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  • Marshal Petainby Richard Griffiths

    Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 21.86

    Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, 'the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century.' A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become French Deputy Prime Minister his political abilities... more...

  • Property Is Theft!by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; Iain McKay

    AK Press 2011; US$ 18.99

    The definitive English-language collection by the first man to call himself an anarchist. more...

  • Memoirs of Montparnasseby John Glassco; Louis Begley

    New York Review Books 2012; US$ 15.95

    Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained... more...

  • French Foreign Legion 1872-1914by Martin Windrow; Mike Chappell

    Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95

    This volume covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. Legion battalions fought in the deserts and mountains of southern Algeria and Morocco, as well as in the jungles of North Vietnam, West Africa and Madagascar. Their varied uniforms... more...

  • Parisiansby Graham Robb

    Pan Macmillan 2010; US$ 9.58

    No-one knows a city like the people who live there ? so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Parisians introduces us to some of those inhabitants: we meet spies, soldiers, scientists and alchemists; police commissioners, photographers and philosophers; adulterers,... more...

  • Friend or Foeby Alistair Horne

    Orion 2012; US$ 24.45

    Britain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. more...

  • Friend or Foeby Alistair Horne

    Orion 2012; Not Available

    Britain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. more...

  • DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOTSOLDIERby Jakob Walter

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 9.99

    A grunt?s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front? the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon?s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813.   When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea... more...

  • French Warship Crews 1789-1805by Terry Crowdy; Steve Noon

    Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 14.95

    This book gives a detailed and authentic account of the life and experiences of French warship crews from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) up to Trafalgar. It describes the recruitment and composition of crews, the different duties performed and the living conditions they had to endure at sea. Their experiences of fighting the British are... more...

  • The Emperor's Last Islandby Julia Blackburn

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00

    In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helenad surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures."--Los Angeles Times Book Review. more...