French Naval & Colonial Troops 1872-1914 (Chartrand Rene)(Paperback)

French Naval & Colonial Troops 1872-1914 (Chartrand Rene)(Paperback)

France's colonial wars in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia were very largely fought by an organization completely separate from both the home-defense Metropolitan Army and the Arm e d'Afrique in Algeria. The Naval Troops (Troupes de la Marine) were volunteers, and earned a reputation for

Indian Mutiny - 1857 (David Saul)(Paperback / softback)

In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the British Empire. This title explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial

Learn Canadian French (Lvesque Pierre)(Paperback)

Learn Canadian French and speak with a beautiful aged accent of colonial France that has stood the test of time, exceeding 400 years in North America. This book provides countless expressions, idioms, and typical French Canadian words, explaining the differences between Parisian French and Canadian

French and Germans, Germans and French - A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 (Cobb Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Gattefosse's Aromatherapy (Gattefosse Rene-Maurice)(Paperback)

Rene-Maurice Gatefosse was a French chemist, who first coined the word aromatherapy in the 1920s. This is his first modern work on the

The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War (Lewis Jon E.)(Paperback)

By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were 'in country' in Vietnam. Before America's longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese had died, along with 36,000 Americans. The Vietnam War was the first rock 'n' roll war, the first

Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation (Peabody Rebecca)(Paperback)

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and

The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (Vergs Franoise)(Paperback)

In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in

Etaples: Britain's Notorious Infantry Base Depot, 1914-1919 (Wynn Stephen)(Paperback)

During the First World War, Etaples, a coastal fishing port situated on the North-East French coast, 15 miles south of Boulogne, was a base camp for the British Army, as well as a major medical facility for wounded and sick troops, including both British and Canadian hospitals. The Etaples camp

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb (Chateaubriand Francois-Rene de)(Paperback / softback)

The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time he came to write his extraordinary, highly entertaining memoirs, Chateaubriand had witnessed some of the iconic figures and events of French history--from the court of Louis XVI, to the reign of