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

By Seaman, Mark

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

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

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

By Zink, Michel

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

By Grayling, A. C.

Alienor d'Aquitaine (Ldp Litterature)

By Pernoud Régine, Pernoud, Regine

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

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

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

By Gavin Bowd

Henry V: pocket GIANTS

By A. J. Pollard

Berlioz

By Hugh Macdonald

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science

By Charles Coulston Gillispie

Tom Paine: A Political Life

By John Keane

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)

Louis XIV

By Geoffrey Treasure (Formerly Harrow School, London, UK)

Dictionary of British and Irish Authors (York Handbooks S.)

By Kamm, Antony, Jeffares, A. Norman

Richelieu (Profiles In Power)

By Knecht, R.

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

By Evelyne Lever

The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson

Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

By Pam Ayres

Napoleon III and Eugenie

By Jasper Ridley

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War

By Beevor, Antony

Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future

By Ruth Davidson

A Study on Authority: Set 3 (Radical Thinkers)

By Marcuse, Herbert

The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in the 19th Century France

By Joanna Richardson

We Landed by Moonlight: Secret RAF Landings in France, 1940-44

By Hugh Verity

Rosie's War: An Englishwoman's Escape From Occupied France

By Noel Holland, Rosemary Say

The Sun King

By Nancy Mitford, Stella Tillyard

Saint Vincent De Paul

By Frances A.M. Forbes

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

By Adam Gopnik