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No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Sheet 61x52cm printed on both sides containing 2 maps, one of Acre in Mandatory Palestine, the other of Batroun on the north Lebanon coast. The latter is overprinted as cancelled, referring the user to the other side ("Annule / Voir au verso"), thus repurposing the sheet as part of a wartime economy. Good, folded, creased, with small burn hole partially touching the key. Very rare, with Worldcat locating 1 copy to the Hebrew University Mount Scopus Library (OCLC 907822864), with other editions registered for 1945 and 1946 also rare. The place of publication is not stated, but de Gaulle had moved the FFL HQ from London to Algiers in May 1943. The Acre side, printed in 2 colours (blue and black) and labelled in English and French, was compiled from 1:20,000 Palestine 1941, revised July-Oct 1942, and designed and printed by the Geographical Services of the Free French Forces (Service Geographique des F.F.L. - M.O.) in December 1943. The ancient port of Acre, at this time predominantly Muslim, served as the administrative and commercial centre of Acre district. The map shows Acre midway along the Mediterranean coast between El Mazraa (N) and Emek Zevulun (S), with coverage extending inland as far as Qal'at Jidin "Ruined Castle" (NE). Highly detailed, its fort, here labelled "El Manara", was then a British jail for the Zionist underground, among them Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and also Shlomo Ben-Yosef and Dov Gruner both of whom were executed there in 1938 and 1947 respectively. Also labelled are Sidney Smith Barracks where Syria and Britain would sign the Convention of Acre in 1945, the Government Stud Farm, and Farm Labour Camp. Other details include 3 classes of road, motorable tracks, tracks, footpaths, and difficult paths; railways (standard or narrow), mosques, tombs, towers, police posts, cultivation, woods, scrub, orchards, gardens, vineyards, olive groves, fences, enclosures, wireless etc. The cancelled side shows Batroun, Chekia Jedide, and Enfeh on the north Lebanon coast, partially cropped down to the size of the Acre map.

Softcover. Condition: g. 8vo. Unpaginated (28pp). Stapled illustrated wraps as issued. Profusely illustrated with photogravures, some in photomontage of General de Gaulle and his "Council of Defense of the French Empire" during W.W.II. Some scuffing, staining and creasing to wraps. Small chip on top near spine on back wrapper missing. Head and tail of spine chipped. Small area of De Gaulle frontispiece bumped. Wraps in good-, interior in very good condition.

He also updates the General on the safety of a key member of the French resistance, saying he has evaded the SS and livesHenri Giraud commanded the French 9th Army during the Battle of France. In May 1940, he was captured by the Germans, but made a successful escape from captivity in April 1942, after two years of careful planning. From within Vichy France he worked with the Allies in secret, and after Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa by the Allies in November 1942, he assumed command of French troops in Allied-held North Africa. In January 1943, he took part in the Casablanca Conference along with Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Later in the same year, Giraud and de Gaulle became co-presidents of the French Committee of National Liberation, but he lost support and retired in frustration in April 1944.Following Giraud's daring 1942 escape from a German prison, Heinrich Himmler ordered Giraud's assassination, and had seventeen members of his family arrested, including his daughter and her four children. They were held in compulsory residence in a guest house in T?ringen, until Patton's Third Army liberated the town and the family, along with Princess Ruspoli, who had been arrested as part of the resistance (and is thought to have been a spy).In March 1945, as the Allies put the strangle hold on German forces, General Patton's U.S. 3rd Army, in conjunction with the U.S. 7th Army, dealt a devastating blow to the Germans. In five days of battle, from March 18-22, Patton's forces captured over 68,000 Germans.On April 4, 1945, the US 4th Armored Division and a division of Patton's US 3rd Army, came face to face with the horrors of Nazi brutality. The men discovered Ohrdruf, a Nazi labor camp and a subcamp of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Ohrdruf was the first Nazi camp to be liberated by US forces. On April 12, a week after the camp?s liberation, Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Omar Bradley toured the site, led by a prisoner familiar with the camp. Numerous corpses were found scattered around the camp grounds, lying where they were killed prior to the camp?s evacuation. A burned out pyre was discovered with the charred remains of prisoners, proof of the SS?s hurried evacuation and attempt to cover their crimes. Evidence of torture was present, and prisoners demonstrated for the generals various torture methods used by the guards. Patton, a man privy to the violent scenes of war, refused to enter this shed as the sights and smells in the camp had previously caused him to vomit against the side of a building. German citizens from the nearby town of Ohrdruf were forced to view the camp and bury the dead, a practice that was later repeated in other camp liberations. Following the tour, the mayor of Ohrdruf and his wife were discovered to have hung themselves in their home. Ike and Patton ordered German citizens - especially those who were members of the Nazi Party - living near concentration camps to walk through the camps and witness the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand.This was an incredibly eventful time. Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, was the day Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of War in Europe. This contact between the Soviets, advancing from the East, and the Americans, advancing from the West, meant that the two powers had effectively cut Germany in two. Patton would join just a day or so later.Typed letter signed, on his Third United States Army letterhead, April 25, 1945, in proficient but stilted French, liked typed by Patton himself, to Giraud, whom he addresses as "Mon General? "I was pleased to receive your kind letter and rejoice that after so many trials you have finally reunited with your loved ones."It was a great pleasure for me to receive in the General Quarter your sisters in law and Princess Ruspoli, who accompanied them. I admired in them the guts they showed and hope their return voyage has not been too difficult because of present conditions."It will undoubtedly be particularly pleasing to you to learn that Captain Rateau has been able to evade the hands of the SS, despite an injury sustained to the arm. He is presently in treatment in an American hospital from which he will shortly evacuated to France."You have had the kind attention to me to impending arrival of old bottles from Bourgogne. I thank you in advance. We await them with impatience and will drink them, believe me, to your health. I renew, my General, the assurances of my most cordial sentiments and of my faithful friendship.".

