Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Louis Barthas, Edward M. Strauss, Remy Cazals and Robert Cowley
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The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches...
Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and its Aftermath
Olivier Zunz and Arthur Goldhammer
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Alexis de Tocqueville's Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848...
Bonaparte
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Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This...
Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend
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We don't really consider Henry VIII to have had friends, rather subjects, cronies and dutiful wives...
Commitment: My Autobiography
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The story of one of the most recognisable and successful players in world football. Didier...
Dodging the Devil
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On the 21st August 1914, George Martindale, along with many of his peers, enlisted for the war in...
James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence
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To escape racism in America, James Baldwin fled to Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, in 1970, where he...
Jorge Semprun: The Spaniard Who Survived the Nazis & Conquered Paris
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Spanish by birth, Parisian by adoption, Semprun (1923-2011) was a legendary figure on the front...
Life: Keith Richards
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With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the...
Magellan
Stefan Zweig, Paul Cedar, Paul Eden and O.W. Brierly
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The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese...