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The Companions of the Liberation in Brittany
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The Companions of the Liberation in Brittany

L20200208
€17.06
Portraits of nearly one hundred men named Companions of the Liberation, across the five départements of historic Brittany. It is the most prestigious title of the Ordre de la Libération, created by General De Gaulle during the era of Free France, in exile in London. Completed after the war, it is a definitive list of 1,038 individuals, 5 French communes...
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The Vikings – History & Tales
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The Vikings – History & Tales

L20200233
€23.70
The great episodes of Viking history, from Erik the Red to Harald Fairhair, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, are retraced in documented accounts. From the lively pen of Jean Mabire, here is the fabulous history of the Vikings, kings of the seas, superbly told. Gathered here are the exploits of Erik the Red, Harald Bluetooth, Harald Fairhair and...
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Secret Album of the Templars
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Secret Album of the Templars

L20200234
€21.80
A compilation bringing together, in an album illustrated primarily with fine antique colour engravings, the greatest secrets of the Templars… * Following the Secret Guide and the New Secrets on the Templars, a selection of the most mysterious and original stories about the Order of the Temple, gathered in a large-format volume. * Antique colour...
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History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution
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History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution

L20200236
€7.54 €15.07
Where and when did the very first drops of wine pass down a thirsty throat? What could the taste of the "nectar of the gods" in Antiquity possibly have been? Some 2,600 years ago, our ancestors living on the land of present-day Marseille discovered wine with delight. Shortly afterwards, the Gaulish elites began importing it in considerable quantities. But...
Exceptional Women in the Middle Ages
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Exceptional Women of the Middle Ages

L20200237
€15.07
If great men embody history, the same cannot be said of women, so consistently has the past been cast in masculine terms. Yet certain women of the Middle Ages once left their mark on their era: queens, saints, writers or adventurers. The medieval chronicles evoke the figures of queens Clotilde, Radegonde, Brunehaut, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Blanche of...
U-Boote – The Germans' Submarine War
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U-Boote - The German Submarine War

L20200238
€23.70
Until the First World War, submarines had played only a very limited role. Poorly armed, slow to dive and to advance, they posed no threat to warships or merchant vessels. But between 1914 and 1918, Germany staked everything on them to bring down Great Britain — whose very existence was threatened. Nazi Germany once again gambled its future on the...
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In the Lair of the Mirage 2000D – Nancy-Ochey
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In the Lair of the Mirage 2000D – Nancy-Ochey

L20200241
€19.91
Air Base 133 "Commandant Henry Jeandet" at Nancy is one of the oldest in the French Air Force. Soon to be a century old, it alone offers a striking summary of the history of French military aviation, from the first bomb drops over the trenches to all-weather precision bombing, by day and by night. After living to the sound of the legendary Jaguar and...
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Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment – A Squadron in Combat
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Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment – A Squadron in Combat

L20200242
€37.91
The Normandie-Niemen celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2017. The squadron was forged in hardship, during some of the fiercest fighting of the Second World War. And 75 years later, it is still in combat that it marks this major milestone in its existence. The bloody missions in the skies over Russia, where 42 pilots paid with their lives for their total...
WHEN THE ALLIES BOMBED FRANCE 1940–1945
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WHEN THE ALLIES BOMBED FRANCE 1940–1945

L20200249
€23.70
Quand les Alliés bombardaient la France sets out to explain the reasons for the raids, to describe their preparation, their execution — sometimes seen from the air, sometimes from the ground — and their results relative to objectives. Numerous first-hand accounts and a taste for precision take us inside both the cockpit of a bomber and the streets and...
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"You Are My Soldiers" — The Aquitanians of Napoleon III
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"You Are My Soldiers" — The Aquitanians of Napoleon III

L20210055
€8.48 €16.97
It was thus that the future Napoleon III concluded his "discours de Bordeaux" on 9 October 1852. And these "soldiers" upon whom he would rely were the architects of the political, social and economic transformation of France. Among them, many Aquitanians — whether politicians such as the Bordelais Mocquard, the Périgourdin Pierre Magne or the Pyrénéen...
Cooking and Eating in the Middle Ages — History, Produce,... Cooking and Eating in the Middle Ages — History, Produce,... 2
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Cooking and Eating in the Middle Ages — History, Produce, Techniques and Recipes

L20210057
€14.12
Discover the story of Taillevent and his celebrated book, le Viandier, that of the master cook Chiquart, or that of the Mesnagier de Paris and many other culinary works. Then reinvent the galimafrée, savour a brouet, and taste the unmissable blanc-manger with red fruits! Travel to the heart of medieval cuisine through the pages of this work with its...
MAY–JUNE 40, the Invader's Gaze — Unpublished German... MAY–JUNE 40, the Invader's Gaze — Unpublished German... 2
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MAY–JUNE 40, the Invader's Gaze — Unpublished German Photographs of the Debacle

L20210060
€23.70
The present work revisits the German perspective on the Battle of France of May–June 1940. Unprecedented, drawn from a private collection of more than 2,000 photographs, this book presents essentially "private" images, in the sense that they were taken by the soldiers themselves as "souvenirs" to bring home — in which respect they fulfil the same role as...
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