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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.

WORDS. Translated by Irene Clephane. Penguin Books. 1986.

By Sartre, Jean-Paul

La Belle France: A Short History

By Horne, Sir Alistair

Notes from the Cévennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

By Thorpe, Adam

How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815

By Horne, Alistair

Coleridge : Early Visions

By Holmes, Richard

Death Of A Princess (Diana Princess of Wales)

By Mccleod, Scott, Sancton, Thomas

The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (Phronesis)

By Mouffe, Chantal

Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

By Elisabeth Roudinesco

Lacan: In Spite Of Everything

By Roudinesco, Elisabeth

Jacques Lacan: the French Context

By Marini, Marcelle

The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France

By Harris, Ruth

The King of Nazi Paris: Henri Lafont and the Gangsters of the French Gestapo

By Christopher Othen

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

By Roe, Sue

Return of Martin Guerre

By Davis, Natalie Zemon

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

By Paranque, Estelle

Proust as Musician

By Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, Puffett, Derrick

But You Did Not Come Back

By Loridan-Ivens, Marceline, Smith, Sandra