France

A.D. Harvey looks at the enduring myth surrounding one of history’s ‘Great Men’, and how he dominated the nineteenth-century imagination outside France.

David Parker defends a controversial term against its critics.

Max Beloff reviews a fresh account of de Gaulle and the Free French movement.

Edited by H.R. Kedward and Nancy WoodMarching to Captivity. The War Diaries of a French PeasantGustave Folcher, translated by Christopher HillRescue as Resistance. How Jewish Organisations fought the Holocaust in FranceLucien Lazare, translated by Jeffrey M. Green

Geoffrey Treasure reassesses a tarnished reputation.  

John Dunne follows historians along the trail signposted by Geyl fifty years ago.

The French king and contemporary of Henry VIII died on March 31st, 1547.

The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.

Previewing his forthcoming biography, Robert Knecht argues that recent whitewash has failed to cover guilty blood.

John Hardman, a biographer of Louis XVI, argues that the king at the time of the French Revolution fails to live down to his abysmal reputation.