Cultural Region/French
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Fire Mission!: The Siege at Mortain, Normandy, August 1944
$17.95 Add to cartIn August 1944, a few hundred men defended a hill near Mortain, France, against a massive German counterattack. For most of the six days and nights of fighting, the Americans were cut off from supply … [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1572493135
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great Wa
$37.43 Add to cartMcAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos set their respective circles on fire with their revolutionary visions and discoveries. But all was not w… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1442276134
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings
$89.95 Add to cartJonathan Sumption’s Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called “one of the great historical works of our time.”
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destructi- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Sumption, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0812223888
- Language: English
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
$34.95 Add to cartBorn into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spe
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129623
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
$20.99 Add to cartOne of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a l
- Author: Gutman, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0395901308
- Language: English
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Conduct of War PB
$21.99 Add to cartThe Conduct of War is the study of the way in which political and economical changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and the aims of war, and its theme is that war which i… [more below]
- Series: Quality Paperbacks Series
- Author: Fuller, J. F. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306804670
- Language: English
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
$26.00 Add to cartAn insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innoc- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Samuels, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300254008
- Language: English
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Antigone: A New Translation
$12.99 Add to cartThe most celebrated plays of ancient Athens–Sophocles’s seven surviving works–in vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays Har
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132121
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
$46.58 Add to cartA compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless.- Series: New Forum Books #70
- Author: Storey, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211124
- Language: English
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Paris: A Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartThis New York Times bestseller is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris or with Paris.
This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris. PARIS: A LOV- Author: Marton, Kati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1451691556
- Language: English
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Learn Canadian French: 2nd Edition
$22.47 Add to cartLearn Canadian French and speak with a beautiful aged accent of colonial France that has stood the test of time, exceeding 400 years in North America. This book provides countless expressions, idioms,… [more below]
- Author: L?vesque, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 136637357X
- Language: English
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Paris Picnic Club: More Than 100 Recipes to Savor and Share
$30.00 Read moreEvery Friday for a year, Shaheen Peerbhai and Jennie Levitt made a delicious picnic-style meal for their friends. This small tradition soon grew into a clandestine pop-up restaurant, serving much-anti… [more below]
- Author: Peerbhai, Shaheen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454951680
- Language: English
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Selected Writings of Blaise Cendrars
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of the best of Blaise Cendrars poetry. Includes three short prose pieces.
- Author: Cendrars, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 16 1966
- ISBN10: 0811218880
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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Agent Garbo
$15.95 Add to cartThe little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler’s Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double age… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0544035011
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and self-discovery by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor
Sue Monk Kid- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117971
- Language: English
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Say It Right in French, Third Edition
$16.00 Add to cartSpeak a new language with confidence with this accessible guide to correct pronunciation
Fear of mispronunciation prevents many people from daring to speak a new language. Don’t let that fear hold you… [more below]- Author: Epls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1260116328
- Language: English
