France
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
$22.99 Add to cartCalled “fast-paced” (Kirkus Reviews) and “highly engrossing” (Publishers Weekly), this is the behind-the-scenes story of the world’s most famous palace.
The story of Versailles is one of high historic- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603460
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries, they provided the stimulu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199590966
- Language: English
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
The epic true story of Dunkirk–now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance
In 1940, the Al
- Author: Levine, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 006274030X
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
$19.99 Add to cart“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messi
- Series: Resistance Quartet #2
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062202480
- Language: English
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Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love
$16.99 Add to cartFollowing his hilarious introduction to Paris in French Like Moi, Midwesterner Scott Dominic Carpenter returns to the scene of the crime with more tales of intrigue.
This time, though, the story start- Author: Carpenter, Scott Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1609522125
- Language: English
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The Propagandist
$17.95 Add to cart“Shows why historical fiction matters … This haunting tale stayed with me.”–Cara Black, author of Three Hours in Paris
In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized
- Author: Desprairies, C?cile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1954404263
- Language: English
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100 French Short Stories for Beginners Learn French with Stories Including Audiobook: (Easy French Edition Foreign Language Bilingual Book 1)
$15.99 Add to cartBrush up your French, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with these 100 entertaining and culturally interesting French short stories!
How is it possible to learn French easily and effort
- Author: Stahl, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1732438161
- Language: English
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Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
$16.95 Add to cartThirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world’s most seductive city.
“Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there.” –Na- Author: Rowlands, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1565129539
- Language: English
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French Verbs Made Easy Workbook: Learn Verbs and Conjugations The Easy Way
$15.69 Add to cartAre you struggling with the verbs and conjugations of the French language?
Spoken by close to 300 million people around the world and 20% of Europe, the French language can be tricky to learn if you’re
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1951949722
- Language: English
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Classic French Recipes
$59.95 Add to cart‘An excellent, encouraging introduction to French home cooking by an author who combines the best culinary qualities of Gallic versions of Irma Rombauer and Fannie Farmer, with just a dash of Ratatoui
- Author: Mathiot, Ginette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1838666796
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Marshals
$18.95 Add to cartThe masterful saga of Bonaparte’s twenty-six military Marshals by Napoleonic authority Delderfield is set against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon’s rise and his conquests, and… [more below]
- Author: Delderfield, Ronald Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0815412134
- Language: English
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The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
$19.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de’ Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestu… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0316409669
- Language: English
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.
On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0316224510
- Language: English
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Property Is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader
$34.00 Add to cart“An indispensable source book for anyone interested in Proudhon’s ideas and the origins of the socialist and anarchist movements in nineteenth-century Europe.”–Robert Graham, editor of Anarchism: A D
- Author: Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 670
- Publish Date: April 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1849350248
- Language: English
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new pr… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 161902179X
- Language: English
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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
$22.99 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
