BIERMAN, JOHN

Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire

New York: St Martin's Press, 1988. Book Club. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312018274. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, light soiling on page front page edges, does not affect text. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 439 pages; This is a biography of Napoleon III who ruled over 18 years of success in France known as the Second Empire.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21483

Catalogue: History::France

Keywords: 0312018274 Napoleon III History::Europe

BRADBY, E. D.

A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789

Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Light edge wear, top fore corners lightly bumped ; A bright, solid book, red cloth covered boards with gilt title and design on spine ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 375 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 12672

Catalogue: History::France

Keywords: HISTORY

HARRIS, RUTH

Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

New York NY: Metropolitan Books, 2010. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805074716. Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 542 pages; "In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France apart, inflicting wounds on the society which have never fully healed.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21355

Catalogue: History::France

Keywords: 0805074716 dreyfus Judaism HISTORY History::Europe