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Henry V: pocket GIANTS

By A. J. Pollard

The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary

By Gavin Bowd

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Alienor d'Aquitaine (Ldp Litterature)

By Pernoud Régine, Pernoud, Regine

Descartes: The Life of Rene Descartes and Its Place in His Times

By Grayling, A. C.

Introduction a la litterature francaise du Moyen Age: Inédit (Ldp Ref.Inedits)

By Zink, Michel

Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

By Seaman, Mark

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

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

By Paranque, Estelle

Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore'

By Weir, Alison

Light of the Night: Last Eighteen Months in the Life of Therese of Lisieux

By Six, Jean Francois, Bowden, John

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Williams, Kate

On Women and Writing

By Woolf, Virginia, Barrett, Michele

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

By Moorehead, Caroline

Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (Eastman Studies in Music)

By Sylvia Kahan

The Story of Napoleon (A Ladybird 'Adventure from History' Book)

By Peach, L.Du Garde, Kenney, John

But You Did Not Come Back

By Loridan-Ivens, Marceline, Smith, Sandra

Proust as Musician

By Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, Puffett, Derrick

Turenne

By Berenger, Jean

God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations

By McDonald, Chine

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

By Winters, Dick, Kingseed, Cole C

Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By Luke Barr

Words (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Sartre, Jean-Paul