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The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

By Anthony Seldon

The White Rabbit

By Bruce Marshall

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Napoleon and Josephine: The Improbable Marriage

By Evangeline Bruce

J'Accuse

By Émile Zola

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

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

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

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

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

By Roberts, Andrew, Andrew Roberts

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

By Jonathan Ree

Maxims

By La Rochefoucauld, Tancock, Leonard, Leonard Tancock

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross

Les Confessions

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Memoirs of War, 1914-15

By Marc Bloch, Carole Fink, Carole Fink

The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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

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

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams