| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “french history”
books tagged “french history”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
-
The Autumn of the Middle Agesby Johan Huizinga, Rodney J. Payton, Ulrich MammitzschISBN 0226359948 (0-226-35994-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autumn of the Middle Ages'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
More editions of The Autumn of the Middle Ages:
-
Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby CaesarISBN 0140444335 (0-14-044433-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
[via]More editions of Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul:
-
Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby S. A. Handford, CaesarISBN 0140440216 (0-14-044021-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
[via]More editions of Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul:
-
Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Michael Wood, Theo CuffeISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
More editions of Candide:
- Candide: ISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0300119879 (0-300-11987-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - Candide and Other Stories: ISBN 0192817302 (0-19-281730-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0312851901 (0-312-85190-1)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Candide: ISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Candide: ISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
-
Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
-
Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'More editions of Candide:
-
Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
-
Chronicles of the Crusadesby G De VillehardouinISBN 0140441247 (0-14-044124-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles of the Crusades'Book summary:Unread/unmarked paperback shelved for decades with minimal wear to cover ships same or next day. [via]
More editions of Chronicles of the Crusades:
-
Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927by Mary Louise RobertsISBN 0226721221 (0-226-72122-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927'Book summary:In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War.[via]
In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity.
Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.More editions of Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927:
The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillachby Alice Yaeger KaplanISBN 0226424154 (0-226-42415-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach'More editions of The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach:
-
Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplementoby CaesarISBN 0198146027 (0-19-814602-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplemento'Book summary:(Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet. [via]
More editions of Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplemento:
The Course of French Historyby Pierre Goubert, Maarten UlteeISBN 0415066719 (0-415-06671-9)
Softcover, Routledge
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Course of French History'More editions of The Course of French History:
-
A Cultural History of the French Revolutionby Emmet KennedyISBN 0300050135 (0-300-05013-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cultural History of the French Revolution'More editions of A Cultural History of the French Revolution:
-
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation The Science of Freedomby Peter GayISBN 0393313662 (0-393-31366-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enlightenment: An Interpretation The Science of Freedom'Book summary:The second volume of Peter Gay's in-depth study of the dawn of the modern worldthe Age of Reason.
The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its humane and libertarian vision. [via]More editions of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation The Science of Freedom:
Europe and the French Imperium, 1799-1814by Geoffrey BrunISBN 0313240787 (0-313-24078-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Europe and the French Imperium, 1799-1814'More editions of Europe and the French Imperium, 1799-1814:
-
The First World Warby John KeeganISBN 0375700455 (0-375-70045-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The First World War'Book summary:Despite the avalanche of books written about the First World War in recent years, there have been comparatively few books that have concentrated on delivering the big picture--a comprehensive account of the war and its campaigns from start to finish--and this book fills the gap superbly. As readers familiar with John Keegan's previous books, such as the The Face Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, will know, Keegan is a historian of the old school. He has no earth-shattering new theories to challenge the status quo, no first-person accounts to tug on the emotions; what he does have, though, is the gift for talking the lay person through the twists and turns of a complex narrative in a way that is never less than accessible or engaging. Keegan never tries to ram his learning down your throat. Where other authors have struggled to explain how Britain could ever allow itself to be dragged into such a war in 1914, Keegan keeps it practical. The level of communications that we enjoy today just didn't exist then, and so it was much harder to keep track of what was going on. By the time a message had finally reached the person in question, the situation may have changed out of all recognition. Keegan applies this same "cock-up" theory of history to the rest of the war, principally the three great disasters at Gallipoli, the Somme, and Passchendaele. The generals didn't send all those troops to their death deliberately; they did so out of incompetence, ineptitude, and because they had no idea of what was actually going on at the front. Whether deliberate or not, though, the end result was nearly one million dead British and Commonwealth soldiers. The First World War is not afraid to point the finger at those generals who deserve it, but even Keegan has to admit he doesn't have all the answers. If it all seems so obviously futile and such a massive waste of life now, he asks, how could it have seemed worthwhile back then? Why did so many people carry on, knowing they would die? Why indeed. --John Crace [via]
French Revolution and the Churchby John McMannersISBN 0313230749 (0-313-23074-9)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'French Revolution and the Church'
The French Secret Servicesby Douglas PorchISBN 0374529450 (0-374-52945-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The French Secret Services'More editions of The French Secret Services:
The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf Warby Douglas PorchISBN 0374158533 (0-374-15853-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War'More editions of The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War:
-
The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192835823 (0-19-283582-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gallic War'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
More editions of The Gallic War:
-
Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary Franceby Georges LefebvreISBN 0394719395 (0-394-71939-5)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France'More editions of Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France:
History of the Franksby Gregory-Bishop of ToursISBN 0393098451 (0-393-09845-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Franks'More editions of History of the Franks:
-
The History of the Franksby Lewis ThorpeISBN 0140442952 (0-14-044295-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Franks'Book summary:Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539 594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This volume contains all ten books from the work, the last seven of which provide an in-depth description of Gregory's own era, in which he played an important role as Bishop of Tours. With skill and eloquence, Gregory brings the age vividly to life, as he relates the exploits of missionaries, martyrs, kings and queens including the quarrelling sons of Lothar I, and the ruthless Queen Fredegund, third wife of Chilperic. Portraying an age of staggering cruelty and rapid change, this is a powerful depiction of the turbulent progression of faith at a time of political and social chaos. [via]
More editions of The History of the Franks:
-
An Illustrated History of the First World Warby John KeeganISBN 037541259X (0-375-41259-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Illustrated History of the First World War'Book summary:John Keegan's The First World War was everywhere praised, and became the definitive account of the war that created the modern world. The New York Times Book Review acclaimed Keegan as "the best military historian of our day," and the Washington Post called the book "a grand narrative history [and] a pleasure to read."
Now Keegan gives us a lavishly illustrated history of the war, brilliantly interweaving his narrative--some of it derived from his classic work and some of it new--with a brilliant selection of photograps, paintings, cartoons and posters drawn from archives across Europe and America, some published here for the first time. These images take us into the heart of battles that have become legend: Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme. They show us the generals' war and the privates' war--young soldiers, away from home for the first time, coming of age under fire.
We see how a civilization at the height of its power and influence crippled itself as the faith in progress, rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment was shattered. We see how four empires--the German, the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman--collapsed, and how the seeds for the Second World War were planted. Keegan tells how ambition, mistrust and failures of diplomacy and communication all played a part in allowing this conflict to set ablaze what was then the world's most prosperous society. And he describes how the effects of this war lasted long after it ended; its ghosts still haunt Europe today.
An Illustrated History of the First World War carries us across the Europe of nearly a century ago, revealing the devastation, camaraderie, political machinations and battlefield maneuverings that changed the world. It presents the essential cast of that cataclysmic drama, from the decision makers at the top--Haig, Joffre, Hindenberg, Pershing--to the troops in the trenches. Through its unique amalgam of pictorial and narrative brilliance, the book illuminates the war as no other work has done. [via]More editions of An Illustrated History of the First World War:
-
Is Paris Burningby Larry Collins, Dominique LapierreISBN 0446392251 (0-446-39225-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Is Paris Burning'Book summary:From the bestselling author of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events--the drama, the fervor, and the triumph--that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time. This bestseller about 1944 Paris is timed to meet the demand for Dominique Lapierre books that will be generated by the March release of his compelling new Warner hardcover, Beyond Love. [via]
More editions of Is Paris Burning:
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionismby Ross KingISBN 0385661037 (0-385-66103-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism'More editions of The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism:
Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolutionby Olivier Blanc, Alan SheridanISBN 0374183864 (0-374-18386-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution'More editions of Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution:
Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution 1793-1794by Olivier BlancISBN 0374521883 (0-374-52188-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution 1793-1794'More editions of Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution 1793-1794:
Lectures on the French Revolutionby John E. ActonISBN 0404002846 (0-404-00284-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lectures on the French Revolution'More editions of Lectures on the French Revolution:
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of Franceby Castries, Ren-E De LA Croix, Duc DeISBN 0394507347 (0-394-50734-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives of the Kings and Queens of France'More editions of The Lives of the Kings and Queens of France:
The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192838423 (0-19-283842-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the Iron Mask'Book summary:Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask climactically concludes the epic adventures of the three Musk3ateers: here, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies. [via]
