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The Liberation Battles for Île-de-France – 19 to 31...
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Here, throughout the pages the author unfolds to feed our curiosity and knowledge, there are no heroes. Only ordinary people who, with fierce determination and unwavering resolve, broke the chains that bound them in their own country. A thousand common and varied stories unfold chapter after chapter; they also intersect with the major figures of the...
The Day Napoleon Almost Got Assassinated
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On 12 October 1809, Napoleon had installed himself in the residence of the Habsburgs, the dynasty ruling over Austria, which he had subjugated. Frédéric Staps, an exalted 18-year-old nationalist student, regarded the Emperor as a despot and intended to rid Europe of him. He had planned to kill Napoleon at a military parade. Blending into the crowd, he...
AUSTERLITZ - Napoleon's Greatest Victory
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On 2 December 1805, exactly one year and one day after his coronation, Emperor Napoleon engaged in battle against the sovereigns of Prussia and Russia. This battle would prove a model of conception, of methodical preparation, of mastery in execution, and stands as a testament to Napoleon's tactical genius. It was studied in war colleges across Europe for...
1940–1944 – The Young Resisters
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1940: secondary school pupils, university students and apprentices, wounded by the humiliation of the defeat, refused to settle into the compromise of collaboration and submission to Nazi Germany. Slowly, in lycées, collèges and universities, resistance networks took shape, led by activists as young as fourteen and no older than eighteen. This movement...
Special Dossier: THE ALGERIAN WAR
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The ordeal of French soldiers, prisoners of the Algerian army, forced to march day and night, to sleep in hollows on bare ground, or to live in natural underground galleries for months on end. The shooting of 26 March 1962 in Algiers, in which the French army fired on a peaceful demonstration by pieds-noirs, killing 80 people and wounding 200. The...
Edouard Brémond - The Anti-Lawrence of Arabia
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Who still remembers the light column launched in the conquest of Antananarivo (Madagascar)? The creation of the first Moroccan tabors? The French military mission to the Hejaz (Saudi Arabia)? The Cilicia campaign (Ottoman Empire)? Who still knows the name of General Édouard Brémond (1868–1948)? And yet! When his retirement entitlements were calculated,...
PRIGOZHIN: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WAGNER GROUP COMMANDER
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The Wagner Group, which came to prominence during the conflict in Syria, was for nearly ten years a major component of Vladimir Putin's war machine, operating worldwide in the exclusive service of Kremlin policy. In August 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin — the man who had been at its origin and who led it — died in a plane crash whose cause was in all likelihood...
DICTIONARY OF FRENCH MILITARY HISTORY – From the Origins...
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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...
DOSSIER MILITARIA No. 2: Normandy 44. Events and... DOSSIER MILITARIA No. 2: Normandy 44. Events and... 2
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This special issue is designed to accompany you in Normandy if you are attending the many events planned for this 80th anniversary. Our complete calendar is illustrated with an exclusive colour map locating all these events, so you can plan your itinerary as efficiently as possible and miss nothing! In the section devoted to museums, we have chosen to...
THE PANHARD EBR. A DISTINCTLY FRENCH INNOVATION THE PANHARD EBR. A DISTINCTLY FRENCH INNOVATION 2
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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...
THE 117TH CAVALRY. NORTH AFRICA — ITALY — FRANCE — GERMANY THE 117TH CAVALRY. NORTH AFRICA — ITALY — FRANCE — GERMANY 2
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This book is an illustrated account of the history of this mechanised cavalry unit, from the First World War, through the 1930s as a National Guard reserve unit, and then through the Second World War when it was mobilised. The 117th Cavalry passed briefly through England in 1942 and landed in North Africa. There it provided close protection for Eisenhower...
AMERICAN AIRMEN IN EUROPE, 1942 - 1945 AMERICAN AIRMEN IN EUROPE, 1942 - 1945 2
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This book presents in guide form the flight uniforms and equipment used on the European front by American airmen between August 1942, the date of the first bombing mission over France, and May 1945. Through hundreds of archive photographs and objects presented in detail, this new expanded edition traces the evolution of these items of equipment, the...
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