France

'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...

Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of...

Julius Caesar's conquests in Gaul in the 50s BC were bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their wake forever transformed the ancient Celtic culture of that country. After...

In early humanist France two debating traditions converge: one literary and vernacular, one intellectual and conducted mainly via Latin epistles. Debate and Dialogue demonstrates how the two fuse in the...

This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony...

In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries....

A new detailed account of the battle of Poitiers in 1356 which saw one of the most sensational episodes of the Hundred Years War: the capture of the French King...

Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...

Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms,...

Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...

Author: Martin MaceFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 211 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914,...

Author: Sharon FarmerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 368 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to...

Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...

Author: Martin MaceFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 211 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914,...

Author: Simon WeirFormat: Spiral bound, 148mm x 210mm, 390g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Discover the best biking routes around Europe.The definitive European motorcycle touring bible, with the best...

Author: Juliet BarkerFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 370g, 528 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2006Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in...

Author: Anna FargherFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 196mm, 256g, 256 pagesPublished: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2020A timeless tale of courage, friendship and fighting for what you believe in, Umbrella Mouse to...

Author: Hanna G. DiedrichsFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 297mm, 700g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022The artist Kubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her...

Author: Embassie SusberryFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker's role in the French Resistance, this is...

Author: Helen GamstFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 310mm, 2460g, 448 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2023This monograph is unusual in bringing the voices from a wide range of people...

Format: Hardback, 270mm x 220mm, 910g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Bernard Plossu has been called 'the most American of French photographers' by his friend and colleague...

Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...

Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 500g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its...

Author: Christophe AvertyFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 330mm, 2000g, 288 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism....

Author: Vincent MeylanFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 310mm, 2120g, 256 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 2023This volume recounts the fascinating story of creative jeweller Fred Samuel and the illustrious jewellery brand he...

Author: David RosenbergFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 300mm, 1220g, 176 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2022Originally from Brittany, Renk-whose real name is Walig Nicolet-grew up in Rennes in a family of...

Author: Vincent MeylanFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 310mm, 2120g, 256 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 2023This volume recounts the fascinating story of creative jeweller Fred Samuel and the illustrious jewellery brand he...

Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...

Author: Anne BonyFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 310mm, 3500g, 560 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Jean-Michel Wilmotte's unique adventure took off in the mid-1970s and continues today, with undisputed relevance. The...

Author: Guillaume PiconFormat: Hardback, 140mm x 225mm, 880g, 224 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 2016Imbued with over eight centuries of history, A Day at Chateau de Fontainebleau offers unique historical insight...

Author: Anne BonyFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 310mm, 3500g, 560 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Jean-Michel Wilmotte's unique adventure took off in the mid-1970s and continues today, with undisputed relevance. The...

Author: Nicolas Liucci-GoutnikovFormat: Paperback, 230mm x 310mm, 1260g, 208 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2021From the caricatures of Honore Daumier, to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, the puns of the...

Author: Fabrice MoireauFormat: Hardback, 282mm x 244mm, 1000g, 96 pagesPublished: Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2018Surrounded by the English Channel to the north, the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic...

Format: Hardback, 244mm x 300mm, 1190g, 128 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2016Jacqueline Roberts makes portraits on glass and aluminum plates using a 150-year-old technique called wet plate collodion. The long exposures...

Author: Fabrice MoireauFormat: Hardback, 278mm x 244mm, 760g, 96 pagesPublished: Les Editions du Pacifique, France, 2023Paris and its gardens is no less beautiful than its streets, squares and palaces, and...

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Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...

Author: Fiona McIntosh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Postwar Paris is alive with optimism but lavender keeper Luc Ravens and his love Lisette remain haunted by the...

Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...

Author: Dominique Loreau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Perfect for fans of Marie Kondo' Publishers Weekly DISCOVER THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF LISTS IN THIS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...

Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...

Author: Stephen Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution and how it could have been avoided, by Stephen Clarke,...

Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 In the Trenches of Hell In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in...

Author: Maurice Leblanc Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. The inspiration for the new Netflix series,Lupin, starring...