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WORLD WAR I & II HISTORY WEHRMACHT LETTERS by Marie Moutier…………………………………...…………………….....p.3 HITLER AND FRANCE by Jean-Paul Cointet…………………………………………………………..p.4 THE FORGOTTEN GREAT WAR, RUSSIA 1914-1917 by Alexandre Sumpf……………………....p.5 1916 – HELL by Yves Le Naour…………………………………………………………………………..p.6 OF BLOOD AND SCEPTRE by Jean Des Cars………………………………………………………...p.7 A HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH by François Delpla………………………………………………p.8

GENERAL HISTORY BATTLES THAT CHANGED HISTORY by Arnaud Blin……………………………………….…..….p.9 WHITE HOUSE SECRETS by Nicole Bacharan and Dominique Simonnet……………………..….p.10-11 A HISTORY OF BERLIN by Philippe Meyer………………………………………………….…………p.12 REMAINING JEWISH? by Yaël Hirsch…….……………………..…………………….……………….p.13 THE RED DYNASTY by Pascal Dayez-Burgeon……….…………………………………………......p.14

BIOGRAPHIES PETAIN by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon………………………………………………………………..p.15 LOUIS XV by Jean-Christian Petitfils…………………………………………………………………….p.16 ADMIRAL HORTHY¸The Hungarian Regent (1920-1944) by Catherine Horel..........................p.17 QUEEN ZENOBIA by Maurice Sartre and Annie Sartre-Fauriat……………………………………...p.18 THEODOSIUS by Bertrand Lançon……………………………………………………………………...p.19 ISABELLA The Catholic by Marie-France Schmidt……………………………………………………p.20 BENEDICT XV by Yves Chiron…..……………………………………………………………………....p.21 MARIE-ANTOINETTE by André Castelot..………………………………………………………………p.22 CAROLINE BONAPARTE by Florence de Baudus………………………………………………......p.23

MASTERS OF WAR MACARTHUR, THE ENFANT TERRIBLE OF THE US ARMY by François Kersaudy……………p.24-25

BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS THE CENTURY OF BLOOD by Emmanuel Hecht and Pierre Servent……………………………..p.26 A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES by Jacques Heers..……………………………………………….p.27 ZHUKOV by Jean Lopez and Lasha Otkhmezuri………………………………..............................p.28 THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR by Pierre Razoux…………………….………………………………………...p.29 SEVEN WOMEN by Lydie Salvayre.…………………………………………………………………....p.30 GORBACHEV by Bernard Lecomte………………..……………………………………………………p.31

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WORLD WAR I & II WEHRMACHT LETTERS Marie MOUTIER – Preface by Timothy Snyder Between 1939 and 1945, Wehrmacht soldiers wrote incessantly to their closest friends and family. In this selection of the most powerful and revealing letters selected among the 16 000 that were donated by German families to the Deutsche Dienststelle archive in Berlin, the reader discovers the Second World War, as seen from the inside. The letters are presented here in their entirety, chronologically, and cover all the fronts of the war - from the East to North Africa - allowing a broad picture of the conflict's evolution from the point of view of the "ordinary" soldier.

18 SEPTEMBER 2014 348 pp.

As Timothy Snyder says in his preface : "Hannah Arendt spoke of the banality of evil; in these letters one finds more often the evil of banality... The publication of the full texts of the letters allows us to see the frightening totality of everyday life...The connections (the soldiers) draw between what they see and what they do must be explained to others in ways that preserve both the sense of the war and the sense of those relationships. The German soldiers' ability to do evil and their capacity to rationalize to others, and thus to themselves, were all too human."

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Around 17 million soldiers served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, and nearly all of them wrote home regularly. These letters are among the invaluable documents that, as primary sources, provide an image of the war as seen from the inside. They are reproduced here for the first time in their entirety, adding immeasurably to our knowledge of the mindset and the actions of soldiers of the Third Reich. This is a description of the daily reality of warfare, fought on all fronts, from the invasion of Poland to the fall of Berlin. While the letters dating from the French campaign of 1940 or the beginning of Operation Barbarossa express a fervent hope to take part in the rebirth of Greater Germany, missives written in the wake of the defeat of Stalingrad are explosive in a different way. The reader absorbs the soldiers’ disillusion and distress in the face of physical and material conditions that grow daily more unbearable and an increasingly dim vision of victory as they are overwhelmed by Russian and American enemies. But their weariness of combat and desire to go home are balanced by expressions of exaltation of their faith in Germany and in Hitler. For, contrary to the outdated image which nonetheless remains in some sectors, that of a clean-cut and dutiful army that was somewhat distant from Naziism, the soldiers of the Wehrmacht were not ordinary soldiers. Most evident in these letters is the fact that many were the bearers of Hitler’s ideology throughout Europe, the spearhead of Naziism in war. A respected Germanist and specialist of the Third Reich, Marie Moutier ‘s doctorate has treated « The local organization of the mass shootings of Jews in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories 1941-1944 ». Her academic work has been followed by both Jean-Paul Bled and Edouard Husson. She is also a researcher and archive director for the Yahad-in Unum, an association committed to gathering the testimony of eyewitnesses to the mass executions of Jews and Roma in the former Soviet Union during WW II . She has undertaken 16 research trips to Germany and Eastern Europe (Russia, Bielorussia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Moldavia), as well as to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Each time we believe that all has been said concerning the Third Reich and the terrible period of Nazism, a new voice nevertheless emerges bringing out a new aspect, even partial. […] Marie Moutier has not wished to show the soldiers only as guilty parties but above all, and for once, as men in all their humanity." Edgar Bracht from Blessing Verlag

