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Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this extraordinary man who, from modest beginnings on the small ...
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI
"The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI ...
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022
'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator
'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson
'A quirky, amused, erudite ...
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 ...
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind ...
From childhood dreams of joining the British Royal Navy to a dotage spent riding on a seesaw to improve his health, the true story of ...
A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy.
Once described ...
Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the ...
A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian
'Events do not come naked into ...
An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life-from his defeat in Russia and the drama ...
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 ...
A bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice-with ...
The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written-Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom-landed at the ...
The lives of the sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine are the stuff of legend. Her daughters, however, are less well known, and the fascinating personalities ...
New in paperback - In this biography Sara Cockerill has gone back to the primary sources, and the wealth of recent first-rate scholarship, and assessed which ...