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![A Short History of France](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738132475.jpg)
Jean-Pierre Rioux
A Short History of France
Who are the French and what are their goals? A French historian provides the answer as he revisits his country’s history.
![A Tormented Scientist](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738146571.jpg)
Sébastien Balibar
A Tormented Scientist
A key, virtually unknown, moment in the history of science.When science emigrates under pressure from totalitarianism.
![Abd el-Kader, Apostle of Reconciliation](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738133625.jpg)
Mustapha Chérif
Abd el-Kader, Apostle of Reconciliation
An important historical figure whose works help us understand contemporary relations between Algeria and France, between East and West
![Algiers Putsch (The)](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738154958.jpg)
Maurice Vaïsse
The Algiers Putsch
Using archives and unpublished accounts, the spellbinding tale of a little-known turning point in contemporary history
![Asking "What if?" in History](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738121660.jpg)
Anthony Rowley, Fabrice d'Almeida
Asking "What if?" in History
What if things had turned out differently? What if Pontius Pilate had pardoned Jesus?
![Balzac at Table](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738125521.jpg)
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
![Black Sun of Paroxysm (The) - Nazism, War Violence, and Now](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738154477.jpg)
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).
![Charles V - The Anguish of Power](https://s2.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738134585.jpg)
Denis Crouzet
Charles V The Anguish of Power
A new biography of Charles V, a highly underestimated character hanging between power and renunciation
![China and the West - A Five-Hundred-Year History](https://s0.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738131744.jpg)
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
![Days in May that Made History in Fran (The)](https://s1.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738144126.jpg)
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.
![Explaining the Shoah and Genocide to Our Children](https://s3.odilejacob.fr/couvertures/9782738150752.jpg)
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.