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WORLD WAR I & II HITLER AND FRANCE Jean-Paul COINTET An original study of a little-known side of Hitler in an examination of his complex relations with France over a thirty year period, one that would end in atrocity

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The author won the Grand Prix de l’Académie Française in 1999 Jean-Paul Cointet is a three time winner of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques Prize

Most readers now know a good deal about the Occupation and the Vichy regime. But what do we know, in this context, about the real master of occupied France, Hitler, and of his ultimate intentions where France was concerned? Strangely enough, not a great deal, apart from the famous photo of him contemplating the Eiffel Tower, the notorious handshake at Montoire, and his adamant order to destroy Paris. This new work, Hitler et la France, is the first to concentrate on Hitler’s actual vision of France, and it is highly original in at least three ways: First of all, it is based upon documents emanating from Hitler and his entourage. In addition, it goes back to the evolution of his perception of France in the period prior to 1940 (during the First World War, and as he wrote Mein Kampf, etc.). It follows Hitler’s actions step by step after 1940, thus revealing his terrifying plan for France. In the background is the face of a France still reeling from the trauma of the Great War, a country incapable of fully comprehending the reality of the Hitlerian phenomenon. Professor emeritus of universities, Jean-Paul Cointet is an acknowledged specialist of the Second World War. Author of several works that are considered references (Pierre Laval (Fayard, 1993), Marcel Déat (Perrin, 1998), Sigmaringen (Perrin, 2014), and Hippolyte Taine (Perrin, 2012), among others) he has thrice been the laureate of the Académie française (once awarded the Grand Prix) and the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques.

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WORLD WAR I & II THE FORGOTTEN GREAT WAR RUSSIA 1914-1918 Alexandre SUMPF The untold history of a long-neglected major front of the Great War

2 OCTOBER 2014 450 pp.

• An original work that has no equivalent in French, English or Russian, by the only French historian working directly on the subject

What do we know of the 15 million soldiers of the Czar who fought against three empires? Do we know what they thought, endured and experienced, how the war effort was organized, and the degree to which populations suffered from the losses, the deportations, and occupations? Imagine a civil society standing up to a power that scorns it through its patriotic, economic, and philanthropic commitment, an empire whose people seek to throw off the chains of Russian domination, a capital where political parties plot to put an end to autocracy. As Lenin said, this war «catalysed history». Out of it emerged two revolutions—of February and October, 1917—which would give birth to citizenship, create a new agrarian equilibrium, and definitively confirm the refusal to fight on the front. The Great War ended here as well, in March 1918, but only to give way to a myriad of political and social struggles cumulatively known as the civil war. If we have forgotten this conflict or know very little about it, it is because the memory of it, however vivid at the outset, was deactivated under the communist regime and remains so today. And yet, this was the most murderous front of the First World War. Alexandre Sumpf is a lecturer in Contemporary history at the Université de Strasbourg. Agrégé in history, he studied at the Ecole normale supérieure. His research focuses on propaganda in Russia and in the USSR, especially cinema. He is the author of De Lénine à Gagarine. Une histoire sociale de l’URSS (Gallimard, Folio histoire, 2013).

• An enlightening rereading of the conflict heightened by the most recent advances in historiography • The author’s use of primary sources from the Russian archives

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WORLD WAR I & II 1916 – HELL Jean-Yves LE NAOUR rd

With this 3 opus, the author devotes his considerable talent to the ongoing story of the Great War, his original interpretation of a wide range of sources bringing the reader face to face with the reality of st the 4 years of the 1 global conflict.

23 OCTOBER 2014 396 pp.

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The author’s reputation as an acknowledged specialist of the First World War The success of the first two volumes of the series, 1914 and 1915

