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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Brittany and the Angevins Brittany and the Angevins J. A Everard The rule of the Angevins in Brittany is characterised usually as opening an isolated 'Celtic' society to a wider world and imposing new and alien institutions. This study, the first on the subject of… OL15184202W
1759 1759 Frank McLynn History would have been different if not for the events of 1759. It was the fourth year of the Seven Years', or the French-and-Indian, War, and crucial victories against the French in the first truly… OL15860366W
The Stuart court in exile and the Jacobites The Stuart court in exile and the Jacobites Edward T. Corp,Eveline Cruickshanks xxiv, 167 p. : 24 cm OL18340110W
From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir George E. Melton "This book concerns itself with one of the most unlikely relationships in the two decades before World War II: the alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet. By the mid 1930s, both fleets had o… OL22316972W
1,000 years of annoying the French 1,000 years of annoying the French Stephen Clarke Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her … OL24245740W