France category: 4880 books
by Bernard Levin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
With passion and wit, Bernard Levin describes his travels on foot through the beautiful countryside of south-eastern France. He follows in the mighty footsteps of the great Carthaginian enemy of Rome, Hannibal, who made the expedition with an army and elephants nearly two millennia before.
From...
The Last Duel
A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
The gripping, atmospheric true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France: a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight’s beautiful young wife, soon to be a major motion picture.
When Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight, returns from...
The French Intifada
The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab world
To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France—and, indeed, all of Europe—as well as major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali, Andrew...
Algeria
France's Undeclared War
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Terrorism is not a new issue in France, not by any means. The recent attacks which killed 12 editors and cartoonists at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, brings to mind the history of terrorism during the war for Algerian Independence from 1953-1962. In those years France...
The Paris Game
Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government’s flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany.
Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister...
by Alistair Horne
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"A useful and charming introduction to a nation that has oh-so-definitely helped make the modern world what it is... Horne does a service in helping the reading navigate the complexities of French history." —Los Angeles Times
From the aclaimed British historian and author of Seven...
by Alistair Horne
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair Horne, one of the great chroniclers of French history gives us a fresh account of that remarkable time.
Born into poverty on the remote island of Corsica, he rose to prominence in the turbulent...
by General William Francis Patrick Napier K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
A masterful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and played a pivotal role in the end of his domination of Europe.
The author served with distinction in the actions of the Light Division, such as the epic march to Talavera, the battles of Fuentes d’Oñoro,...
The Fall of Paris
The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact – on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. Suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice...
Bad Faith
A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men,...
by Stewar Kent, Nick Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Victoria Cross.
Captured on his first mission, Trotobas led a mass break-out from Mauzac Internment Camp and eventually...
Éminence
Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians,...
by John A. Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Warfare dominated the long reign of the `Sun-king', Louis XIV. For forty years from 1672, France was continuously at war and had one of the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. The campaigns secured little territory, but almost bankrupted the country and the consequences...