Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 is the first book of Alist...

"e;A useful and charming introduction to a nation that has oh-so-definitely helped make the m...

This volume tells the story of the evacuations of children from wartorn Britain to America during...

The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact – on Paris, on France and on the res...

The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair...

The definitve account of Napoleon's rise to power by one of our greatest historians.On June 25, 1...

Britain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary ...

The battle of Verdun lasted ten months.It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, alon...

The life of Henry Kissinger seen through one seminal year - 1973.'In his masterly new book, disti...

In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, dis...

In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of light...