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How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815

By Horne, Alistair

Notes from the Cévennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

By Thorpe, Adam

La Belle France: A Short History

By Horne, Sir Alistair

Joan of Arc: A Military Leader

By Devries, Kelly

Georgiana’s World

By Foreman, Amanda

A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

By Helm, Sarah

PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network (Espionage)

By Francis J. Suttill

Poetry of L.S. Senghor

By Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu

Memoirs of Baron De Marbot, Vol. 1 (Napoleonic Library)

By Marcelin, Jean Baptiste Antoine, Butler, A.J.

The Memoirs of Baron De Marbot: v. 2 (Napoleonic library)

By Marcelin, Jean Baptiste Antoine, Butler, A.J.

Les Confettis de l'Empire. Djibouti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, Tahiti, Nlle-Calédonie, Guyane: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane française, La Réunion...

By Guillebaud, Jean-Claude

The Racer: The Inside Story of Life on the Road

By Millar, David

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

By Jewell, Hannah

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India

By Dalrymple, WILLIAM

Who Was Who in the Napoleonic Wars

By Haythornthwaite, Philip

Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture and Power

By Crosland, Margaret

Introducing Rousseau

By Robinson, Dave

Carve Her Name with Pride (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

By Minney, R. J.

My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 (Dover Chess)

By Alekhine, Alexander

Jacques Derrida: A Biography

By Powell, Jason

Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore'

By Weir, Alison

Montaigne (Past Masters Series)

By Burke, Peter

School Blues

By Daniel Pennac

Samuel Beckett (Critical Lives)

By Gibson, Andrew

As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers

By Calder

Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (Renaissance Lives)

By Mary Ann Caws

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

By Anne Sebba

Simone Weil (Fount Christian Thinkers) (Fount Christian Thinkers S.)

By Plant, Stephen

The Trial of Joan of Arc: v. 4 (Visionary Women S.)

By Warner, Marina

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

By Hemingway, Ernest