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Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis."-Wall Street Journal"Neiberg is one of the...

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Romefor the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for...

An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops paraded through the streets of Paris, marking the...

Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939931986Author Pauline Baer de PerignonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

The first comprehensive history of the decisive Fall Campaign of 1813, which determined control of Central Europe following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia the previous year. Using German, French, British, Russian, Austrian and Swedish sources,...

This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates...

Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a modern metropolis. Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time. There is a unique fusion of past and present in this...

'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands, author of The RatlineRESISTANCE,...

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France - the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922602220Author Joseph De MaistreFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

These reminiscences of a friendship between Graham Greene and the author over two decades offer several original and significant additions to the knowledge of Greene's beliefs, experiences and involvements throughout his long and turbulent life. It is a...

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 of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book...

Blending memoir, travelogue and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and The New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters-a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905375684Author Tracy HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1701g

How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty. Yet somehow much of Europe managed to grow rich long before the diffusion...

This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called 'the new history'...

An Australian Book Review Best Book of the YearOne of France's most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history.Historians have...

An insider's tour of the magnificent seventeenthcentury castle and gardens, conceived by Le Vau, Le Brun, and Le Notre, that inspired the great chateaux of Europe. Vaux-le-Vicomte's rich history began in 1641, when infamous Finance Minister Nicolas...

In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion. On June 14, the German Army tentatively entered the silent and eerily empty French capital. Without one shot being fired in its defence, the...

This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout central Europe, Coalition forces poured over the Rhine River to invade France between late November 1813 and...

Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich's incursion, one group of prominent Paris...

The Dreyfus Affair comprises attempted assassinations, suicides, perjury, forgeries, invective, stunning reversals and abortive coups d'etat, involving the honour and destiny of an individual and of France. It is also a mystery tale that reveals the...

Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did...

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A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels-most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known.It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de...

The battle of the Falaise Pocket, in August 1944, was the turning point in the Normandy campaign. By early August the German Army was in turmoil: while it was managing to hold back the Allies, the defense involved resources that could not be replaced,...

This book is about re-writing the history of cultures from a non-patriarchal perspective, bringing the forgotten matriarchal epoch to light again. It is based on Heide Goettner-Abendroth's pioneering anthropological research on still extant matriarchal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940842721Author John BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MuseyonPublisher MuseyonWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm * 18mm

The wars between 1792 and 1815 saw the making of the modern world, with Britain and Russia the key powers to emerge triumphant from a long period of bitter conflict. In this innovative book, Jeremy Black focuses on the strategic contexts and strategies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959473Author George RudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint SerifPublisher SerifWeight(grams) 370g

Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France's most remarkable kings in the first English-language biography of Henri IV to be published in twenty-five years. An unwelcome heir to the throne, Henri ruled over a kingdom plagued by...

EVERY CANVAS HOLDS A SECRET . . .'GRIPPING' JILL MANSELL'TENSE AND THRILLING' NATASHA LESTER'INTRIGUES AND ENTHRALS' KATE QUINN'A TOUR DE FORCE' GILL PAULPARIS, 1940.Three years ago, talented art restorer Sophie fled to Paris to escape the horrors of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803696935Author Henry BecketFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fascinates the world and attracts millions each year to visit its chateaux and cathedrals, boulevards and vineyards...

Paris has long been the world's most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world's most beautiful city - the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement. The Making of Paris is the story of how Paris evolved from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861511218Author Maurice Graffet NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061768880Author Joseph EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm)...

The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized...