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Geoffrey Ellis Offers An Up-to-date Synthesis Of Recent Research Into The Aims And Effects Of Napoleonic Rule In France And In Conquered Europe. Thoroughly ...

An account of upper class French society through the centuries showing how its setting - the chateaux and manoirs of the French countryside evolved in conce...

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone again...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered i...

A Sunday Times Bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice [putin's People] Will Surely Now Become The Definitive Account Of The Rise Of Putin...

a Major Work Of History That For The First Time Reveals The Violence And Terror At The Heart Of Britain's Civilizing Mission In Kenya as Part Of The Allie...

The Mayor Of London And Former Spectator Editor Challenges Popular Misconceptions To Assess Churchill's Enduring Influence On The World, Discussing The Many...

The Small Church Of Mary Magdalene In The Remote Village Of Rennes-le-chateau In Southern France May Well Hold The Key To The Proof Of Mary Magdalene's Marr...

Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned t...

Biography of Marie Antoinette. The Washington Post - Suzanne D'Amato Weber's book is an ode to the art of dressmaking at its most fantastic, a heady, gorg...

The Business Of L'oreal Is Beauty. It Is The World's Largest Cosmetics Firm. This Startling Book Shows The Other Face Of Beauty. It Is The Story Of How This...

the Closest Thing To Total War Before World War One, The Seven Years' War Was Fought In North America, Europe, The Caribbean And India With Major Conseque...

About the Author Shelley Puhak is a critically acclaimed poet and writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, Teen Vogue, Virgi...

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre and Pierre-Francois-Andre Mechain set out from Paris in 1792 with a common goal. headed in opposite directions, they hoped to...

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The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure • Demonstrates that Catharism is not simply a heretical Christian cul...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade ...

Written by one of Britain’s best known and most respected military historians, this is the essential account of the Napoleonic campaigns. Now in a new con...

John Tincey ; Illustrated By Graham Turner. Includes Index. Bibliography.Categories: HistoryWorld

For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that ...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

Pomona Britannica, originally published in 1812, celebrated the richness of food variations cultivated in England, with superb illustrations by George Brock...