Philip Mansel: 5 books
Paris Between Empires
Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Paris between 1814 and 1852 was the capital of Europe, a city of power and pleasure, a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyond the reaches of France. Paris was the stage where the great conflicts of the age, between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, revolution and...
Constantinople
City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family.
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love...
The Eagle in Splendour
Inside the Court of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon's palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history.
Napoleon's military conquests changed the...
Aleppo
The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,
Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.'Â
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by Philip Mansel
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011