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Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

By Ashdown, Paddy

Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By Luke Barr

God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations

By McDonald, Chine

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

By Winters, Dick, Kingseed, Cole C

Turenne

By Berenger, Jean

Words (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Sartre, Jean-Paul

Return of Martin Guerre

By Davis, Natalie Zemon

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

By Roe, Sue

The King of Nazi Paris: Henri Lafont and the Gangsters of the French Gestapo

By Christopher Othen

The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France

By Harris, Ruth

Jacques Lacan: the French Context

By Marini, Marcelle

Lacan: In Spite Of Everything

By Roudinesco, Elisabeth

Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

By Elisabeth Roudinesco

The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (Phronesis)

By Mouffe, Chantal

Death Of A Princess (Diana Princess of Wales)

By Mccleod, Scott, Sancton, Thomas

Coleridge : Early Visions

By Holmes, Richard

How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815

By Horne, Alistair

Notes from the CĂ©vennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

By Thorpe, Adam

La Belle France: A Short History

By Horne, Sir Alistair

Decouverte Gallimard: Louis XIV, Le Roi De Gloire (DECOUVERTES GALLIMARD)

By Lebrun, Francois

Helene Cixous: Writing the Feminine: Writing the Feminine (Expanded Edition)

By Conley, Verena Andermatt

Montaigne (Past Masters Series)

By Burke, Peter

School Blues

By Daniel Pennac

Samuel Beckett (Critical Lives)

By Gibson, Andrew

As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers

By Calder

Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (Renaissance Lives)

By Mary Ann Caws

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

By Anne Sebba

Jacques Derrida: A Biography

By Powell, Jason

The Man Behind the Iron Mask

By Noone, John

Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Deguignet, Jean-Marie