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On Derrida

By Stephen Hahn

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

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

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

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

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France

By Matt Rendell

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

By Christine Toomey

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

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

By Marcello Simonetta, Noga Arikha

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

By Patrick Wilcken

Critique and Conviction: Conversations with Francois Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By Paul Ricoeur (Fremeaux-Rousseau-Laplace Atty)

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

By Philip Short

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Keggie Carew

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Napoleon and Wellington

By Andrew Roberts