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

By Jewell, Hannah

The Racer: The Inside Story of Life on the Road

By Millar, David

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

By Guillebaud, Jean-Claude

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

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

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

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

Poetry of L.S. Senghor

By Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu

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

By Francis J. Suttill

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

By Helm, Sarah

Georgiana’s World

By Foreman, Amanda

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

By Philip Short

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France

By Matt Rendell

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

By Christine Toomey

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Le Pari français: Le nouveau plein-emploi

By Albert, Michel

Decouverte Gallimard: 1939-1945 Le monde en guerre

By ANTHONY KEMP

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

By Janet L. Nelson

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

By Sahar Bazzaz

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism

By Robin Blackburn, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, e p thompson, Eduardo Galeano

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

By Patrick Wilcken

Critique and Conviction: Conversations with Francois Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By Paul Ricoeur (Fremeaux-Rousseau-Laplace Atty)

The Twins: The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

By Peter Jacobs

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

On Derrida

By Stephen Hahn

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

By Dimbleby, Jonathan