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]

May-June 1940. An unfortunate battle lost in forty-five days. Everything has been said or nearly, over these forty-five days, whether through general works covering all or part of the period or... [read more]

May-June 1940. An unfortunate battle lost in forty-five days. Everything has been said or nearly, over these forty-five days, whether through general works covering all or part of the period or... [read more]

6 June 1944. The Allies landed in Normandy. Referring first of the genesis of the landing, then this guide portrays the German defenses which the attackers had to face. Then, sector by sector, he... [read more]

At the Trident Conference in Washington in May 1943, the landing area was chosen for Overlord: rather Normandy in Pas-de-Calais. The density of German divisions is much stronger in the latter... [read more]

This book (Battles and Testimonials) presents the history of anti-tank group of the Das Reich from 1941 to 1944, thanks to the testimony of two officers of this unit, the SS-Hstuf. Claudius Rupp,... [read more]

This book is worth being discovered. Our readers will find the story of flight operations on the landing in Provence, including parachuting and other bombardment of cities. But this book is... [read more]

Night of June 5 to 6, the Pathfinders were the first Allied soldiers to land on the Norman ground, the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Division will fight all night, joined by the 4th... [read more]