French Wars

The Last of the Mohicans has all the elements of a classic frontier adventure: massacres and raids, innocent settlers, hardened soldiers, renegade Indians, and a doomed love affair. It is a memorable portrait of fierce individualism and moral courage. But what draws readers and listeners again and again to this panoramic novel is its deep insight into the symbols of American consciousness.

In MASQUERADE, Liz Sansborough embarked on a terrifying journey that took her into the perilous world of high-level espionage. THE COIL picks up years afterwards, when Liz has managed to put her life back together and is settling into her place in academia. But when prominent political figures...

Véritable médecin aux pieds nus, sensible aux conditions misérables des travailleurs et épris de justice, Norman Bethune n’a qu’un seul objectif : l’accès aux soins de santé universel. Engagé dans les causes humanitaires, et au volant de sa clinique mobile, il combat le fascisme pendant la guerre d’Espagne, puis il se joint aux efforts des Chinois communistes en allant lutter a leurs côtés et en soignant les blessés dans des conditions héroïques. Il est considéré, en Chine, comme un héros de la Révolution.

Le grand roman noir du passé nazi de la Finlande Ukraine, 1941. Deux SS tiennent entre leurs mains la vie d’une mère et de son enfant. Au dernier moment, ils décident de leur épargner la fureur de leurs hommes. Finlande, 2019. Deux hommes s’acharnent sur le corps d’un vieillard et le laissent pour mort. La victime était un ancien combattant méritant et médaillé.

Avant le conflit, c'était un peintre talentueux reçu au château, désormais c'est un déserteur que la maîtresse de maison renvoie sèchement. Saisie de compassion, Rosalie, la fille d'Isaure, le cache au grenier. Peut-on agir sur le destin? Le fugitif, la jeune fille et la mère refusent la place qui leur a été assignée.

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Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

A London intelligence agent pursues a money launderer to expose the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch. In a world where national borders shrink to insignificance in the face of colossal wealth and corporate power, The Silent Oligarch offers a new kind of hero to combat a new kind of crime...

Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a much-talked-about 2016 presidential candidate, offers fourteen lessons from our nation’s past and discusses how they can be used to restore American courage, faith, and wisdom. Nearly forty-five years ago, Bobby Jindal’s parents left their home in rural...

While the France they have known is crumbling around them, two courageous women face danger and betrayal under Hitler's tyranny. Giselle Munier and Jean Thornton are more like sisters than cousins, having spent many of their summers together, but with the outbreak of World War II, both women's lives take a dramatic turn.

On the outer banks of the Carolinas in 1941, fishermen and a few lonely sailors constitute the human population. Dominating the rough yet beautiful landscape is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, run for generations by the Thurlow family. But Josh Thurlow, the lighthouse keeper's son, has...

This meticulously researched book reveals how the Revolution’s attack on tradition—from the Church to family structures—created a new order still felt today. Whether you're a history enthusiast or curious about the forces that shaped Western modernity, this book uncovers the Revolution's war on established authority and its far-reaching effects.

Our Island Story, originally published in 1905 and later updated, details the history of Britain up to World War I (including some myths and legends associated with British history). Author H. E. Marshall based the book on her answers to her children's questions about the history of their "home island" (Great Britain). This volume covers the period from the French Revolution to World War I.

En interrogeant les liens entre multilatéralisme, conflits armés et crise climatique, ils révèlent des dynamiques jusqu'ici trop rarement pensées ensemble. Ils montrent que les conflits armés et les crises climatiques s'entrelacent et se renforcent mutuellement.

At 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldiers out that bitterly cold morning paid little attention to them. In the meantime, over 3,500 Yankee soldiers peacefully slept. Within 30 minutes, McNeill’s rangers had kidnapped Union generals George Crook and Benjamin Kelley from their hotels and spirited them out of town.

Monte Cassino, monastère sacré au nord-ouest de Naples. Les Allemands ont construit d'énormes positions défensives. La bataille de Monte Cassino, livrée de l'hiver au printemps 1944, sera un enfer indescriptible, aussi bien pour les défenseurs que pour les attaquants. Les alliés font appel aux avions, à l'artillerie, aux blindés et à l'infanterie de plusieurs nations. Les forces allemandes sont dirigées par la meilleure troupe d'élite. Le Régiment Panzer nº 27 - le régiment disciplinaire - se trouve parmi elles.

In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crewmembers, supplied with "escape kits", knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning home. An estimated 12,000 French civilians helped make this possible. More than 5,000 airmen, many of them American, successfully traveled along escape lines organized much like those of the US Underground Railroad.

A secret letter. A wartime promise. A courageous act of love... Singapore, 1942: The war is drawing ever closer, and Dorothy faces a heart-rending choice to flee the country she has come to call home. With warplanes advancing across the ocean, she is boarding a boat full of evacuees when...

King Philip VI was the first French King of the famous House Valois, and he inherited France at the height of its power. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t remain that way for long. His fierce rivalry with King Edward of England destabilized the region, threw France into turmoil, and launched one of Europe's most infamous wars: The Hundred Years’ War. Originally born into minor nobility, Philip was never considered to one day be king. The life journey of Philip VI, the first king of House Valois, is a truly fascinating story filled with unsuspecting inheritance.

Comment vivre en étant la fille d’un bourreau nazi ? Comment construire une vie d’adulte fondée sur le mensonge ? John Boyne dresse un portrait de femme inoubliable, au crépuscule de sa vie, rongée par ses démons.