A Concise History of France |
 Roger Price
ISBN: 052136809X
This book provides a clear and well-informed guide to French history from the emergence of a strong state in the Ile-de-France in the early middle ages, to the trente glorieuses following the Second World War and the Mitterrand presidency. As such, it...(read more) |
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A History of French Passions Vol 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics |
Theodore Zeldin
ISBN: 0198221770
This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond a recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities. This first part...(read more) |
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A History of French Passions Vol 2: Intellect, Taste, and Anxiety |
Theodore Zeldin
ISBN: 0198221789
This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond a recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities. The first part...(read more) |
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Between France and Germany: Jews of Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918 |
Vicki Caron
ISBN: 0804714436
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Citizens |
 Simon Schama
ISBN: 0140172068
From the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches", this is a history of the French Revolution. At the heart of this account is the story of the transformation of "subjects" to "citizens". The author aims to show a France infatuated with novelty and...(read more) |
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Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace, 1830-1945 |
 David Allen Harvey
ISBN: 0875802710
For more than a century, Alsace was the most contested region in western Europe, This analysis of working-class politics and nationality explains the successive attempts of French and German authorities to impose one national identity on the region and...(read more) |
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France and Britain, 1900-1940 |
P. M. H. Bell
ISBN: 0582229537
This is the first of a two-volume study which analyzes the complex relationship between Britain and France in the 20th century. This volume runs from the period of intense imperial rivalry at the turn of the century, to the fall of France to Germany....(read more) |
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France in Modern Times |
 Gordon Wright
ISBN: 0393967050
This text charts the political history of France from the 18th century to the present, interspersing narrative with chapters on society, the economy, culture and historiography. This edition reflects recent research on the French Revolution, taking into...(read more) |
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Learning to Be Loyal: Primary Schooling as Nation Building in Alsace and Lorraine, 1850-1940 |
 Stephen L. Harp
ISBN: 0875802346
Explores the role of primary education in nation building in a region that moved back and forth between French and German control four times between 1871 and 1945, demonstrating that both countries used similar methods involving the teaching of...(read more) |
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Lost Battalions: Going for Broke in the Vosges, October-November, 1944 |
 Franz Steidl
ISBN: 0891416226
Details the struggles of both American and German battalions who set out to rescue sister battalions which were each trapped behind enemy lines during fighting in the Vosges Mountains of France. |
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Luminous Debris |
 Gustaf Sobin
ISBN: 0520222458
This text explores the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc, drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, focusing on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each. A Bronze Age earring or the rippling wave pattern...(read more) |
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratroopers Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich |
 David Kenyon Webster, Stephen E. Ambrose (Introduction)
ISBN: 0385336497
This memoir was written soon after the author's stint as a paratrooper in World War II, using his letters home and recollections that he documented following his discharge. It details places and events, especially D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich. |
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Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000 |
 Hans J. Hummer
ISBN: 0521854415
How exactly did political power operate in early medieval Europe? Taking Alsace as his focus, Hans Hummer offers an intriguing new case study on localised and centralised power and the relationship between the two from c. 600 1000. Providing a panoramic...(read more) |
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Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War |
 Aminia M. Brueggemann
ISBN: 0791464377
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Scents of Time |
 Edwin Morris
ISBN: 3791322176
This book reveals perfume's widespread and permanent place in our culture of the senses, through illustrations, artefacts and paintings dating from 2000 BCE. The reader is guided through the ages through the bronze vessels of Babylon, kohl containers...(read more) |
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of France |
 Colin Jones
ISBN: 0521669928
Combining illustration with text, this is a political and social history of France from earliest times to the present day. It emphasizes social, economic and cultural issues throughout. The diversity of the French heritage - scientific and artistic,...(read more) |
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The Final Crisis: Combat in Northern Alsace, January 1945 |
 Richard Engler
ISBN: 0966638913
This title presents an account and analysis of the fierce combat in Lower Alsace during Operation "Nordwind" in January, 1945, one of the last major German counterattacks during the war. It recounts combat from squad and platoon-levels upward,...(read more) |
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The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916 |
 Alistair Horne
ISBN: 0140170413
Verdun was the battle which lasted ten months; the battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of 15 miles; the battle whose aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death on the battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now...(read more) |
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Twentieth-Century France |
 James F. McMillan
ISBN: 0340522399
This is a wide-ranging survey of 20th-century French history. Originally published under the title "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this book has been revised and extended to bring the account up to the present day. Additional material has been added which looks...(read more) |
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When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October |
 Keith E. Bonn
ISBN: 0345476115
October 1944: Allied forces are poised for the plunge into Germany itself. The Wehrmacht is reeling, but as the German Army's lines are broken, defenses in the rugged Vosges Mountains of Northeast France stiffen. Critics of American tactics and training...(read more) |
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