Overview :This attractively illustrated volume describes the succession of courts and monarchies in France from the revolutionary period to the fall o... Read More
Overview :Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom--Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut--cities... Read More
Overview :When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green. Heinrich Heine The court of Napoleon I, in its g... Read More
Overview :The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time he came to write his extraordinary, highly e... Read More
Overview :A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war.Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets ar... Read More
Overview :Throughout history rulers have used dress as a form of legitimisation and propaganda. While palaces, pictures and jewels might reflect the c... Read More