French Historical Biographies

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

By Richard J. Evans

A Thousand Suns

By Dominique Lapierre

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction

By Simon Glendinning (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science)

The French Revolution

By Christopher Hibbert

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

By William Dalrymple

Napoleon III

By James F. McMillan

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

By Adam Gopnik

Saint Vincent De Paul

By Frances A.M. Forbes

The Sun King

By Nancy Mitford, Stella Tillyard

Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London

By Martin Latham, Joe McLaren

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By Antony Beevor

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

By Iain McCalman

Napoleon on Napoleon: An Autobiography of the Emperor

By Napoleon I, Somerset De Chair

A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton

By Ruth Cowen

The Lost Tommies

By Ross Coulthart

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

By PHILIP THODY, Howard Read

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

By Alistair Cole (Cardiff University, UK.)

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

Grey Eminence

By Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic

By A. Clinton

L'art de la victoire

By Phil Knight

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

Memoirs of Montparnasse

By John Glassco, Michael Gnarowski