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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 ...
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 ...
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 prism into the most controversial period of twentieth-century French history, from one of the great contemporary historians of France
Few images more shocked 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review
We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and ...
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 ...
A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France. Last Times, Victor Serge's epic novel of the ...
The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor ...
