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But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

The Battle of the Casbah

By Paul Aussaresses

Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution

By Professor Hugh Brogan

Napoleon and Wellington

By Andrew Roberts

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Napoleon: How He Did It - the Memoirs of Baron Fain, First Secretary of the Emperor's Cabinet

By Proctor Jones

Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

By Marcello Simonetta, Noga Arikha

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Keggie Carew

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

By Philip Short

Critique and Conviction: Conversations with Francois Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By Paul Ricoeur (Fremeaux-Rousseau-Laplace Atty)

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

By Patrick Wilcken

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism

By Robin Blackburn, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, e p thompson, Eduardo Galeano

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

By Sahar Bazzaz

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

By Janet L. Nelson

Decouverte Gallimard: 1939-1945 Le monde en guerre

By ANTHONY KEMP

Le Pari français: Le nouveau plein-emploi

By Albert, Michel

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

By Christine Toomey

Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France

By Matt Rendell

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

By Benjamin Randell Harris

The Somme

By Gerald Gliddon

1915: The Death of Innocence

By Lyn Macdonald