Editions Heimdal - Böcker

A spectacular, large format, full colour book, packed with over 200 photographs, maps and charts. The book is divided into the sectors associated with the Normandy landings in 1944.

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* A biographical novel covering the life and triumph of William the Conqueror William I was born in 1028, and became the first Norman King of England at the age of thirty eight until his death in 1087.

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The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen", also known as SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9 Hohenstaufen or 9. SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, was a German Waffen-SS Armoured division which saw action on both the Eastern...

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The 101st Airborne Division-the "Screaming Eagles"-is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for its role in Operation Overlord-the D-Day landings starting 6 June 1944, ...

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During the night of 5-6 June 1944, the Pathfinders were the first allied soldiers to set foot on Norman soil, the paratroops of the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Divisions fighting all night until the 4th Infantry Division, landing on Utah Beach, li...

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Finally, a terrain guide for this tragic, iconic beach. General Shuey, the author, was close to the action. As a young officer, he served under the orders of veterans of Omaha beach, like General Cota, and he commanded the celebrated 116th Infantr...

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The "Corridor of the Death" is the bottleneck of the famous Falaise-Argentan pocket, where the German fighting forces will be destroyed by Allied power. The Germans will leave several thousand dead and 40,000 prisoners in the pocket, after half of...

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This beautiful book combines archaeological documents, paintings and photos of a reconstruction of the first wooden amphitheatre at the Coliseum. It is a complete documentation with all categories of gladiators with their particular equipment up t...

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This book traces the history, organization, uniforms and equipment between 1939 and 1945 of the Waffen SS. This elite force counted nearly a million volunteers from all European countries. Enjoying the full support of the Nazi regime, Waffen SS wi...

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This second volume traces the history, organization, uniforms, and equipment of the Waffen SS between 1939 and 1945. This elite wing of the Nazi party counted nearly one million volunteers from all the countries of Europe. With the full support of...

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Heinrich Severloh, dans son émouvant récit autobiographique, raconte la plus grande opération du débarquement amphibie de toute l'histoire, lorsque les Alliés, au Jour-J, le 6 juin 1944, lancèrent à l'aube devant le côte normande leur offensive co...

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Mai-juin 1940. Une bataille malheureuse perdue en quarante-cinq jours. Tout a été dit ou presque, sur ces quarante-cinq jours, que ce soit au travers d'ouvrages généraux couvrant tout ou partie de la période ou de monographies relatant des aspects...

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May-June 1940. An unfortunate battle lost in forty-five days. The book covers the daily drama of the men who are overtaken by the rhythm of the battle, subject to the whim of the command, and many of whom were at the end of their sacrifice, which ...

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June 7, 1944. The Allies have landed in Normandy, where they have set a bridgehead : yet this one is narrow and fragile. The Canadians sprint on to Carpiquet, but their attack is crushed by panzers of the Hitlerjugend Division that have just rejoi...

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La première édition de cet album historique, référence incontestable et pratiquement introuvable, est enfin rééditée, revue, corrigée et augmentée. L'ouvrage offre avec un luxe d'informations, de détails et de photos un panorama exhaustif de l'int...

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"The Guard Attacks!". The Imperial Guard, this glorious phalange, the fruit of the Emperor Napoleon's greatest attention, was almost an army within the "Grande Armée". This study of the Guard's organisation, uniforms and equipment is fully compreh...

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"The Guard Attacks!". The Imperial Guard, this glorious phalange, the fruit of the Emperor Napoleon's greatest attention, was almost an army within the "Grande Armée". This study of the Guard's organisation, uniforms and equipment is fully compreh...

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"On 6 June 1944, on the beaches, as well as inland, with very few exceptions, all orders and reports for all the fighting arms were transmitted by electric radios." ¿ Until now, no encyclopaedia has ever presented so much transmission equipment to...

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This book is the fruit of forty years of contact with military and civilian witnesses, now almost all gone, of research, analyses and descriptions of several thousands of photographs about the Landings and the Battle of Normandy. This book is the ...

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On 16 December 1944, there started the most powerful artillery barrage that the forces of the Third Reich in its death throes were ever to launch on the Western Front after the Normandy landings six months earlier. It smothered the American lines ...

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Books on Runes are not legion in France. Ever since the "Introduction to Runology" by Lucien Musset in 1965, very few works have been published on this subject which is nonetheless very rich. ¿ This new work enables the various opportunities of re...

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Following the failure at Villers-Bocage and a further failure at the end of June 1944 facing Hill 112 at the end of Operation Epsom (the "Battle of the Odon"), Monty relaunched an attack against Hill 112, southwest of Caen, on 10 July 1944. In doi...

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L'infanterie de Ligne subira tous les chocs des dernières années de l'Empire, de la campagne de France à Waterloo, avant de, radicalement, changer de visage en 1815, lors de la seconde Restauration. En effet, momentanément, les régiments d'infante...

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The Provence that is visited so much every year for its sun, its rocky inlets, and its summer fragrances holds another treasure: its ancient past. As a land of passage, great peoples also settled there: firstly, the Ligures and the Celts, then the...

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Cet ouvrage, en deux tomes, permet de présenter les armes et armures du Moyen-Âge à la Renaissance. Le premier tome aborde la première période, du VIe au XIIe siècle ; le second couvre ensuite les périodes du XIIIe au XVIe siècle. L'auteur et les ...

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Cet ouvrage, en deux tomes, permet de présenter les armes et armures du Moyen-Âge à la Renaissance. Le premier tome aborde la première période, du VIe au XIIe siècle ; le second couvre ensuite les périodes du XIIIe au XVIe siècle. L'auteur et les ...

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Gilles de Gouberville (1521-1578) was the perfect representative of the country gentry of the Renaissance, as both Lord of Mesnil-au-Val and Gouberville in Normandy, France, and lieutenant in charge of the waterways and forests of the viscounty of...

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Le «Tiger», seigneur des Panzers, et pourtant mal connu. Un engin, trop rapidement achevé, et pourtant une réputation de chevalier teutonique. Un engin contradictoire qui allie la puissance et la précision d'un canon doté d'une optique de visée pl...

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Après le succès de L'Ordre noir, Allgemeine-SS 1925- 1945, encyclopédie illustrée dédiée au projet de «société totale» qu'envisageait la SS, nous avons souhaité approfondir encore le sujet par ce nouveau volume. Jean-François Pelletier et Georges ...

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