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Written with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious purpose: to make us face up to the moral bankruptcy of Napoleon's ...
Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates including Jospehine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic ...
The French call them 'the Dark Years'...This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive ...
An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book ...
Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought
Burke's seminal work was written during the early ...
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundations. With a mixture of ...
No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic ...
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the ...
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face ...
