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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams

Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson

By Steven E Maffeo, USN (Ret.)

The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

By of Clairvaux St.Bernard, Beverly Kienzle, Christopher Holdsworth, Bruno Scott James

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

By Bill Parris

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By William Fotheringham

Fouche

By S Zweig, Zweig

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

By julian barnes

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

By Frances Osborne

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

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons

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

By Paul Fregosi

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

By Ian Knight

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

By Ruth Cowen

Les Grandes Horizontales

By Virginia Rounding

A Mi-Parcours

By Andre Rousselet

Un pouvoir nomme desir

By Catherine Nay

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

By Susan Ottaway

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

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

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

J'Accuse

By Émile Zola

Napoleon and Josephine: The Improbable Marriage

By Evangeline Bruce

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

By Bakewell, Sarah

The White Rabbit

By Bruce Marshall

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

By Anthony Seldon

Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson

By D. A. Carson