French TextFor the whole of WWI, the Aisne Department was the scene of ferocious fighting and terrible battles. The most famous, and saddest, of the all was the Chemin des Dames in 1917 which has remained engraved in the memory of the French. The author presents life on the Aisne front by means of over 400 photos, and texts, taken from letters and narratives, most of them unpublished or unknown until now.

LE CHEMIN DES DAMES: L'album souvenir du front de l Aisne (French Edition)

History

Lachaux, Gérard

Military

Histoire and Collections

As we are getting ready to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice, it would be good if we got away from the usual shortcuts: the Battles of the Marne, Verdun, the failure on the Chemin des Dames, the victorious offensives of 1918… It was in 1915 however – the bloodiest year of the war – that almost 400 000 French soldiers were killed. With Artois, Champagne was almost certainly the most murderous battlefield of the front. This book evokes in a most striking manner the twelve months of fighting which the tragic names of Souain, Massige, Tahure, Perthes et Mesnil-les-Hurlus represent. From the bloody winter battle to the great offensive on 25 September to break the deadlock, a host of powerful, mainly unpublished pictures, uniforms, weapons, memorabilia, and written accounts shed new light on this page of our history. The authors have also undertaken to recount the main features with an objective, critical evocation of events. Finally they wanted to pay a tribute to the combatants of that terrible year, 1915, in Champagne.

Batailles de Champagne

Europe

"Waterloo, morne plaine ..." (Waterloo,sad plain). These three words still echo in French people’s minds. Beyond Victor Hugo’s writings,they remember that it was a defeat rather than a battle and also,depending on where your opinions lie, the final act of a fantastic epic or that of a terrible despot. June 1815, the 18th a day which will give Wellington and Blucher immortal glory and sealed the fate of Europe for decades. Authentic proof of the battle has had to be found at its source. Two centuries afterwards, the only valid proof, in our opinion, was those objects which had really been at Waterloo. Strangely enough, with all the books and publications on the subject, nobody ever seemed to have taken an interest in this aspect. And yet their emotional capital still remains intact, from the very famous hat belonging to Napoleon to the uniform button of an obscure infantry fusilier.

Waterloo Relics (Famous Battles)

Bernard, Gilles

Waterloo, the plain where Napoleon’s Empire was dealt its final blow after a titanic fight, is not only a name on the map. La Haye-Sainte, Hougoumont, Plancenoit, are real places where men struggled, suffered and died. In this book, the authors retrace the phases of the famous battle. But moreover, they lead the reader deep into history by showing the artifacts, weapons, uniforms and pieces of equipment that have survived after more than two centuries. From Napoleon’s hat to Wellington’s pad, from a simple uniform button to a rusted bayonet found on the very ground of the battlefield, these fabulous relics help us revisit the day of June 18th 1815. Packed with dozens of color images of uniforms and equipment.

Waterloo Relics

Histoire & Collections

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LE CHEMIN DES DAMES: L'album souvenir du front de l Aisne (French Edition)

Batailles de Champagne

Waterloo Relics (Famous Battles)

Waterloo Relics