ALSs of DeGaulle from during World War II are extremely rare, this being our first everThe Allies? northward advance up the Italian peninsula to Rome was an important part of the plan to create a southern front and draw German troops to Italy to oppose them, even as the landing on D-Day approached. This would also liberate portions of Italy, and make the reclamation of France all the more likely. To bypass the German line in their way, the Allies landed some 50,000 seaborne troops, with 5,000 vehicles, at Anzio, only 33 miles south of Rome, on January 22, 1944. The landing surprised the Germans and met, at first, with very little opposition; but the force at Anzio spent so much time consolidating its position there that the Germans were able, with their reserves, to develop a powerful counteroffensive against it on February 3. The beachhead was thereby reduced to a very shallow dimension, while the German defenses at Monte Cassino held out against a new assault by Mark Clark?s 5th Army.British general Harold Alexander decided to shift most of the 8th Army, now commanded by General Sir Oliver Leese, from the Adriatic flank of the peninsula to the west, where it was to strengthen the 5th Army?s pressure around Monte Cassino. The combined attack, which was started in the night of May 11?12, 1944, succeeded in breaching the German defenses at a number of points between Cassino and the coast. Thanks to this victory, the Americans could push forward up the coast, while the British entered the valley and outflanked Monte Cassino, which fell on May 18. Five days later, the Allies? force at Anzio struck out against the Germans; and by May 26 it had achieved a breakthrough. When the 8th Army?s Canadian Corps penetrated the last German defenses in the Liri Valley, the defenses began to collapse. Concentrating all available strength on his left wing, Alexander pressed up from the south to effect a junction with the troops thrusting northward from Anzio. The Germans in the Alban Hills could not withstand the massive attack. On June 5, 1944, the triumphant Allies entered Rome. The next day, the Allies landed in Normandy on D-Day.Charles de Gaulle was head of the Free French and based in London. To him, the taking of Rome had a three-fold benefit - it would strengthen the Allied grasp in southern Europe, weaken the Germans, and make a liberation of France more possible.DeGaulle must have been elated, and this gave hope to the French. He wrote Alexander to congratulate him. Autograph letter signed during the war, London, start of June 1944, to General Harold Alexander. ?I send you, in my name and the name of the French Armed Forces, my strong and cordial congratulations on your great victory in Rome. I beg you to convey these sentiments also to Generals Clark and Leese.?ALSs of DeGaulle from during World War II are extremely rare, this being our first ever. And with this content, it?s a true treasure.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres ('Free French Naval Forces') were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War. They were commanded by Admiral Emile Muselier. In the wake of the Armistice and the Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle founded the Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres, or FFL), including a naval arm, the 'Free French Naval Forces' (Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL). 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Guy de Villardi comte de Montlaur (9 September, 1918, Biarritz 10 August, 1977, Garches) was a French artist and soldier. His family originates from Montlaur (Hérault), a 10th century castle north of Montpellier in the Languedoc country. His ancestor Bernard II de Montlaur, Lord of Vailhauquès, had fought with Raymond IV of Toulouse in the First Crusade (1096-1099). As a young man Montlaur studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, and painting at the Académie Julian. He worked with Emmanuel Fougerat and Jean Souverbie. In 1938 he was conscripted for military service, and was posted on the German border when war was declared. After the battle of France, he reached England to join the Free French, and his unit - the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos (in which he served as a Sergeant) - was attached to No. 4 Commando of Lord Lovat's 1st Special Service Brigade for the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, landing at Ouistreham. He also took part in the assault on Flushing (Valcheren) on 1 November 1944.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sacred band was a Greek special forces unit formed in 1942 in the Middle East, composed entirely of Greek officers and officer cadets under the command of Col. Christodoulos Tsigantes. It fought alongside the SAS in the Libyan desert and the Aegean, as well as with General Leclerc's Free French Forces in Tunisia. It was disbanded in August 1945, and is the precursor of the modern Greek Special Forces.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The French submarine Curie was a British-built U class submarine, a member of the third group of that class to be built. Laid down as HMS Vox for the Royal Navy she was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces on the day she was commissioned, where she served as Sous-Marin Curie from 1943-46, but retaining her pennant number of P67. During her absence a later long hull U class submarine Pennant number 73 took the name Vox, serving in the Far East during 1945 and being scrapped on 1 May 1946. When P67 returned to the Royal Navy in July 1946 she re-assumed the name Vox, thus replacing her replacement.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ordre de la Libération ( Order of the Liberation ) is a French Order awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II. It is an exceptional honor, the second highest after the Légion d Honneur (Legion of Honour) and only a small number of people and military units have received it, exclusively for deeds accomplished during World War II. A different order, the Médaille de la Résistance, was created and awarded for less distinguished deeds in the Resistance.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Is Paris Burning is a 1966 Franco-American film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance (communist and Gaullist) and the Free French Forces.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul Aussaresses (born 7 November 1918) is a retired French Army general, who fought during World War II, the First Indochina War and Algerian War. His actions during the Algerian War, and later defense of those actions, caused considerable controversy. Aussaresses was a career Army intelligence officer with an excellent military record when he joined the Free French Forces in North Africa during the Second World War. In 1947 he was given command of the 11th Shock Battalion, a commando unit that was part of SDECE, French intelligence.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres ('Free French Naval Forces') were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War. They were commanded by Admiral Emile Muselier. In the wake of the Armistice and the Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle founded the Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres, or FFL), including a naval arm, the 'Free French Naval Forces' (Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL).