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

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

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

Decouverte Gallimard: 1939-1945 Le monde en guerre

By ANTHONY KEMP

Le Pari français: Le nouveau plein-emploi

By Albert, Michel

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

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

By Christine Toomey

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

By Matt Rendell

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

By Benjamin Randell Harris

The Somme

By Gerald Gliddon

1915: The Death of Innocence

By Lyn Macdonald

In the Footsteps of Private Lynch

By Will Davies

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

The Somme (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

The Last Tycoons

By William D. Cohan

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

By Ernst Junger (Klett-Cotta), Elliot Neaman, Thomas S. Hansen, Abby J. Hansen

The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France

By Constant J. Mews

Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic

By A. Clinton

L'art de la victoire

By Phil Knight

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

By Bill Buford

Memoirs of Montparnasse

By John Glassco, Michael Gnarowski

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family

By Shelley Emling