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The description for this book, Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany, will be forthcoming.

A masterful and hugely entertaining history of the Tour de France's first hundred years. When Henri Desgrange began a new bicycle road race in 1903, he saw it as little more than a temporary publicity stunt to promote his newspaper. The sixty cyclists who left Paris to ride through the night to Lyons that first July had little idea they were pioneers of the most famous of all bike races, which would reach its centenary as one of the greatest sporting events on earth. The races of the early twent...

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts. The Royal Navy was a key player in the wider wars and, for Britain, the key factor in her eventual emergence as the only naval power capable of sustained global hegemony. The most iconic battles of any era were fought at sea during these years - from the Battle of the Nile in 1798 to Nelson's momentous victory at Trafalgar in October 1805. In this period, the Navy had reached a peak of efficiency and was unrival...

In the tradition of `Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's `Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistant A scion of one of the oldest families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in a magnificent chateau and educated in E...

Nelson's victory at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805 was a pivotal event in European history. But Trafalgar was not simply an isolated battle fought and won in an afternoon - the naval campaign had in fact begun more than four years before. This extraordinary period, following Napoleon's threat to invade England in 1801, came to be known as The Great Terror, and Britain was on the alert. As the Grande Armee faced a Dad's army of English volunteers across the Channel, a secret war of espionage and su...

Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to grow into a neurotic and unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. Meanwhile France entered upon one of the most glittering periods of her medieval history, years of power and ceremony, astonishing...

Talleyrand wird, mehr als 150 Jahre nach seinem Tod, auch heute noch haufig genannt, und er wird nicht nur als "Furst der Diplomaten", sondern auch als ein "wahrhaft schoepferischer Staatsmann" bezeichnet. Hinter der Darstellung seines Lebens im Mittelpunkt welthistorischer Ereignisse an der Seite Napoleons oder wahrend des Wiener Kongresses ist ein wichtiger Abschnitt seines Lebens eher in den Hintergrund getreten: die Jahre seines Exils in Amerika. Diese fur sein ferneres Lebensschicksal wicht...

Im Mai 1872 wurde in Strassburg eine aussergewoehnliche Universitat eingeweiht, die eine ganz spezielle Aufgabe im durch den Krieg von 1870/71 wieder deutsch gewordenen Elsass-Lothringen zu erfullen hatte. Von den franzoesischen und deutschen Historikern nur am Rande beachtet, verdient diese Universitat des Reichslandes, die alles andere als eine simple Germanisierungsanstalt war, eine eingehende wissenschaftliche Behandlung. Auf der Basis des Humboldtschen Universitatsgedankens und der kulturpr...

The hussars uniforms have always been, par excellence, the most brilliant of all. In this new book, the French hussar regiments are reviewed in detail with all their colorful characteristics of the French Revolution and Consulate period.

Webster's fundamental theme here is that the French Revolution resulted from a web of conspiracies, the primary of which was that of the Orleanist faction. Also involved were Illuminated Freemasonry, the Prussian Court, and English Jacobins. . - This work is both finely documented and significant in respect of hidden history. Any who would truly understand this terribly important epic of modern history would be well served by carefully reading this very important book.