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A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were ...Show more
Kissinger's Year: 1973 by Alistair Horne
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
1973 was a seminal year in world history. The outbreak of the 'Yom Kippur War' took both Israel and the US by surprise, the Vietnam War finally ended, it was the year of detente with the Soviet Union, but the US executive was in a state of collapse following Watergate, and the year ended with the muslim ...Show more
Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of Louis-Napoleon and Eugenie, and the First World War and ...Show more
The Age of Napoleon by Alistair Horne
$21.95 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant short history of the life and times of Napoleon, by the pre-eminent historian of France. Alistair Horne begins his absorbing account by examining Napoleon's rise to prominence against the background of the French Revolution. He describes Napoleon's brilliance as a general and strategist, c ...Show more
The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. Suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice of the ...Show more
The Terrible Year by Alistair Horne
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history Beneath the glittering facade of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire there were forces of seething social and political unrest. When France succumbed to the Prussian invaders these forces came to the surface and the Commune took over. It ruled fo ...Show more
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