.S Half-Tracks Part Two - The development and deployment of all the U.S. Army's Half...
C9780986112744
€23.65
€47.30
The development and deployment of the U.S. Army's half-track based multiple gun motor carriages and gun motor carriages
€52.13
Inspired by a first edition published in 1997, this is an entirely new presentation, considerably expanded, with a completely revised selection of photographs.
€55.92
An engineer to his very core, Louis Breguet turned away after 1905 from electrical engineering to throw himself into aeronautics. He first experimented with rotary-wing designs, then focused on the biplane configuration with moderate success.
€55.92
May–June 1940. An ill-fated battle lost in forty-five days. Everything has been said, or nearly so, about those forty-five days — whether through general works covering all or part of the period, or monographs addressing particular aspects of the battle.
€55.92
On 5 June 1940, the Germans launched their second major offensive of the campaign against a severely weakened French army. The fighting on the Somme and the Aisne was of great intensity before the attacker's numerical and material superiority forced French troops to fall back gradually.
Pilot Scarf - Escape & Evasion Maps
SILK SCARF Muscat & Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, Trucial States ONC-J7
FOULARDUSAF ONC J7
€100.00
Silk-rayon scarf used by NATO fighter pilots.
These scarves, printed in the 1950s or 1960s, come from a NATO stock. The maps printed on the scarves were used by pilots for navigation, particularly in the event of a crash.
They were used during the Cold War and the Vietnam War. They are new old stock.
100% Silk
100 x 76 cm
Original NOS (New Old...
€14.69
The First Empire fixed, in near-immortality, the most classic silhouette of the hussar.
€14.69
This collection presents in synoptic form the regulation and non-regulation uniforms of officers and soldiers from the principal armies in history, from Antiquity to the present day.
€27.01
Napoleon I's crushing victory over the Prussian army on 14 October 1806 was in reality the combined effect of two simultaneous but entirely distinct battles.
Before Jena, Napoleon encountered the Prussian and Saxon army of Hohenlohe under numerical conditions favourable to the French army. From that perspective, the Battle of Jena in the strict sense was...
€37.87
THE FRENCH AIR FORCE IN NORTH AFRICA – Morocco – Algeria – Tunisia (1940–1967). VOLUME 2. By Alain CROSNIER
€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.
€28.39
From the south of France to the north of Norway, Hitler's Atlantic Wall first examines German defensive strategy, the various types of fortifications and bunkers, before presenting, country by country, all the most important sites — from the south-west coast of France, through Brittany, Normandy, the Pas-de-Calais, then Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark,...
€75.78
The most complete and detailed study of the uniforms and equipment of the German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) of the Second World War.
€18.91
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This work paints a colourful picture — perhaps too colourful given the first weeks of the conflict — of the French army in August 1914.
A concise vademecum for newcomers who will discover the uniforms of "the finest army in Europe" — if not the most powerful — and for enthusiasts who will have a clear, simple and...
€37.87
Following Le Tommy de la Libération and Le Canadien de la Libération, this book concludes the vast trilogy devoted to the Allied units engaged in the liberation of North-West Europe under the Anglo-Canadian command of the 21st Army Group.
€104.27
Women for Victory: American Servicewomen in World War II History and Uniforms Series – Volume 1
Katy Endruschat Goebel
€16.11
Louis XI against the League of the Public Weal
€18.96
The last war between Francis I and Charles V
€23.65
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...
€23.65
How did so few men manage, in just a few years, despite the relentless pursuit of German counter-intelligence services and the Vichy regime, to organize Resistance networks and gather so much intelligence?
€28.39
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ALPENKORPS, THE GERMAN ALPINE CORPS FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE HELL OF VERDUN
The German Alpine Corps, created in May 1915 as the first major German mountain unit, fought until 1918 on several fronts.
€22.75
Engaged in counterterrorism across various theaters of operations, French Army special forces have carried out numerous training and intelligence missions, as well as bold interventions that have rescued hostages and neutralized several dozen armed terrorist groups. This book offers a broad view of French Army special forces, describing the distinctive...
€19.91
The last hero.
Colonel Achille Muller, aged 101, is one of the very last Free French veterans of World War II. In 1942, at the age of 17, he left his native Moselle, annexed by the Third Reich, on a bicycle and traveled via Spain to London to avoid conscription into the German army and, above all, "to liberate his country and bring peace to...
€25.59
Kôgun, the emperor's army. Such is the name the Japanese army adopted from the early 1930s onwards, asserting its mission to protect a sovereign increasingly venerated as a living deity. It is the history of this military force and of a central institution of the Japanese nation-state, from 1853 to 1948, that Franck Michelin traces in this unrivalled...
€14.22
June 6, 6:31 a.m., the 4th Infantry Division lands on Utah Beach while the US Navy, with the USS Nevada, exchanges fire with the German batteries, including the powerful 210 mm guns of the Crisbecq battery, supported by the 105 mm guns of Azeville. At 6:33 a.m., Crisbecq fires three shells below the waterline of the USS Corry, which sinks shortly...