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The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Un pouvoir nomme desir

By Catherine Nay

A Mi-Parcours

By Andre Rousselet

Les Grandes Horizontales

By Virginia Rounding

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen

With His Face to the Foe: The Life and Death of Louis Napoleon, The Prince Imperial Zululand 1879

By Ian Knight

Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War, 1792-1815

By Paul Fregosi

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

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons

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

By Frances Osborne

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

By julian barnes

Fouche

By S Zweig, Zweig

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By William Fotheringham

The Making of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment

By Bill Parris

The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

By of Clairvaux St.Bernard, Beverly Kienzle, Christopher Holdsworth, Bruno Scott James

Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson

By Steven E Maffeo, USN (Ret.)

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

The Murder of Napoleon

By Ben Weider

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain

By Julian Jackson

Dear Departed

By Marguerite Yourcenar

In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris

By Livia Manera Sambuy, Todd Portnowitz

The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

By Maurice Cranston, Sanford Lakoff

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme - The First Celebrity Chef

By Ian Kelly

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and France's Greatest Treasure

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

Andree's War: How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis

By Francelle Bradford White

Memoirs of War, 1914-15

By Marc Bloch, Carole Fink, Carole Fink

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross