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'Majestic, ambitious . . . [Peter Watson] deserves admiration for the grace and agility with which he interlinks the development of a vigorous cultural identity and the seismic ...
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 ...
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 definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback
Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe ...
An important and entertaining revisionist biography of Henrietta Maria (1609-1699) by one of our most respected historians
A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective ...
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 ...
'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 ...
A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction
"The depths ...
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 ...
An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during--and was eventually destroyed by--the French Revolution.
The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri ...
