June 2024 Issue Munro Price Cabarets & Conspiracies City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque By Mike Rapport Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair By Maurice Samuels LR
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April 2020 Issue Andrew Hussey Naked in the Cathedral Notre-Dame: The Soul of France By Agnès Poirier LR
May 2017 Issue Dominic Green Urban Warfare Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution By Mike Rapport LR
May 2017 Issue Allan Massie Toxic Relations City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris By Holly Tucker LR
December 2004 Issue Frank Fairfield Street History Paris: Biography of a City By Colin Jones The White Cities: Report From France 1925-39 By Joseph Roth LR
April 2009 Issue Caroline Moorehead Oncle Sam Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44 By Charles Glass LR
September 2008 Issue Allan Massie Paris Under the Swastika Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France By Agnes Humbert (Translated by Barbara Mellor) LR
October 2008 Issue Frederic Raphael Revenge of the Second-Rate The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation By Frederic Spotts LR
May 2013 Issue Andy Martin Chewing Things Over Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760 By E C Spary LR
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