France
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A Concise History of France
$35.00 Add to cartThis is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and so… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Price, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107603439
- Language: English
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
$30.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an- Author: Weber, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427344
- Language: English
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
$20.00 Add to cartMax Hastings’s “exceptional” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the famous World War II D-Day landings “[will] stand with that of the best journalists and writers who witnessed it” (The New Y… [more below]
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1982110775
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo
$31.99 Add to cartThe true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French an- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 150404911X
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$24.00 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRA… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671755145
- Language: English
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The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
$27.99 Add to cartCaught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. Brilliantly chronicled here by a master historian, this … [more below]
- Author: Weber, Eugen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0393314790
- Language: English
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Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon’s most powerful weapon–the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines ev
- Author: Elting, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0306807572
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general’s reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his f… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0230606032
- Language: English
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
$30.00 Read moreA French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites
France, t- Author: Ramdani, Nabila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703251
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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The Story of French
$32.00 Add to cartWhy does everything sound better if it’s said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at on
- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341849
- Language: English
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In Love with Paris: Recipes & Stories from the Most Romantic City in the World
$27.99 Add to cartFall in love with Paris, the food, the stories, and the city’s most romantic spots. A celebration of one of the world’s most beautiful cities, In Love with Paris is an irresistible combination of mout… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Anne-Katrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1784884723
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
$16.99 Add to cart“Splendid… Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” –Boston Globe
“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for t
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061998540
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Provence and the Côte d’Azur
$14.99 Read moreImmortalized on canvas by the likes of C?zanne and Van Gogh, Provence and the C?te D’Azur is a region resplendent with Roman ruins, stunning beaches, glamorous towns and beautiful countryside. Your DK… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0241472199
- Language: English
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Living the Château Dream
$28.00 Read moreTHE FOLLOW-UP TO THE MASSIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, A YEAR AT THE CHATEAU!
In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom- Author: Strawbridge, Dick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1399620266
- Language: English
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Café Society: Time Suspended, the Cafés & Bistros of Paris
$49.95 Add to cartThe Parisian café is an integral part of the city’s daily life no matter the weather, the time of day or year, the mood or neighborhood. It is the spirit of the café, the dance of the wait… [more below]
- Author: Osburn, Joanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1954081774
- Language: English
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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
$40.99 Add to cartThe day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198715951
- Language: English
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A History of France
$24.00 Add to cartJohn Julius Norwich–called a “true master of narrative history” by Simon Sebag Montefiore–returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France: a portrai… [more below]
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147771
- Language: English
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The Coming of the French Revolution
$22.95 Add to cartThe classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the or- Series: Princeton Classics #19
- Author: Lefebvre, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168466
- Language: English
