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  • Napoléon

    Edition Complète de " Napoléon - Jacques Bainville ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée.De nos jours, cette biographie de Napoléon est toujours reconnue par l'ensemble des historiens pour sa qualité écrite et le sérieux des sources.L'auteur y traite son sujet sans préjugés.Il va plus loin que la narration, il analyses ... Read more

    $1.65 USD

  • Dawn of the Belle Epoque

    The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends

    A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising—Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?"With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Blitzkrieg

    Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940

    by Lloyd Clark ...
    A “masterly account” of the juggernaut offensive that conquered France—but also marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews).In the spring of 1940, the German forces launched an attack on France that combined superb intelligence, cutting edge strategy, and new technology—the blitzkrieg, or “lightning war.” In just six weeks, it would achieve what their fathers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joseph Fouché: Portrait of a Politician

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Joseph Fouché: Portrait of a Politician by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 89,000 words and three illustrations)This Plunkett Lake Press eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne (1812-1813)

    Considered by the majority of commentators to be the quintessential personal narrative of Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia. The book charts the progress of the Grande Armée toward it’s apogee at the occupation of Moscow, followed by the great fire of Moscow and the looting of the city to the terrible retreat. During the retreat the full horror of the hunger, privation are vividly ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of the Veil

    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

    by Mark Braude ...
    **One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022One of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2022One of Art News's Art Books They Couldn’t Put Down in 2022A dazzling portrait of Paris’s forgotten artist and cabaret star, whose incandescent life asks us to see the history of modern art in new ways.**In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The French Revolution: A History in Documents

    Edited by Dr Micah Alpaugh ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Sourcebooks
    The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis to create a moment of new political possibilities unlike any the world had previously seen. In so ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Marie Antoinette

    The Portrait of an Average Woman

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 186,000 words, 14 illustrations)Originally published in 1932 and for decades since one of Stefan Zweig’s most popular biographies, this “portrait of an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Swann's Way - In Search of Lost Time Volume #1

    In Search of Lost Time (Sunday Classic)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    Swann's Way is the first volume.In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How Paris Became Paris

    The Invention of the Modern City

    by Joan DeJean ...
    "This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New YorkerAt the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946

    A Source Reader

    Series series Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
    Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumCombining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully curated selection of primary sources together with basic background information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life during the Holocaust. Many available for the first time in English ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Napoleon and de Gaulle

    Heroes and History

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    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 taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Recollections of Rifleman Harris

    Recollections of Rifleman Harris is the story of Benjamin Randell Harris, a British soldier who fought in the 95th Regiment of Foot during the Napoleonic Wars. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Liberation of Paris

    How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light

    “The end of the city’s darkest hour” and the “birth of modern France” in a “brisk new recounting” that is “terse, authoritative, unsentimental” (Charles Trueheart, The Washington Post).Award-winning historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • French Wine

    A History

    by Rod Phillips ...
    "A fascinating book that belongs on every wine lover’s bookshelf."—The Wine Economist"It’s a book to read for its unstoppable torrent of fascinating and often surprising details."—Andrew Jefford, DecanterFor centuries, wine has been associated with France more than with any other country. France remains one of the world’s leading wine producers by volume and enjoys unrivaled cultural recognition ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

    by Graham Robb ...
    The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Rose of Martinique

    A Life of Napoleon's Josephine

    by Andrea Stuart ...
    The acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, the Caribbean-born Creole who became the first wife of Napoleon and Empress of France.One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family’s sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole—sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness.Rescued from near starvation, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waterloo

    The Aftermath

    by Paul O'Keeffe ...
    **The consequences of Napoleon’s most famous defeat are explored in this “**highly readable, richly anecdotal retelling of the battle’s devastating results” (Kirkus).In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks, and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Waffen-SS in Normandy

    July 1944, Operations Goodwood and Cobra

    Series series Casemate Illustrated
    An examination of how the Waffen-SS fared in Normandy in June 1944 and whether they deserve their reputation of being the ultimate fighting soldiers.One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then deploy in a cramped bridgehead until the American breakthrough of late ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life on a Mediaeval Barony

    A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century

    Example in this ebook   Chapter I: The Fief of St. Aliquis: Its History and Denizens. In the duchy of Quelqueparte there lay, in the later days of the great King Philip Augustus, the barony of St. Aliquis. Perhaps you may have trouble in finding any such places upon the maps of Mediæval France. In that case, I must tell you that they did not lie so far from Burgundy, Champagne, and Blois that the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Where Did They Burn The Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar?-The Royal Crypts-Volume Two-A Walking Tour of Medieval Paris

    by Stew Ross ...
    Begin your series of five walking tours on the Île de la Cité. Your stops will concentrate on the west side of the island-the original site of the medieval palace. You’ll visit the only remaining portions of the palace. Upstairs in the second level of the Sainte-Chapelle (the Holy Chapel) is the most spectacular display of stained glass windows.After finishing Walk Two, you will have visited one ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1000 Years of Annoying the French

    The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller.Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunately—after years of humorously chronicling the vast cultural gap between the two countries—author Stephen Clarke is perfectly positioned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

    by Holly Tucker ...
    "An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling." —The New YorkerIn the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the king’s court at Versailles. Based on court ... Read more

    $12.99 USD