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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.)

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble (Making History (Paperback))

By Roberts, Andrew, Andrew Roberts

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

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

By Roger Osborne

The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay, Last Grand Master of the Temple

By Alain Demurger

Les Confessions

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General

By Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Memoirs of War, 1914-15

By Marc Bloch, Carole Fink, Carole Fink

Maxims

By La Rochefoucauld, Tancock, Leonard, Leonard Tancock

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance

By Jonathan Ree

Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany

By Uwe Schutte

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross