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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

The Battle of the Casbah

By Paul Aussaresses

Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution

By Professor Hugh Brogan

Napoleon and Wellington

By Andrew Roberts

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Napoleon: How He Did It - the Memoirs of Baron Fain, First Secretary of the Emperor's Cabinet

By Proctor Jones

Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

By Marcello Simonetta, Noga Arikha

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

Home & Dry in Normandy: A Memoir Of Eternal Optimism In Rural France (The Hungry Student)

By East, George

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

Une vie

By Simone Veil

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany

By Uwe Schutte

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

By Anthony Seldon

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By Lauren Johnson

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

The Search Warrant

By Patrick Modiano

Wine and War

By Donald & Petie Kladstrup

The Last Tycoons

By William D. Cohan

The Somme (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

In the Footsteps of Private Lynch

By Will Davies

1915: The Death of Innocence

By Lyn Macdonald

The Somme

By Gerald Gliddon

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

By Benjamin Randell Harris

Decouverte Gallimard: 1939-1945 Le monde en guerre

By ANTHONY KEMP

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

By Sahar Bazzaz

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

By Janet L. Nelson

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism

By Robin Blackburn, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, e p thompson, Eduardo Galeano