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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

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

By PHILIP THODY, Howard Read

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

By Bill Buford

Memoirs of Montparnasse

By John Glassco, Michael Gnarowski

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

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

L'art de la victoire

By Phil Knight

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

By A. Clinton

The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France

By Constant J. Mews

A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

By Ernst Junger (Klett-Cotta), Elliot Neaman, Thomas S. Hansen, Abby J. Hansen

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family

By Shelley Emling

Witnesses, Neighbors, and Community in Late Medieval Marseille

By Susan Alice McDonough

Chanel's Riviera

By Anne de Courcy

Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story

By Michael Allin

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

By Caroline Moorehead

The Maid of Orleans

By Sven Stolpe

The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

By Gwen Strauss

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

By Emmanuel Carrere

The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles

By Nancy Mitford

Curie

By Sarah Dry, Sabine Seifert

The Murder of Napoleon

By Ben Weider

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain

By Julian Jackson

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

Fouche

By S Zweig, Zweig

Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

By julian barnes

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By William Fotheringham

Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons