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  • French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1626–1786

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    "The first comprehensive listing of these ships in English. . . . Profusely illustrated [and] impressively informative." — Midwest Book ReviewThe origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661. Thereafter, Louis XIV ... Leer más

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  • French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1786–1861

    Design, Construction, Careers and Fates

    This comprehensive reference presents in-depth information on French Naval ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.By 1786, after besting the Royal Navy in its many conflicts across the Atlantic, the French Navy had earned a sterling reputation for its ship design and fighting skills. Yet within a few years, the French Revolution had devastated its efficiency, leading to one defeat after ... Leer más

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    The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love.In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dressed in men's clothing and slipped secretly aboard his ship the day before it sailed on a voyage ... Leer más

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  • The Black Prince and the Capture of a King

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    This "taut narrative" of the fourteenth-century conflict between England and France offers "a detailed, climactic account of a legendary battle" ( Publishers Weekly).The epic fourteenth-century Battle of Poitiers marked a major turn in the Hundred Years' War between England and France. Prince Edward, known to all as the Black Prince, not only won a surprising victory in his first campaign as ... Leer más

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  • She Landed By Moonlight

    The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the 'real Charlotte Gray'

    On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: to fight for her beloved, broken France and to find her lost love. Pearl's lover was a Parisian parfumier turned ... Leer más

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  • D-Day Through French Eyes

    Normandy 1944

    "A moving examination of how French civilians experienced the fighting" at Normandy during WWII from the acclaimed author of What Soldiers Do ( Telegraph, UK)."Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges." Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that's how one Normandy woman learned that the D-Day invasion was under ... Leer más

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  • 1000 Years of Annoying the French

    The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller.Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunately—after years of humorously chronicling the vast cultural gap between the two countries—author Stephen Clarke is perfectly positioned ... Leer más

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  • The Hundred Years War Vol 2

    Trial By Fire

    In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the king. ... Leer más

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  • Trafalgar

    The men, the battle, the storm

    Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. As ... Leer más

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  • The Glorious First of June

    Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror

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    France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents, two vast French and British fleets meet in mid-Atlantic after a week of skirmishing.The French, in ships painted blood-red and bearing banners proclaiming 'la République ou la mort!' are escorting an American ... Leer más

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  • 1415 Agincourt

    A New History

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    As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march in search of a crossing of the Somme, can only have dreamt that the battle of the next day would be remembered as one of the most momentous victories ever won.Six hundred years down the line, the battle of Agincourt still rings through the centuries. In this stupendous victory ... Leer más

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  • The Hundred Years War Vol 4

    Cursed Kings

    Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. It had never happened before in the country's history - and it ... Leer más

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