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Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science

By Charles Coulston Gillispie

Tom Paine: A Political Life

By John Keane

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

By Richard J. Evans

A Thousand Suns

By Dominique Lapierre

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction

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

The French Revolution

By Christopher Hibbert

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

By William Dalrymple

Napoleon III

By James F. McMillan

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

By Adam Gopnik

Saint Vincent De Paul

By Frances A.M. Forbes

The Sun King

By Nancy Mitford, Stella Tillyard

Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London

By Martin Latham, Joe McLaren

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

By Antony Beevor

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

By Iain McCalman

Napoleon on Napoleon: An Autobiography of the Emperor

By Napoleon I, Somerset De Chair

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

By Ruth Cowen

The Lost Tommies

By Ross Coulthart

Louis XIV

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

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

By Noel Holland, Rosemary Say

We Landed by Moonlight: Secret RAF Landings in France, 1940-44

By Hugh Verity

The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in the 19th Century France

By Joanna Richardson

A Study on Authority: Set 3 (Radical Thinkers)

By Marcuse, Herbert

Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future

By Ruth Davidson

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War

By Beevor, Antony

Napoleon III and Eugenie

By Jasper Ridley

Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

By Pam Ayres

The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

By Evelyne Lever

Richelieu (Profiles In Power)

By Knecht, R.