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In the Footsteps of Private Lynch

By Will Davies

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

The Somme (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

The Last Tycoons

By William D. Cohan

Wine and War

By Donald & Petie Kladstrup

The Search Warrant

By Patrick Modiano

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By Lauren Johnson

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

By Anthony Seldon

Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany

By Uwe Schutte

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

Une vie

By Simone Veil

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

Home & Dry in Normandy: A Memoir Of Eternal Optimism In Rural France (The Hungry Student)

By East, George

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

By Alistair Cole (Cardiff University, UK.)

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

Grey Eminence

By Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

By PHILIP THODY, Howard Read

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

By Bill Buford

Memoirs of Montparnasse

By John Glassco, Michael Gnarowski

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor