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An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution and how it could have been avoided, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying ...
A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of man and ...
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind ...
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen
"Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning ...
'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
In six weeks in 1940, France was over-run by German troops and surrendered. One junior ...
Acclaimed upon its hardcover publication as a "culinary treat for Francophiles" (Publishers Weekly), A Bite-Sized History of France is a thoroughly original book that explores ...
The first full biography of the great Sun King of France for twenty years, including many recent discoveries and seeing Louis XIV in a broader ...
The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders ...
Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as ...
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic ...
'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian
'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times
A captivating portrait of those who ...
This stylish and incisive narrative presents readers with a fresh perspective on one of the most fascinating kings in European history. Louis XIV's story ...
'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect ...
Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling ...
