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Liberating France, Invading Germany - The French Army at...
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Liberating France, Invading Germany - The French Army at the Front, 1944–1945

L20250137
€18.01
As France prepares to celebrate in 2025 the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this book recounts the final months of the conflict through the eyes of French Army photographers. Following the landings of summer 1944 and the liberation of Paris, the two armies from the west and the south joined forces in eastern France. This marked the...
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4585 Logger Briar Oil Slick Boots - Red Wing Shoes 4585 Logger Briar Oil Slick Boots - Red Wing Shoes 2
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Boots 4585 Logger Briar Oil Slick - Red Wing Shoes

RW 04585
€332.50
The Red Wing 4585 Logger Briar Oil Slick is a classic Red Wing Shoes model. With an 8'' (20.32 cm) shaft, it is made in Red Wing, Minnesota. It draws inspiration from the popular Moc Toe 8146, descended from a shoe created in the 1930s. The Red Wing Logger symbolizes the emergence of a "new nation" after the American Great Depression of 1929. The Red Wing...
Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer
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Killing Hitler: The 42 Assassination Attempts on the Führer

L20250125
€18.86
"I could take out that bastard with my eyes closed", proposed the British military attaché in Berlin, who laid out his plan of action to his superiors in 1939. Of the 42 documented assassination attempts on Hitler, the majority were carried out by the German resistance, which recognized early on Hitler's appetite for war. Ordinary citizens, workers,...
Lasalle - The Legacy of a Legend
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Lasalle - The Legacy of a Legend

L20250106
€18.86
A mythical figure of the Grande Armée's cavalry, Count Antoine-Charles-Louis de Lasalle fascinated generations of light cavalrymen the world over. Yet this inveterate drinker, gambler, swordsman and extravagant lover seems to have fallen victim to his own legend. Drawing on the analysis of previously unpublished archival documents, this book offers,...
The Commandos' Bagpipe – Bill Millin
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The Commandos' Bagpipe – Bill Millin

L20250091
€23.70
Bill Millin, piper and soldier, sounds reveille for the troops at the commando training centre in the Scottish Highlands, leads the way for volunteer groups who sweat, run or march, and also takes part, in battledress and boots, in manoeuvres in the harsh Scottish climate. On 6 June 1944, aged 22, he was chosen to "sound the charge" for the...
1966 Boonie Hat Olive Green - Pike Brothers 1966 Boonie Hat Olive Green - Pike Brothers 2
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1966 Boonie Hat Olive Green - Pike Brothers

P0603-22-0021
€40.83
These boonie hats are typical of the American sun and jungle hats worn by US G.I.s during the Vietnam War. Originally part of tropical equipment designed to protect soldiers from rain and sun, they gradually became not only an essential part of soldiers' kit, but also a symbol of the pacifist movement of the late 1960s. Composition: -100% cotton...
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1927 Harvester Braces Brown Reg - Pike Brothers 1927 Harvester Braces Brown Reg - Pike Brothers 2
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1927 Harvester Braces Brown Reg - Pike Brothers

P0602-25-0001
€49.17
The pair of braces has always been the indispensable accessory for work trousers or jeans. Pike Brothers has produced sturdy, extra-wide braces for trousers and denim jeans. Retro button braces — 45 mm wide straps — "Dutch cross" construction — leather buttonholes — engraved Pike Brothers logo on the cross — made in Germany. 2 sizes: M for individuals up...
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1940, The Allies' War Begins in Scandinavia 1940, The Allies' War Begins in Scandinavia 2
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1940, The Allies' War Begins in Scandinavia

L20250010
€18.96
The Franco-British intervention at Narvik, in Norway, in May 1940, passed relatively unnoticed because, at that very moment, Germany was launching its victorious offensive against France. History, for this reason, retains little memory of these battles, which took place beyond the Arctic Circle. By examining these battles in detail, François Gatineau...
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The Marines - History of an American Myth
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The Marines - History of an American Myth

L20250005
€24.64
This work allows the reader to discover the rich history of an elite corps that has become inescapable yet remains almost entirely unknown. Indeed, no one in France is familiar with its first hundred and fifty years before 1918 and the Battle of Belleau Wood; no one knows that it was initially scorned, mocked for its mediocre performance, cut back,...
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RECONSTITUTIONS - Immersion in Living History
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RECONSTITUTIONS - Immersion in Living History

L20240177
€36.97
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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