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Iannis Roder
Explaining the Shoah and Genocide to Our Children
This book desacralizes the Shoah and shows that though that genocide had specific characteristics, it can be compared to others.
Vincent Lanata
The Days in May that Made History in Fran
The history of France is presented here in an amusing and unexpected way. The final chapter offers a consideration of themes that remain decisive in the life of France: war, Europe, geopolitics, and others.
Michel Cartier
China and the West A Five-Hundred-Year History
The history of Chinese-Western relations — a tale of fascination and fear — recounted by a historian specialising in the Far East
Denis Crouzet
Charles V The Anguish of Power
A new biography of Charles V, a highly underestimated character hanging between power and renunciation
Christian Ingrao
The Black Sun of Paroxysm Nazism, War Violence, and Now
Very accessible and enlightening historiological analyses of the present time (Nazi violence, war suicides, emergencies).
Anka Muhlstein
Balzac at Table
A luminous essay of “literary gastronomy” for food lovers as well as for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century novel
Anthony Rowley, Fabrice d'Almeida
Asking "What if?" in History
What if things had turned out differently? What if Pontius Pilate had pardoned Jesus?