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The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis

By Matthew Cobb

The Republican Line: Caricature and French Republican Identity, 1830-52

By Laura O'Brien

Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

By Martin Thomas (Professor of Imperial History, University of Exeter)

Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid

By Robert Lyman

An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

By Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi, Daniel L. Newman

Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute

By Wendy James, N. J. Allen

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

By Christopher Hill

Hunting Evil

By Guy Walters

La France a-t-elle aboli l'esclavage ? Guadeloupe-Martinique-Guyane, 1830-1935

By Schmidt, Nelly

Saint Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter

By John V. Tolan (, Professor of History, University of Nantes)

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

By Philip Short

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization

By Tony Chafer

A Savage War Of Peace

By Alistair Horne

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Keggie Carew

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

By Marcello Simonetta, Noga Arikha

The Great Upheaval: America And The Birth Of The Modern World

By Jay Winik

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

By Proctor Jones

Terror in the French Revolution

By Hugh Gough

A Political Romance: Leon Gambetta, Leonie Leon and the Making of the French Republic, 1872-82

By S. Foley, C. Sowerwine

War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture

By Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann, Etienne Francois

Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France

By R. Aldrich

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Refuge in the Land of Liberty: France and its Refugees, from the Revolution to the End of Asylum, 1787-1939

By Greg Burgess

Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs

By Tim Lynch, Mirrorpix

When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-44

By Ronald Rosbottom

Historie De l'Algerie Colonial

By Benhamin Stora

The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society

By Martin Thomas

Verdict on Vichy: Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regime

By Michael Curtis (Reader in Pharmacology King's College London UK)

An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914

By J. P. Daughton (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University)

Paris in the Third Reich

By David Pryce-Jones