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Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator ...
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller from the award-winning author of The Discovery of France No-one knows a city like the people who live there ...
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936 ...
There had grown up a sort of intimacy between occupant and occupU . . . a peculiar blending of mutual loathing and mutual respect, a pas de deux ...
The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders ...
'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times
Francis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably ...
When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez ...
Georges Lefebvre was one of the most highly-regarded historians of the 20th century - and a key reason for the high reputation he enjoys can be ...
This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the ...
This work is far more than an eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is one of the foremost conservative British political thinkers: in his ...
Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as ...
