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LES JOURS SANS 1939–1949 FOOD AND SCARCITY IN WARTIME LES JOURS SANS 1939–1949 FOOD AND SCARCITY IN WARTIME 2
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Finding food: the other battle "No more bread. No meat since the day before yesterday. So many poor people are suffering. Many shops have not opened, for lack of heating or goods to sell. Lyon is silent and almost deserted."William Brunat, 2 January 1941
The MORANE SAULNIER 406 in the Armée de l'Air, the...
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Histoire de l'Aviation No. 51 Since 1998 and the first work on the Morane 406 published by Lela Presse, numerous discoveries have made a new publication essential. Proof of this lies in the sheer volume of this study, which required splitting it into two tomes even though it is devoted solely to the aircraft in French markings. The list of contributors...
THE KORSUN-CHERKASSY POCKET AND THE BATTLES OF THE... THE KORSUN-CHERKASSY POCKET AND THE BATTLES OF THE... 2
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The Gates of Hell Autumn 1943: following the German withdrawal after the Battle of Kursk, the Red Army poured across the vast Ukrainian steppe towards the Dnieper. This great river was intended by the Germans to serve as a stop line to halt a Soviet army of ever-growing strength, reinforced by a continuous flow of Allied materiel — hundreds of thousands...
THE SKIES OF THE REICH - 1944
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THE SKIES OF THE REICH - 1944

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February 1944: Operation Argument, the greatest aerial battle in history. It is too easily forgotten: the Americans and the British were not certain of success when they landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944. Their worst nightmare was the prospect of 1,000 Luftwaffe fighters — with the best pilots in the world — contesting air superiority over the beaches and...
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CSS ALABAMA – A Confederate Raider...
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Based on the logbook of Captain Semmes and the archives of the United States Navy The story of the CSS Alabama and her captain, Raphael Semmes, is unique in naval history. This frigate, built in Liverpool for the Confederate Navy and which never had a home port, waged a two-year commerce-raiding campaign against the merchant marine of the United States....
German Belt Buckles 1933-1945 Vol. 1 - Heer - Luftwaffe -... German Belt Buckles 1933-1945 Vol. 1 - Heer - Luftwaffe -... 2
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You have been waiting many years for it — at last, a publication in French on German belt buckles from 1933 to 1945. Authentic buckles will hold no more secrets for you; everything is broken down and explained in plain terms. This first volume presents the models of the Heer, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, the Polizei, the Postschutz and the RAD. The...
1944, AMERICAN ARMOUR - From Normandy to Mons 1944, AMERICAN ARMOUR - From Normandy to Mons 2
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The decisive success of Operation "Cobra" left in the collective imagination an indelible impression of overwhelming power. Images of a wave of tanks still associated today with an all-powerful US Army. And yet! Four years earlier, in July 1940, the US Army did not possess a single tank worthy of the name, nor a single armoured division! The purpose of...
The Other Landing - War Correspondents The Other Landing - War Correspondents 2
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At the heart of the summer 1944 fighting On 6 June 1944, the Allied Armada sweeping through the skies and onto the beaches of Normandy brought with it some of the most celebrated war correspondents, including photographer Robert Capa, writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway, and later Cornelius Ryan, author of The Longest Day. Women, though barred from...
Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations,...
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The Collaboration, between 1940 and 1944, was not an invention of the German victor; the latter occupied, administered, persecuted and plundered, without concern for the approval of the vanquished. It was the vanquished who first resorted to this word and gave it substance in the hope — quickly turned illusion — of profiting from it. The Collaboration...
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