books by subject
French Historical Biographies

But You Did Not Come Back

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

The Battle of the Casbah

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

Napoleon and Wellington

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

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

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

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

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

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

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

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

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

Decouverte Gallimard: 1939-1945 Le monde en guerre

Le Pari français: Le nouveau plein-emploi

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

Empress Josephine

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

A Foreign Field

Somme Mud

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

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

Freud's Women

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

The Somme
