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Bredin, Jean-Denis

The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus

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With precision and insight, Jean-Denis Bredin defines these attitudes at the turn of the century as they played themselves out in the life of one man, and examines their legacy today. 
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Callil, Carmen

Bad Faith: A Story of Family and Fatherland

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Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government's and was responsible for sending thousand 
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Carlyle, Thomas

The French Revolution: A History

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This spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. 
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Glass, Charles

Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44

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An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. 
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Horne, Alistair

The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

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In this brilliant study of the Siege and its aftermath, Alistair Horne evokes the high drama of ten fantastic months and the spiritual agony which Paris and the Parisians suffered. 
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Horne, Alistair

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

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Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle of Verdun and the men who fought there 
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Paxton, Robert O.

Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order 1940-44

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Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. 
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Riding, Alan

And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris

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And the Show Went On provides the authoritative account of how Paris's artistic world lived through the German Occupation. From the desperation of defeat to the heights of creativity this is a moving history of survival, collaboration and resistance. 
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Schon, Alan

Napoleon Bonaparte

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A portrait of the "scourge of Europe", this biography captures the rise and fall of Napoloeon Bonaparte. 
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Spotts, Frederic

The Shameful Peace: How French Artist and Intellectuals Survived

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This fascinating book is the first to provide a full account of how France's artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence. Some became heroes, others villains; most were simply survivors. 
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Zola, Emile

The Dreyfus Affair: "J'accuse" and Other Writings

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This book is the first to provide, in English translation, the full extent of Zola's writings on the Dreyfus affair. It represents, in its polemical entirety, a classic defense of human rights and a searing denunciation of fanaticism and prejudice. 
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