Editor's note: If the actions and packages of the German units are well known, and for a long time, through various writings relating to the Resistance of the interior which was... [read more]

Friday September 1, 1939, young Richard von Rosen, seventeen, learned of Germany's entry into the war. He volunteered in October 1940 and joined the Panzer-Ersatz-Abteilung 35 where he had to... [read more]

A history in more than a thousand pages! From the core of the 117 men who formed the Stabswache in 1933, Leibstandarte, Hitler's personal guard, became an elite motorized regiment, then a... [read more]

The assault guns were the first armored vehicles to break up the Waffen-SS divisions early in their military history. This first volume presents, for the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the... [read more]

Here is a very poorly known subject. A Waffen-SS Para Battalion was formed in the fall of 1943 to carry out special missions. The author, captain of the French Luftwaffe (FRG), a German, French... [read more]

The project of a richly illustrated two-volume study on the German armored unit, the (Wiener) 2.Panzer-Division, will finally succeed. The author Frédéric Deprun spent more than ten... [read more]

After his failure in front of Caen on June 6th, then the one suffered in Villers-Bocage a few days later, Montgomery relaunched the offensive west of Caen, to bypass the south-west capital of... [read more]

This book traces the role of the infantry through each important phase of the conflict, and its evolution following changes in the way of waging war. Coming from 90% of the Royal Museum of the... [read more]

The two authors, Frédéric Deprun and Baptiste Flotte, wanted to detail this episode of the Battle of Normandy starting with Operation Martlet, on the flanks of Operation Epsom.... [read more]

For the first time, the authentic story of Ponchardier's legendary Commandos! The story is based on original documents that had never been exploited before, from the funds of the few living... [read more]

Parachutist of the Bundeswehr retired, in this first volume on the SS-Fallschirmjäger, the author, Rüdiger WA Franz, immersed, in an unprecedented way, the reader in the constitution of... [read more]

June 17, 1940: while the French Army, in accordance with the orders given by Weygand on June 13, is in full retreat to the south-west and the Germans who perceived the amplitude of the movement... [read more]

The battle of Normandy programmed by the allies is based on a massive and rapid landing, which will destabilize by its audacity the German General Staff! In a few hours, 150,000 Allied combatants... [read more]

Major John Howard's "helping hand party" is arguably one of the most spectacular and famous commando-style operations of D-Day, or even World War II. After a brief and daring glider... [read more]

Through several testimonies and memories of veterans, the reader plunges into the daily life of a unit, the SS-Panzer Regiment 3 "Totenkopf", which fought only on the Russian front. She... [read more]

On June 5, 1940, the Germans launched their second major offensive of the campaign against a particularly weakened French army. The battles on the Somme and on the Aisne will take a great... [read more]

After the works dedicated to the Battle of Iwo Jima and the 1st Marine Division, Charles Trang offers us an encyclopaedic study on the Marines in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945, where each of their... [read more]

Far beyond mere narration, Sherman's Saga is a tank-based book, but it is divided into many facets. Didactic, informal, historical and pragmatic, it highlights the role and the difficulties... [read more]

Four years before the Allied landings in Normandy, the French coastline was the scene of another major episode of the Second World War. This was Operation Dynamo, much less known today than D-Day.... [read more]

They are a little forgotten in the history of the D-Day. On the night of June 5-6, 1944, while the men of the 82nd and 101st American Airborne Divisions and those of the 6th British Airborne... [read more]