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  • The Paris Commune 1871

    af Robert Tombs ...
    Serier serie Turning Points
    The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took a terrible revenge: thousands died in the bloodbath that followed. The short-lived Commune and its ... Læs mere

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    **A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesThe definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times**In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of ... Læs mere

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  • For the Soul of France

    Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining of subject and writer: a portrait of fin-de-siècle France.He writes about the forces that led up to the twilight years of the ... Læs mere

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  • A Concise History of France

    af Roger Price ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Concise Histories
    This 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 society, the impact of war, competition for power, and the ways in which power has been used. Whilst taking full account of major figures such as Philip Augustus, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Napoleon and de ... Læs mere

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  • France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944

    The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy ... Læs mere

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  • Napoleon: A Concise Biography

    af David A. Bell ...
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  • Massacre

    The Life and Death of the Paris Commune

    af John Merriman ...
    From a pre-eminent Yale historian comes the first popular history of the 1871 Paris Commune, a seminal episode in modern European history.The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century -- before culminating in horrific violence.Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian ... Læs mere

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  • Marianne In Chains

    af Robert Gildea ...
    For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation. The people of France were either bold members of the Resistance or craven collaborators. In this riveting and provocative ... Læs mere

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  • Season of Infamy

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    af Charles Rist ...
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  • A Brief History of France, Revised and Updated

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  • The French Resistance

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  • Jean Paul Marat

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