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A remarkable historical account of the celebration and chaos that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with ...
Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign ...
On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had ...
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 ...
The first book to uncover the true story of Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel in occupied Paris during the Second World War. Hal Vaughan reveals: her life ...
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 ...
This book deals with the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of Josephine, a mistress, courtesan and Revolutionary heroine whose energy and ambition has often been ...
A timeless symbol of power and ambition, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) spent decades expanding France's empire, enjoying magnificent success and suffering crushing defeats. Featuring more ...