French Historical Biographies

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

By Janet L. Nelson

Decouverte Gallimard: 1939-1945 Le monde en guerre

By ANTHONY KEMP

Le Pari français: Le nouveau plein-emploi

By Albert, Michel

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

By Harry Pardoe

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

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

By Christine Toomey

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

By Matt Rendell

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

Une vie

By Simone Veil

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

Memoirs of Montparnasse

By John Glassco, Michael Gnarowski

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

By Bill Buford

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

By PHILIP THODY, Howard Read

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

By Lauren Elkin

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin

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

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

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

By John Guy, Julia Fox

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

By Caroline Moorehead

Grey Eminence

By Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

By Alistair Cole (Cardiff University, UK.)

Home & Dry in Normandy: A Memoir Of Eternal Optimism In Rural France (The Hungry Student)

By East, George

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

The Somme (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

In the Footsteps of Private Lynch

By Will Davies