More editions of The Man in the Iron Mask:
- The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0451530136 (0-451-53013-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0192827529 (0-19-282752-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Man in the Iron Mask : Tie In: ISBN 0451197003 (0-451-19700-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0451525647 (0-451-52564-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0192838423 (0-19-283842-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0451530136 (0-451-53013-6)
-
A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of Nogentby Paul J. Archambault, GuibertISBN 0271014822 (0-271-01482-2)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of Nogent'Book summary:A Monk's Confession is the first completely new English translation of Guibert of Nogent's remarkable memoirs in over seventy years. Written around the year 1115, they offer an unparalleled look at the life of a monk in the Middle Ages. Guibert, who lived his entire life in northern France, called these memoirs his book of monodiae, or solitary songs. Many scholars consider them the first Latin autobiography in the West after Augustine's Confessions. Readers will be stirred and surprised by Guibert's intense preoccupation with the sinfulness of his soul, his visions of demons and necromancy, and his frank struggle to come to terms with his sexuality. But Guibert is also a valuable witness to his age. In addition to his personal history, his memoirs give a brief chronicle of the abbey of Nogent--where he served as abbot for some twenty years--and a vivid account of the bloody uprising of the Laon Commune in 1112. His observations give precious insight into education, monastic life, and the beginnings of the great medieval towns.Paul J. Archambault's translation successfully renders Guibert's Latin--at times stylish, at times rustic--into lively, modern English. He consulted Edmond-Rene Labande's authoritative 1981 Latin edition with French translation. He provides a complete introduction and annotation that help situate Guibert within the history and literature of the Middle Ages while permitting readers to judge for themselves how to interpret this fascinating voice from the past. [via]
More editions of A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of Nogent:
-
Napoleon and Wellingtonby Andrew RobertsISBN 0297646079 (0-297-64607-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon and Wellington'Book summary:On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses. The constantly changing relationship between these two nineteenth-century giants forms the basis of Andrew Roberts' compelling study in pride, rivalry, propaganda, nostalgia, and posthumous revenge. [via]
More editions of Napoleon and Wellington:
Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrandby David LawdayISBN 0224073664 (0-224-07366-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand'More editions of Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand:
Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978by Norma EvensonISBN 0300022107 (0-300-02210-7)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978'More editions of Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978:
Paris: A Century of Change, Eighteen Seventy-Eight to Nineteen Seventy-Eightby Norma EvensonISBN 0300026676 (0-300-02667-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris: A Century of Change, Eighteen Seventy-Eight to Nineteen Seventy-Eight'More editions of Paris: A Century of Change, Eighteen Seventy-Eight to Nineteen Seventy-Eight:
The People's Armiesby Richard CobbISBN 0300040423 (0-300-04042-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The People's Armies'More editions of The People's Armies:
The People's Armies: The Armies Revolutionnaries Instrument of the Terror in the Departments April 1793 to Floreal Year IIby Richard CobbISBN 0300027281 (0-300-02728-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The People's Armies: The Armies Revolutionnaries Instrument of the Terror in the Departments April 1793 to Floreal Year II'More editions of The People's Armies: The Armies Revolutionnaries Instrument of the Terror in the Departments April 1793 to Floreal Year II:
Persian Lettersby Montesquieu, Charles Louis De Secondat, De LA Br`Ede Et DeISBN 0140442812 (0-14-044281-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Persian Letters'More editions of Persian Letters:
-
Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Roger GardISBN 0140447644 (0-14-044764-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Red and the Black'Book summary:Little appreciated in its day, this 1831 classic by Henri Beyle (that was Stendhal's real name) tells the story of the rise and fall of Julien Sorel, a man of affairs in every sense. It's also a scathing indictment of a materialistic society, France under the Bourbons and an irresistible chronicle of love, politics and manners. The book now resides securely on most short lists of the world's great novels. [via]
More editions of Red and the Black:
- Red and the Black: ISBN 0192838717 (0-19-283871-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Red and the Black: ISBN 0393098214 (0-393-09821-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Red and the Black: ISBN 0192817159 (0-19-281715-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Red and the Black: ISBN 0394601572 (0-394-60157-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Red and the Black: ISBN 0140447644 (0-14-044764-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Red and the Black: ISBN 0192838717 (0-19-283871-7)
The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Marie Henry Bey Stendhal, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 039460511X (0-394-60511-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830'More editions of The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830:
-
The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Centuryby Donald M. Frame, Frame, Donald Murdoch (AFT), Jonathan Keates, Lloyd C. ParksISBN 0451530284 (0-451-53028-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:[via]In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired the imagination of Marie Henri Beyle, and under the pen name Stendhal, he set to writing what was to become one of the great psychological novels of all time. I will be famous around 1880, he predicted in one of his many diaries. I shall not go out of style, nor my glory go out of style.
