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
Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson
Note-books of Captain Coignet: Soldier of the Empire, 1799-1816
Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
