794円 Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of ...

2,122円 In 1995, Adam Gopnik and his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to experience for himself the spirit and romance that has so captivated American writers throughout the T...

267円  Ce soir-là, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que déjà le relais berbère d’Azrou aurait dû m’apparaître, je remettais, en compagnie de mon chauffeur plus ou moins espagnol, une roue de secours à ma voiture en panne. Depuis trois semai...

1,537円 The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. Who were they? What made them run? And what happened once they made the decision to flee? During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 40,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada, Austral...

2,917円 A leading expert examines one of Napoleon's most decisive but least analysed victories In early July 1809 Napoleon crossed the Danube with 187,000 men to confront the Austrian Archduke Charles and an army of 145,000 men. The fighting that followed dwarfed in intensity and scale any previous Napol...

1,192円 Britain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary of the Entente Cordiale A century after the Entente Cordiale ended centuries of war and enmity between France and Britain, and two hundred years after the coronation of Britain's deadly enemy, Napoleo...

2,917円 Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42. Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But th...

1,738円 An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. When the German army occupied Paris in the early hours of 14 June 1940, a large American community awaited them. Although the US Ambassador had advised those w...

2,647円 The Anglo-Saxon view of Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) is based on John Maynard Keynes's misjudged caricature, that he had imposed a treaty that was harsh and oppressive of Germany. French critics' view, however, is that he had been too lenient, and left Germany in a position to challenge the tre...

492円 In this amazing eBook you will find more than one hundred facts about Paris. What are the top landmarks, museums and galleries to visit? What is the history of the Eiffel Tower? Separated into sections covering these topics and more (such as its history, its culture and recommendations for some o...

267円 Quand je donnai, sous les auspices de la Société bibliographique, une nouvelle édition des Mémoires de Jacques de Chastenet, seigneur de Puységur (Paris, 1883, 2 vol. grand in-18 jésus), j’eus à m’occuper (tome 1, pages 58, 59) de l’admirable condu...

267円 SI je vous disais que je me suis trouvé en face de lui, jadis, sur le territoire même de la France ! Élisabeth regarda Paul Delroze avec l’expression de tendresse d’une jeune mariée pour qui le moindre mot de celui qu’elle aime est un sujet d’émerveillement. ー Vous avez vu Guillaume II en France...