Set in a provincial French town and in Paris, The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a handsome and brilliant young tutor who is both hero and villain. Cold, opportunistic, and uncompromising with othersincluding his influential mistresshe follows his lust for power and wealth. At the same time, he is tortured by his uncontrollable passions, and by the military and religious forcesthe enigmatic Red and Black that dominate French society in the years following the Revolution.
More editions of The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Century:
-
The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Centuryby Stendhal, Lloyd C. Parks, Donald M. FrameISBN 0451517938 (0-451-51793-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:One of the great novels of the century, The Red and the Black is a powerful character study of Julien Sorel, a clever and idealistic young opportunist who attempts to rise above his station through a combination of talent, deception, and hypocrisy. He uses his powers of seduction and charm to secure advancement, only to find himself betrayed by his own passions and outwitted by the larger political and social intrigues of post-Napoleonic France. His doomed quest for fortune and love is both heroic and satirical, reflecting the inner tensions and outer pretensions that result from desiring what is not ours. Stendhal's complex portrayal of his characters' thoughts and feelings was far ahead of his time, earning The Red and the Black recognition as the first modern psychological novel, with Julien as his most brilliant creation and one of the greatest characters in all of literature. [via]
More editions of The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century:
The Road from Versailles : Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchyby Munro PriceISBN 0312326130 (0-312-32613-0)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road from Versailles : Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy'More editions of The Road from Versailles : Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy:
- The Road from Versailles : Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy: ISBN 0312268793 (0-312-26879-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - The Road from Versailles : Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy: ISBN 0312326130 (0-312-32613-0)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
- The Road from Versailles : Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy: ISBN 0312268793 (0-312-26879-3)
-
Saint Joan of Arcby Vita Sackville-WestISBN 0385421095 (0-385-42109-5)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Joan of Arc'Book summary:Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices. Joan was seventeen when she took command of the armies of France--a peasant girl in the early fifteenth century in charge of a nation's forces. At nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. Before her twentieth birthday she was burned at the stake. In 1920 she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. In a clever, brisk voice, Vita Sackville-West tells the triumphant story of a French peasant girl raised in a country torn apart by the Hundred Years' War who rose from poverty to military greatness. With dazzling insight and clarity, Sackville-West breathes new life into Joan of Arc's beautiful and tragic story.[via]More editions of Saint Joan of Arc:
-
Scarlet and Blackby StendhalISBN 0140440305 (0-14-044030-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlet and Black'Book summary:It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circumstances and wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy. On the road to the surprising crime he commits (out of passion, principle or insanity), he turns into Stendhal's greatest and most completely human creation. [via]
More editions of Scarlet and Black:
-
The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0451527623 (0-451-52762-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:The first and most successful in the Baronesss series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Scarlet Pimpernel:
- The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0375406581 (0-375-40658-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0440402204 (0-440-40220-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0451523156 (0-451-52315-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0451527623 (0-451-52762-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
- The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0375406581 (0-375-40658-1)
-
Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtiusby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192831208 (0-19-283120-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
More editions of Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius:
-
Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armeeby John R. EltingISBN 0306807572 (0-306-80757-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee'Book summary:This authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon's most powerful weaponthe Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines every facet of this incredibly complex human machine: its organization, command system, logistics, weapons, tactics, discipline, recreation, mobile hospitals, camp followers, and more. From the army's formation out of the turmoil of Revolutionary France through its swift conquests of vast territories across Europe to its legendary death at Waterloo, this book uses excerpts from soldiers' letters, eyewitness accounts, and numerous firsthand details to place the reader in the boots of Napoleon's conscripts and generals. In Elting's masterful hands the experience is truly unforgettable.[via]More editions of Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee:
-
