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With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set ...
'Like Crecy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.' BERNARD CORNWELL, bestselling author of The ...
How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the ...
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are ...
A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens.
'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor
'Restores two half-forgotten and ...
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and ...
Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy government-a fateful decision that nearly destroyed the Anglo-American alliance ...
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 ...
Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few ...
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 ...
The gripping, atmospheric true story of the duel to end all duels- a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating ...
The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty--four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers ...
A vital examination of one of the most despicable Second World War massacres and a great unsolved war crime that does not shy away from ...
Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Arguably he was also the most significant king that France ever had.
A contemporary of Henry ...
The first full biography of the great Sun King of France for twenty years and winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize
Louis XIV dominated ...