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This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context.David Bell emphasizes ...
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and ...
The rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata ...
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against ...
Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on ...
'A story resonant in our age . a grand narrative . a book to cherish and recommend.' - Thomas Keneally
'Terrific . an important story deftly told.' - David Williamson ...
Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance ...
Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and ...
Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the ...
