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A Train in Winterby Caroline Moorehead
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 14.99They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of fifteen who scrawled "V" for victory on the walls of her lycÉe; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped Allied airmen. Strangers to each other, hailing from villages and cities from across France, these brave women were united in hatred and defiance of their Nazi occupiers. Eventually, the Gestapo hunted down 230 of these women and imprisoned them in a fort outside Paris. Separated from home and... more...
Napoleon III and the Second Empireby Roger D. Price
Routledge 1997; US$ 23.95In Napoleon III , Roger Price considers the mid-century crisis which provided Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte with the opportunity to gain elective office as President, and offers a historio graphical review of the ruler and his regime. more...
The Greater Journeyby David McCullough
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 19.99T he G reater J ourney is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor... more...
Third Republic in France 1870-1940by William Fortescue
Routledge 2000; US$ 40.95An essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France from 1870 to 1940. more...
Deconstructing the Nationby Maxim Silverman
Routledge 1992; US$ 220.00Maxim Silverman analyzes the connection between racism and the development of the nation-state in modern France. He raises important questions about the nature of French society and contributes to the European debate on citizenship. more...
French Revolutionby Gwynne Lewis
Routledge 1993; US$ 35.95A short introductory history of the French Revolution which covers the social, economic and cultural, as well as the intellectual and political aspects. more...
Statements in Stoneby Mark Patton
Routledge 1993; US$ 165.00Based on the evidence of recent excavations, and the most up-to-date theoretical perspectives, Statements in Stone is the first account to put the megalithic traditions of Brittany in a social context. more...
Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95Burke supported the American revolution but fought against the French. With his major work Reflections on the Revolution in France, written in 1790, he attacked the revolution and its rationalism and at the same time created a weapon for the counter revolution in England. Burke predicted with uncanny accuracy the Reign of Terror which lay ahead. more...
Fifth French Republicby Philip Thody
Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95This is a study of modern French politics and history, discussing the five presidents from 1959 to the present - looking at similarities, the foreign policies they persued and domestic policies they practised. more...
Richelieu and Mazarinby Geoffrey Treasure
Routledge 1998; US$ 20.95Richelieu and Mazarin compares these two striking, but very different, statesmen and evaluates their careers and achievements in the light of modern research. more...