French Military

The fateful days and weeks surrounding June 6th, 1944, have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in defense of liberty and freedom.

Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army.

Napoleon Bonaparte's rise from common origins to the pinnacle of power, as well as his defeat at Waterloo, still influences our daily lives, from the map of Europe to the metric system. Here's the fascinating story of the great soldier-statesman.

This is one soldier's story of Napoleon's fateful invasion of Egypt and Syria. In this book, Lieutenant Philippe Fourier and his fellow officers storm Alexandria and defeat the combined armies of the Mameluke Beys in the Battle of the Pyramids. But rather than submit to the French, the Mamelukes retreat into the desert and begin waging a vicious insurgency supported by the British and the Ottomans. As the French pursue them, marching deeper into the remote deserts and mountains of Egypt and Syria, their goal turns from victory to survival.

King Louis Philippe II created the Foreign Legion in 1831 as a way to rid France of penniless immigrants and others considered a liability to the French establishment. The Foreign Legion still exists today as an elite army of modern mercenaries from around the world, in the service of la France. Considered a haven for the dregs of society, joining the Foreign Legion was rumored to be simple, but it wasn't.

Tous les fronts dans ce livre audio. Cet ouvrage est né d'un constat paradoxal. Si nous croulons a priori sous les livres portant sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il existe en réalité peu de grandes synthèses sur le sujet – et aucune de l'envergure de celle que propose Olivier Wieviorka. Fruit de nombreuses années de travail, elle innove d'abord par son approche globale qui la distingue des classiques anglo-américains qui privilégient les seules opérations militaires.

Formerly published under the title Hand-to-Hand Combat, this 1917 manual has been revised and colorized for clarity's sake. The Great War was entering its third bloody year, and even the proud and stubborn French command had to concede that old methods weren't working. To be sure, in a hypothetical situation wherein two infantrymen were rushing at one another across an open battlefield, the soldier with the 20 inch "épée bayonet" fixed on the end of his 51.2 inch Lebel 1886 rifle would appear to have the clear advantage over the German adversary with his shorter Mauser with Seitengewehr ...

Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of riflemen join the assault of a strong French force holding the Holy City of Santiago de Compostela.Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of Riflemen are cut off from the rest of the army and surrounded. Their only hope of escape is to accept the help of the Spanish, but this assistance comes at a price: to join the assault on the holy city of Santiago de Compostela, held by a strong French force.

En pleine Révolution Culturelle, le pouvoir chinois construit une base militaire secrète destinée à abriter un programme de recherche de potentielles civilisations extraterrestres. Ye Wenjie, une jeune astrophysicienne en cours de "rééducation" parvient à envoyer dans l'espace lointain un message contenant des informations sur la civilisation humaine. Premier volume d'une trilogie déjà culte, récompensé par le Prix Hugo du meilleur roman en 2015, "Le problème à trois corps" marque l'arrivée d'un auteur majeur sur la scène de la science-fiction.

Le manuscrit des "Derniers Jours de nos pères" a été récompensé par le Prix des Écrivains genevois. Londres, 1940. Soucieux de pallier l'anéantissement de l'armée britannique à Dunkerque, Winston Churchill a une idée qui va changer le cours de la guerre: créer une branche particulière des services secrets, le Special Operations Executive (SOE). Elle lui sera directement rattachée, et chargée de mener des actions de sabotage et de renseignement à l'intérieur des lignes ennemies. Tous ses membres seront issus des populations locales pour être insoupçonnables.

The opening years of the French and Indian War were disastrous for the British. Hindered by quarrelsome provincial councils, incompetent generals, and the redcoats' inability to adapt to wilderness warfare, Britain was losing the war. Learning that most of Britain's military resources were allocated to Louisbourg, the French launched a campaign along the weakened frontier. French Commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and his American Indian allies laid siege to Fort William Henry; Monro could not hold out and was forced to surrender.

