World War II Vichy French Security Troops (Men-at-Arms)

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and crus

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The French Army 1939-45 (1) : The Army of 1939-40 & Vichy France (Men-At-Arms Series, 315)

The French Army of 1939 was considered by contemporaries to be the strongest army in the world at that time. In fact, as the events of the next ten months soon revealed, the Army was riddled with fatal weaknesses. In this book, the first of two volumes examining the French Army of World War II (1939

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France in the Second World War: Collaboration, Resistance, Holocaust, Empire

During 1940-1944, the citizens of France and its Empire endured the ‘dark years’ of invasion, persecution and foreign occupation. Thousands of men, women and children suffered arrest, deportation and death as the French Vichy regime worked to secure a place for France in Hitler’s New Order. Fr

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Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth

In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America’s preeminent literary scholars tells his story of coming of age in France during the buildup to the Second World War. As a Jewish youth in France during the 1930s, Victor Brombert’s heady explorations of sex and love were

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My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

" My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association . . . A detailed and important record of twentieth century art." - The Boston Globe On September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in N

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French Navy 1939–42: The Marine Nationale in World War II (Fleet, 16)

An authoritative, illustrated analysis of the official French Navy in World War II, under the command of the Third Republic and of Vichy. At the outbreak of World War II, the Marine nationale was the most powerful navy in continental Europe, unified in its purpose of defending the nation and the

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Murder on the Quai (An Aimée Leduc Investigation)

The world knows Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this  New York Times  bestselling series, as a  très chic , no-nonsense detective—the toughest and most relentless in the City of Lights. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimée first c

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The Extreme Right in France

A comprehensive new historical study of the extreme right in France, from the Vichy regime to the present day. The Front National has for some years been France's third political party and the most significant extreme-right force in Europe; its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, contested the second round

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Fay Taylour, 'The World's Wonder Girl': A Life at Speed

Fay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Her succ

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The Liberation of Strasbourg 1944

The Strasbourg liberation story has been both neglected by wider audiences in favour of the Battle of the Bulge, and disputed in France, between promoters of the recently commissioned Free French resistance fighters, and the claims of the colonial divisions from the then French Empire, who fought an

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The Night Gate

**THE BRAND-NEW THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** **"AN AUTHOR I'D FOLLOW TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH"- THE NEW YORK TIMES ** **PETER MAY: OVER 5.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE** In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fall

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