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"A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians. Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon) overshadowed for too long by his more romanticized forebear. In the first full biography of Napoleon III by an American historian, Strauss-Schom uses...
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Struggling to speak French like a native?This French phrasebook is an invaluable guide for learning and speaking French while traveling. Designed for both beginners and advanced learners, learn how to speak in real life conversations with this organized guide.Our book provides useful phonetic transcriptions of French words and phrases to use in the most common situations including greetings, ordering food, booking hotels, emergency situations, small...
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Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America. To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independence was issued, King Louis XVI and French foreign minister Vergennes were aiding the rebels. After the Declaration, that...
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