A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Richard MaxwellISBN 0141439602 (0-14-143960-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public history paralled one another as the political activities and personal responsibilities of these fictional characters, during the French Revolution, draw them into the Paris of the Terror. [via]
More editions of A Tale of Two Cities:
- A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0192833901 (0-19-283390-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0451530578 (0-451-53057-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0141309334 (0-14-130933-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 019281771X (0-19-281771-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0382099931 (0-382-09993-1)
Softcover, Silver Burdett Pr - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0451523016 (0-451-52301-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0451524411 (0-451-52441-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0451526562 (0-451-52656-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0192545043 (0-19-254504-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0382035437 (0-382-03543-7)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Co - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0396085350 (0-396-08535-0)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 044806023X (0-448-06023-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0141439602 (0-14-143960-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0192833901 (0-19-283390-1)
Their Gracious Pleasureby Claude ManceronISBN 0394501551 (0-394-50155-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Gracious Pleasure'More editions of Their Gracious Pleasure:
Toward the Brinkby Claude ManceronISBN 0394515331 (0-394-51533-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Toward the Brink'More editions of Toward the Brink:
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944by Robert O. PaxtonISBN 0231124694 (0-231-12469-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944'More editions of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944:
- Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944: ISBN 0393007944 (0-393-00794-4)
Hardcover, Norton - Vichy France:Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944: ISBN 0394473604 (0-394-47360-4)
Hardcover - Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944: ISBN 0231124694 (0-231-12469-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
- Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944: ISBN 0393007944 (0-393-00794-4)
-
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-44by R. O. PaxtonISBN 0231054270 (0-231-05427-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-44'Book summary:A strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period, demonstrating how in the interests of stability, French national feeling favored collaboration with the German-controlled regime. [via]
More editions of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-44:
Voltaire in Loveby Nancy MitfordISBN 0241112885 (0-241-11288-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Voltaire in Love'More editions of Voltaire in Love:
The Waning of the Middle Agesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0312855400 (0-312-85540-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waning of the Middle Ages'More editions of The Waning of the Middle Ages:
-
The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Xivth and Xvth Centuriesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0385092881 (0-385-09288-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Xivth and Xvth Centuries'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
More editions of The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Xivth and Xvth Centuries:
The Wind from America, 1778-1781by Claude ManceronISBN 0394498836 (0-394-49883-6)
Hardcover, Knopf
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind from America, 1778-1781'More editions of The Wind from America, 1778-1781:
A World on Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygenby Joe JacksonISBN 0143038834 (0-14-303883-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A World on Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen'More editions of A World on Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen:
The Yellow Cross : The Story of the Last Catharsby Rene WeisISBN 0375704418 (0-375-70441-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars' Rebellion Against the Inquisition 1290-1329'More editions of The Yellow Cross : The Story of the Last Cathars:
-
Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Parisby Michael AllinISBN 0385334117 (0-385-33411-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris'Book summary:Zarafa was a gentle 19th-century giraffe, a simple animal whose life was dictated by the tumultuous times around her. From the African savanna where she was caught and tamed as an infant, Zarafa was shipped down the Nile--along with the meat of her mother and several hundred human slaves--to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. From there she sailed on to France, a gift from Muhammad Ali, the "Renaissance Barbarian" viceroy of Egypt, intended to distract King Charles X while Egyptian forces invaded Greece. As political ploy, it didn't work. But as ambassador from an exotic land, this odd animal captivated the French people for almost two decades, as she lived out her life as part of the royal menagerie.
Michael Allin intertwines natural history with a brutal chapter in the history of civilization, augmenting the clarity of both. This story of one docile animal contrasts sharply with those of the human profiteers, warmongers, and interlopers who ultimately decide her fate. But Zarafa's otherworldly charm also helps us to understand the intrigue that led Napoleon to bring not only his troops, but a small army of European intellectuals to study all aspects of Egyptian culture and history, in the invasion that sets up her story. --Lauran Cole Warner [via]
More editions of Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}