Europe - France
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The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
$45.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times).
As an international war cor- Author: Shirer, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1050
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0795300336
- Language: English
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartThe Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, cr
- Series: Princeton Classics #28
- Author: Palmer, R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175926
- Language: English
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
$26.99 Add to cartWith his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.
In eighteenth-century France, c
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351807
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes
$17.99 Add to cartTo stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.
Throu… [more below]- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0743453263
- Language: English
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Massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich
$29.95 Add to cartThe massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour
- Author: Lupiano, Vincent Depaul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493073745
- Language: English
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A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
$19.99 Add to cartA “delicious” (Dorie Greenspan), “genial” (Kirkus Reviews), “very cool book about the intersections of food and history” (Michael Pollan)–as featured in the New York Times
“The complex political, his
- Author: H?naut, St?phane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975475
- Language: English
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world
The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1541620178
- Language: English
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Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light
$32.65 Read moreA street-level people’s view of one of the world’s beloved cities, in a stunning debut that blends cutting-edge reporting and sweeping political analysis of a changing Paris
“Working-class Paris is st- Author: Stangler, Cole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977826
- Language: English
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Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light
$26.95 Read moreFollow in the footsteps of history to discover the hidden places, extraordinary people, and captivating stories of Paris.
Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light, Mary Mc
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1538173336
- Language: English
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Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
$22.00 Add to cartAn accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor’s life–from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile–as the world Napo… [more below]
- Author: Broers, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936465X
- Language: English
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
$22.00 Add to cartThe #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America thr… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1416571779
- Language: English
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France: An Adventure History
$21.95 Add to cartBeginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Freq
- Author: Robb, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064692
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$45.00 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324035587
- Language: English
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
$35.00 Add to cartA Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year
“Enthralling.”―Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books “This is a story not just about P?tain but about war and resistance- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0674248899
- Language: English
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”–Orlando Sentinel
The gripping true story of the duel to end all due- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2005
- ISBN10: 0767914171
- Language: English
