'History', suggests Robert Gildea, 'is a battlefield.' Questions of power, rights, identity and n...

A succinct history of France from 1945 to the present, which seeks to provide a sympathetic under...

The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery ...

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial power...

Nineteenth-century France was renowned for its literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology...

The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing ...

A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investiga...

The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery ...

This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

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The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myth...

'Powerfully argued and meticulously researched, this book changes the way we think about resistan...