Must Have Books

There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regarded simply as a history of flowers, it adds to t...

This is quite simply the most important book ever written in the English language by a military man on the subject of equestrian travel. It was designed to be used by the United States cavalry. Yet it...

A renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall o...

Flight to Arras is a memoir recounting the authors role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of his flights in...

Spartacus is the classic inspiring and powerful account of the uprising of the slaves against the Roman Empire in 73 BC, led by the gladiator Spartacus. Gibbons knowledge is impressive, and the b...

This sequel novel, set in January and February 1793, follows on from The Scarlet Pimpernel. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel has disguised themselves as a group of shabby second-rate mu...

As his elderly relative lay dying, insurance salesman Mr. Chase stands in the wings, waiting to inherit the manor of the soon to be deceased. Yet once in possession, Chase deems the home entirely impr...

This number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history. The heroine, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, governess to the children of the Duc ...