French Historical Biographies

Tom Paine: A Political Life

By John Keane

Rosie's War: An Englishwoman's Escape From Occupied France

By Noel Holland, Rosemary Say

Louis XIV

By Geoffrey Treasure (Formerly Harrow School, London, UK)

The Lost Tommies

By Ross Coulthart

A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton

By Ruth Cowen

Napoleon on Napoleon: An Autobiography of the Emperor

By Napoleon I, Somerset De Chair

The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

By Iain McCalman

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By Antony Beevor

Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London

By Martin Latham, Joe McLaren

The Sun King

By Nancy Mitford, Stella Tillyard

Saint Vincent De Paul

By Frances A.M. Forbes

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

By Adam Gopnik

Napoleon III

By James F. McMillan

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India

By William Dalrymple

The French Revolution

By Christopher Hibbert

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction

By Simon Glendinning (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science)

A Thousand Suns

By Dominique Lapierre

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

By Richard J. Evans

Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

The Racer: The Inside Story of Life on the Road

By Millar, David

Les Confettis de l'Empire. Djibouti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, Tahiti, Nlle-Calédonie, Guyane: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane française, La Réunion...

By Guillebaud, Jean-Claude

The Memoirs of Baron De Marbot: v. 2 (Napoleonic library)

By Marcelin, Jean Baptiste Antoine, Butler, A.J.

Memoirs of Baron De Marbot, Vol. 1 (Napoleonic Library)

By Marcelin, Jean Baptiste Antoine, Butler, A.J.

Poetry of L.S. Senghor

By Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu

PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network (Espionage)

By Francis J. Suttill

A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

By Helm, Sarah

Georgiana’s World

By Foreman, Amanda

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

By Seaman, Mark

Berlioz

By Hugh Macdonald