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THE ANONYMOUS HEROES OF SUMMER 44
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They always refused to be regarded as heroes, yet during the summer of 1944 they lived through extraordinary adventures.
Hartmannswillerkopf - 1914-1918 Hartmannswillerkopf - 1914-1918 2
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The Hartmannswillerkopf is a massif dominating the Alsatian plain that was, in 1915, the scene of fierce fighting between French and German forces. This iconic site of the Great War is sanctified by the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers from both sides. One of France's four national war memorials was built there. No book had previously retraced, in text...
Aviators in the Indochina War 1945-1957 - Testimonies
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The Indochina War as told by those who lived it. Such could be the title of this work, which brings together testimonies from veterans of the air force and from their army comrades, in support of whom the former so often fought.
Honour, Not Honours - Memoirs, Volume 1: With the 2nd REP in Algeria
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This account is a testimony to the Algerian War, to the military operations in which the author — a paratroop officer in the Foreign Legion — took part, as well as to the generals' putsch of April 1961. On graduating from officer school in 1954, Pierre Montagnon — top of his class — chose the Legion's paratroopers. He remained with them until 1961, first...
General Lardant - Soldier of the Mountain Troops
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In the late 1880s, alpine light infantry battalions and alpine infantry regiments were formed. This marked the birth of troops specialised in mountain warfare.
WITH BIGEARD - from Tu Lê to Diên Biên Phu WITH BIGEARD - from Tu Lê to Diên Biên Phu 2
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When, in November 1945, he set foot on Indochinese soil for the first time, Marcel Bigeard did not know then, as he wrote in his Memoirs thirty years later, "that there would be many more steps to come, thousands of kilometres travelled... over long years, and that, like so many others, he would be marked for life by this captivating country". 
From Antwerp to Dunkirk - 1940 War Memoirs
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This book traces the war of an ordinary soldier. In a sober style, Lucien Richard, a corporal conscripted into the 121st RI, gives a day-by-day account of the episodes of his campaign against Germany in 1940. Setting off like his comrades — confident and determined — to aid Holland, he is forced to face the reality: aircraft and tanks give the Germans an...
THEY FOUGHT May-June 1940 - Unpublished Photos and... THEY FOUGHT May-June 1940 - Unpublished Photos and... 2
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The defeat of 1940 remains the greatest political and moral drama to have shaken France in the 20th century. Beaten in six weeks, the French have since retained the impression of an ill-equipped national army and a poorly commanded country, quicker to flee than to resist the enemy. More broadly, the "syndrome of forty" is a deep trauma in the collective...
The French and the War of 1870
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The French and the War of 1870

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In July 2020, the country commemorated the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the War of 1870, which from 18 July 1870 to 28 January 1871 pitted France against a German coalition led by Bismarck's Prussia. Declared for a reason rooted in the Ancien Régime, this conflict is characterised militarily by extremely bloody battles that foreshadow those of the...
Summer 1870 - The War as Told by the Soldiers
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On 19 July 1870, Napoleon III fell into Bismarck's trap and declared war on Prussia. In a state of exaltation, seasoned soldiers and young recruits alike headed towards the eastern frontiers. No one could then imagine the catastrophe awaiting France. Defeated on its own territory, the country would lose Alsace and northern Lorraine before settling into a...
War in the Open Sky - Iraq 1991, the Dreamed Victory
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Ideal victory or illusory victory? An idealized victory in any case, the Gulf War was born from the symmetrical confrontation of the Cold War. It is at once rooted in the 20th century and heralding today's conflicts centred on the mastery of information. The current situation in the Middle East also reveals its long-term consequences. It is therefore rich...
French Nuclear Deterrence in Action - Dictionary of a...
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French deterrence merges with the strategy for which it was designed: to keep, in sovereignty, any major war far from national territory. This mission has been unchanged since France's first nuclear test in 1960. The impetus had been given by General de Gaulle as early as 1945, but this ambition could not have been realised without the mobilisation of a...
Edouard Detaille - A Century of Military Glory
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Édouard Detaille embodies, single-handedly, the military painting of his era — that of the first forty years of the Third Republic. He bore witness with his brush to the hardships and greatness of his fellow soldiers of 1870. His immense talent is placed at the service of the cult of the French soldier, dominated by the heroic figure of Emperor Napoleon....
The End of the Reich - April, May 1945: Unpublished...
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On 24 March 1945, for the first time since Napoleon, foreign armies crossed the Rhine to invade German territory. The first Anglo-American elements engaged in the fierce fighting that was to open the way to the heart of the Nazi Reich. On the eastern front, the Red Army, drunk with vengeance, broke through the German defences one by one along a merciless...
Our Baptism of Fire - August-December 1914, Unpublished...
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Among the many works devoted to the Great War, here is a fine book that stands out for four distinctive features: – It is devoted exclusively to the first four months of the war, the period subsequently known as the "war of movement", from August to December 1914, the deadliest months of the entire conflict. – It brings together only unpublished images,...
Honour, Not Honours - Memoirs, Volume 2, The Captains'...
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In the first volume of his Memoirs, Pierre Montagnon recounted his war in Algeria, from November 1954 to 1961, in the ranks of the Legion's paratroopers. Returned to civilian life after 22 April 1961, he did not give up. Having clandestinely returned to Algiers to face the inevitable independence, he joined the team that would be named the "Soviet des...
The Red Devil, Ace Georges-Félix Madon 1892–1924
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Georges-Félix Madon is the fourth-highest ace of the Great War by number of confirmed victories. The red colour of his aircraft and his reputation earned him the nickname "the Red Devil" from the Germans. A corporal-pilot in August 1914, he was a captain and squadron leader at the Armistice, bearing a Croix de Guerre with 17 palms and 3 stars for his 41...
The Other War of Independence - 1812, History of the...
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In 1812, as Napoleon's Grande Armée enters Russian territory, another war ignites in North America. It pits the United States of America against their former metropolis, England. Hostilities begin with an American invasion of the British province of Upper Canada. The British response, allied with the Indians, is crushing. Land battles continue around the...
Memoirs of a Poilu of the 15-2 - Hartmannswillerkopf...
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The Hartmannswillerkopf is a major site of the Great War. This vantage point, whose slopes drop down into the Alsace plain, was in 1915 the scene of bitter fighting between French and German forces. Its bloody memory haunted the survivors. Among the French units engaged at the Hartmann, the 152nd Infantry Regiment distinguished itself by the sacrifices it...
Torpedoes
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Torpedoes

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In this work, Eugène Hennebert, a retired lieutenant-colonel of the Engineers, traces the history of torpedoes from antiquity — including certain forms of Greek fire — through to his own era, with the first torpedo boats and submarines. With the aid of numerous illustrations, he describes the various models invented, the means of deploying them and the...
Civil and Military Architecture from the Middle Ages to...
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Civil and Military Architecture is a pioneering work of the nineteenth century, one of the very first to classify manor houses, house façades and fortified castles, and to organise the history of architecture into chronological periods. Turning the pages amid the ever-present illustrations, the reader travels through the history of France and perceives...
The Maginot Line - Design, Construction, Fate
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The Maginot Line is the third French fortified system. While its construction is explained by the prevailing context of the interwar period, it is also explained by a centuries-old pattern of behaviour aimed at securing French borders.
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 1, From 400...
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 2, From 700...
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From...
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
History of Military Orders or of Knights - Book 4, From...
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This History of Military Orders or of Knights, of secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several authors specialising in the antiquity of these Orders — such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc. — authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their...
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