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While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the...

French Indochina: The History and Legacy of the French Empire’s Colonialism in Southeast Asia analyzes the colonization of Southeast Asia and what happened as a result of the decolonization. You will learn about the French in Southeast Asia like never before.

When America entered World War I in April 1917, state National Guard units had never planned to mobilize for this kind of war, and the men who made up the hometown companies of each regiment never imagined that they would be asked to fight in what was then the most savage war in human history - they were “innocents” being thrown into a horrendous European conflagration. Made up of companies from 10 Ohio towns, the 166th Infantry Regiment became part of the famous 42nd Division, known as the “Rainbow Division”.

She did not sing to be admired. She sang to survive. Édith Piaf’s voice did more than define French chanson — it exposed what happens when love, pain, and defiance are pushed beyond endurance. Small in body, vast in sound, Piaf turned a life marked by abandonment, obsession, addiction, and physical collapse into one of the most devastating voices the world has ever heard. This is not a nostalgic biography. In Édith Piaf — Singing at the Edge of Life, Julien Peltier traces how a woman forged an immortal voice from poverty, grief, and refusal. From the streets of Paris to ...

Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War. And the story of Gallipoli, where in August 1915 the Allied forces made their last valiant effort against the Turks, is one of infamous might-have-beens. If only the Allies had held out a little longer, pushed a little harder, had better luck, Gallipoli might have been the decisive triumph that knocked the Ottoman Empire out of the First World War.

What happens when soldiers turn against their own nation? In the early 1960s, as Algeria fought for independence, a secret French organization waged a brutal campaign of bombings, assassinations, and sabotage. They called themselves the Organisation de l’Armée Secrète (OAS). To their followers, they were patriots. To the world, they were terrorists. The Secret Army: The Rise and Fall of the OAS in Algeria is a gripping, cinematic history of one of the most dangerous underground movements of the 20th century. From the chaos of colonial Algiers to the near-assassination of Charles de ...

This meticulously researched book reveals how the Revolution’s attack on tradition—from the Church to family structures—created a new order still felt today. Whether you're a history enthusiast or curious about the forces that shaped Western modernity, this book uncovers the Revolution's war on established authority and its far-reaching effects.

Where the wild Atlantic crashes against the Basque cliffs, a village of fishermen became an empire’s dream, a poet’s refuge, and a surfer’s paradise. In Biarritz: The Eternal Shore, historian Julien Peltier traces nine centuries of transformation — from medieval whalers and royal lovers to jazz-age stars and modern surfers. Through wars, empires, and waves, Biarritz has reinvented itself endlessly, yet always remained true to its soul: proud, untamed, and irresistibly alive. With cinematic storytelling and meticulous research, Peltier reveals how a remote Basque port became the ...

Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich's incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians' courage and resilience in the face of evil.

La Revolución francesa es increíblemente compleja e involucra a muchas partes móviles, desde la monarquía hasta los clubes políticos, desde la intelectualidad hasta el campesinado hambriento que protesta en las calles. Este libro, te lo describe de forma sencilla. En efecto, la Revolución francesa se presenta como una paradoja increíblemente desconcertante. ¿Qué ocurrió? ¿Qué salió mal? En este libro, exploramos las posibilidades.

Lettres d'amour de Napoleon Bonaparte a Josephine de Beauharnais. Adaptation et Recit de David Serero.

(Livre complet) Mario Escobar, auteur de best-sellers internationaux, nous offre le récit de la fuite, du sacrifice et de l'espoir au cœur des dangers de la Seconde guerre mondiale. RECONNU AUTEUR DE BEST-SELLERS PAR USA TODAY Prix spécial pour Noël Août 1942. Jacob et Moïse Stein, deux jeunes frères Juifs, vivent chez leur tante dans un Paris sous occupation nazie. Leurs parents, célèbres dramaturges allemands, ont confié les enfants aux bons soins de leur tante jusqu’à ce qu’ils puissent trouver un endroit sûr pour réunir leur famille. Mais avant que les Stein puissent se...

In 1789 a group of sober-minded, concerned citizens set in motion a series of events which were to end up leading to the deaths of thousands of perfectly innocent persons. How did this reasonable movement of level-headed civic leaders spin out of control? At a glance, the French Revolution appears a bewildering series of political factions sweeping in and out of power, massacre and counter-massacre, terror and guillotine, and one economic crisis following another.

The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later, the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it.

Napoleon is regarded as one of history’s greatest generals, and Austerlitz was his greatest victory. Napoleon’s French army would still be well outnumbered at Austerlitz by a joint Russo-Austrian army. The Battle of Austerlitz was a tactical masterpiece that saw Napoleon actually invite an attack on his army by the bigger Coalition army. The result was a decisive victory that virtually annihilated the Third Coalition’s army and made Napoleon the master of the European continent.

The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty's Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi not only forged this 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported her across the ocean, but battled to raise money for the statue and make her a reality.

History celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country. But what has gone previously unexamined is Washington's life as a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel who led 400 American militiamen against a bigger, more experienced French army and paid a high price. Not only did Washington lose over a third of his men but the Battle of Great Meadows was also the spark that ignited the French and Indian War.

At the age of 17, Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, using forged documents to hide in plain sight. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and his ability to masterfully reproduce official documents with an artistic eye, he was recruited to join the Jewish underground. He soon became the primary forger for the Resistance in Paris, working tirelessly with his network to create papers that would save an estimated 14,000 men, women, and children from certain death.

A genius who changed literature forever. A man whose hatred nearly destroyed him. A legacy the world still can’t escape. In The Man Who Wouldn’t Die, bestselling biographer Evan Blackmoor delivers the definitive, fearless portrait of Louis-Ferdinand Céline—one of the most explosive, contradictory, and haunting figures of the 20th century. From his brutal World War I injury to the creation of Journey to the End of the Night, from literary stardom to political infamy, from exile to rediscovery, this is the gripping story of a writer whose influence refuses to stay buried. Brilliant ...

France is celebrated as the land of universal ideals—liberty, equality, fraternity. But beneath its single, confident voice lies a silence carefully constructed over centuries. Before French became the language of the Republic, France was a land of hundreds of tongues: Breton, Occitan, Basque, Alsatian, Flemish, Corsican—and many more. They were not defeated by time. They were erased by policy. In The Silence of France, Julien Peltier delivers a gripping, unsettling history of how one of the world’s most admired nations systematically eliminated its own linguistic diversity to forge ...