books by subject
French Historical Biographies

Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson

The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

The Making of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

Fouche

Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante

Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War, 1792-1815

With His Face to the Foe: The Life and Death of Louis Napoleon, The Prince Imperial Zululand 1879

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

Les Grandes Horizontales

A Mi-Parcours

Un pouvoir nomme desir

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

J'Accuse

Napoleon and Josephine: The Improbable Marriage

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

The White Rabbit

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