Annie et Lee n'étaient encore que des enfants lorsqu'une violente révolution a renversé leur monde, offrant à tous - y compris aux citoyens de basse naissance - la possibilité d'accéder à l'élite dirigeante des dragonniers. Issue d'une famille pauvre, Annie a perdu toute sa famille dans une exécution par feu de dragon. De son côté, Lee aux origines aristocratiques, a vu tous ses proches assassinés par les révolutionnaires. Tout oppose les deux jeunes orphelins, à commencer par leur passé, pourtant les voilà propulsés parmi les étoiles montantes du nouveau régime.

Les Carryx mènent des guerres de conquête depuis des siècles, détruisant ou réduisant en esclavage des espèces dans toute la galaxie, au sein d'un plus vaste conflit avec un ennemi ancien et immortel. Lorsqu'ils arrivent sur le monde isolé d'Anjiin, la population humaine est humiliée, massacrée et asservie. L'auteur de l'incontournable saga "The Expanse" revient avec un nouveau "space opera" spectaculaire qui voit l'humanité lutter pour sa survie dans une guerre aussi ancienne que l'univers lui-même.

When Darcie purchases several old suitcases at auction that had been abandoned in a railway station locker, she doesn't know what to expect. The first is disappointing but as she opens the second, she discovers rare and beautiful dresses for the 1940s, lovingly folded, and a notebook of designs to go with them. Written inside the cover is the name: Nathalie Leroux Why did she leave her most prized possessions at the station eighty years ago? Darcie's quest for answers will draw her into the world of the French resistance as she works to uncover the truth about a devastating wartime secret.

"Tu as sûrement entendu parler des Enfers ? Là, c'est pareil, mais le diable lui-même ne comprendrait pas ce qu'il se passe ici." " Je suis certain que nous avons réveillé leur satané Sisu. – Je ne parle pas leur langue, camarade. – Et je ne pourrais te traduire ce mot, car il n'a d'équivalent nulle part ailleurs. Le Sisu est l'âme de la Finlande. Il dit le courage, la force intérieure, la ténacité, la résistance, la détermination... Une vie austère, dans un environnement hostile, a forgé leur mental d'un acier qui nous résiste aujourd'hui.

Grâce à Ender, le Porte-Parole des Morts, Lusitania est devenue une planète indépendante où Piggies et humains cohabitent tant bien que mal. Les Doryphores, eux, ont décidé de migrer... et risquent de propager sur d'autres mondes le virus de la Descolada, indispensable à la survie des Piggies mais mortel pour l'humanité.

‘ What if you raised the lid of a piano stool in a bombed-out house and discovered a photograph of your mother with a German soldier… in NORMANDY? Vera Lawson accepts an offer of employment with the aristocratic Wellmont family in London as a tutor. But she has an ulterior motive. Could her mother, the scatterbrained Caroline Montieff, have fled to France in search of her lost freedom? Gunther Polt, a Waffen SS Tank Commander, aristocratic, arrogant and wealthy with vast estates in Germany, finds himself in an impossible position. Vera knows the family are hiding the connection between ...

The battle for Tallarn rages between the traitor Iron Warriors and the Imperial Army. A carpet of armour covers the surface of the toxic planet: Dreadnoughts versus tanks versus Titans. But what secret purpose drives the Iron Warriors onwards to war?

Héros de la Grande Guerre, putschiste improvisé, chômeur morphinomane, homme d'affaires talentueux, dandy corpulent, orateur tonitruant, ministre de l'Intérieur sans scrupules, parvenu millionnaire, collectionneur d'art compulsif, maréchal de l'Air amateur, tel est Hermann Goering, le deuxième homme du IIIe Reich. Voici, grâce à une abondante documentation allemande, anglaise, américaine et suédoise, ainsi qu'à l'interview de témoins tels que l'aide de camp d'Adolf Hitler, le régime national-socialiste revisité au travers d'un personnage démesuré – à tous les sens du mot.

An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically grueling training in harsh climates, the legion fought in French wars from Mexico to Madagascar, Southeast Asia to North Africa. In At the Edge of the World, historian Jean-Vincent Blanchard follows the legion's rise to fame during the 19th century - focusing on its campaigns in Indochina and especially in Africa.