In the same collection: 1914: 10.000 copies sold

At the dawn of 1916, Joffre was planning a general Allied offensive that would advance simultaneously on the Somme, the Russian front, the Balkans, and Italy. But the Germans attacked first, at Verdun on the 21st of February. In a single day, a million and a half shells were fired . An unprecedented fire power, and the beginning of hell. On a broader, international scope, 1916 saw the Arabs, led by Lawrence of Arabia, revolt against the flailing Ottoman Empire. Crumbling from the inside, Russia desperately threw its last troops into battle with the Broussilov offensive. 1916 was also the year when an exhausted Germany, asphyxiated by the British naval blockade, launched an intense campaign of submarine warfare. 1916 was also a year of tension and turbulent change on the French political front. The pacifist movement became organized, the Socialists split, the Union sacrée was fast fading, and the Chamber of Deputies and Senate met in secret committee to get rid of Joffre and Aristide Briand. With the narrative talent he is known for, Jean-Yves Le Naour takes us behind the scenes of the conflict, alternating the perceptions of the powers and those of the people, including those of the British and Germans, thanks to a study of diplomatic archives. In so doing, he demolishes a number of prejudices and commonly held assumptions, including the myth of Pétain, the victor of Verdun. In reality, his promotion dovetailed with a political plan to bring down Joffre! A lively and poignant narrative that brilliantly blends facts, feelings, and the realities of war. With a doctorate in history, documentary maker Jean-Yves Le Naour is a specialist of the Great War and the author of several works on the subject, including Les Soldats de la honte (Grand Prix d’histoire OuestFrance), 1914, and 1915, all published by Perrin.

1915: 10.000 copies sold

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WORLD WAR I & II OF BLOOD AND SCEPTRE Jean des CARS This is the story of how the European monarchies lived through the maelstrom of two world wars. Portraits, anecdotes, juggled st alliances… For the 1 time, Jean Des Cars takes us to the heart of the Courts of Europe at war.

30 OCTOBER 2014 400 pp.

Kings and Queens in the turmoil of two World Wars: the Hapsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, the Windsors, the royal families of Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.

This is an essentially personal and human story of the families of the reigning dynasties during the two world wars, all of them inextricably involved in and often victims of the dramatic events that punctuated these two conflicts. These families were often inter-related, which gave rise to additional dilemmas. La Guerre des rois et des reines is an often dramatic and always vivid account of the years of conflict that crushed Europe and precipitated the fall of several dynasties (the Romanovs and Hapsburgs in 1918; the royal houses of Romania, Yugoslavia, and Savoy after 1945). What became of the sovereigns in the aftermath of each of these wars? Who managed to survive, either still on their thrones, exiled, banished, or having abdicated? The double tragedy of the First and Second World Wars swept aside or definitively overwhelmed all the European monarchies, and through them, the power of the “old continent”. In a succession of chronological chapters, each concentrating upon one family, Jean des Cars presents portraits of the monarchs and zeroes in on key moments and little known anecdotes, in a narrative of the “twilight of the kings” as it has never been told. Jean des Cars is a historian of the great dynasties of Europe and their most illustrious members. Among his most popular works are Eugénie, la dernière impératrice (Perrin, 2000); Sissi ou la Fatalité (Perrin, 2009); La Saga des Romanov (Plon, 2008) ; La Saga des Habsbourg (Perrin, 2010); La Saga des Windsor (Perrin, 2011), La Saga des reines (Perrin, 2012) and La Saga des favorites (Perrin, 2013). SALES FOR JEAN DES CARS’ PREVIOUS WORKS :

Louis II de Bavière (1976) in ARGENTINA (Emece), ITALY (Ugo Mursia), JAPAN (Chuo Koron Shin-Sha) and POLAND (Panstwowy)

La saga des Habsbourg (2010) in CZECH REPUBLIC (Brana), ROMANIA (Trei) 30.000 copies sold in France

Eugénie, la dernière impératrice (2000) in SPAIN (Editorial Ariel)

La Saga des Windsor (2011) in SPAIN (Santillana ediciones Taurus), ROMANIA (Trei)

La Saga des Romanov (2008) in ROMANIA (Editura Corint) 70.000 copies sold in France

La Saga des reines (2012) in POLAND (Muza) 20.000 copies sold in France

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WORLD WAR I & II

HISTORY OF THE 3rd REICH François DELPLA The long-awaited synthesis While everyone is familiar with the person and the personality of Hitler and his principle lieutenants (Himmler, Goering, Heydrich, Goebbels) the same is not true of the regime he founded and ruled with an iron hand. Apart from the work of Richard Evans (but it is three volumes long), no recent synthesis has been published, particularly by any French historian. François Delpla, the first French biographer of the Führer, has filled this gap, presenting here an exhaustive synthesis dealing with the men, the politics and policies, the society and the institutions of Nazi Germany, well served by a clear and fluid style. A former student of the Ecole Normale supérieure with an agrégation in history, in the past twenty years François Delpla has produced about ten works on the Second World War and Naziism, including Churchill et Hitler (Rocher, 2012).

6 NOVEMBER 2014 450 pp.

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GENERAL HISTORY BATTLES THAT CHANGED HISTORY Arnaud BLIN Through eleven accounts of epic confrontations, from Antiquity to th the 20 century, from Persia to Mexico, an extraordinary history of decisive battles and how they changed the world

11 SEPTEMBER 2014 397 pp.

The stories of «great battles», whether Greek, Roman, Chinese, Persian, English or French, has long been a coveted genre among classical historians. But their main interest has centered upon «great war leaders» such as Alexander, Frederic, or Napoleon. Arnaud Blin takes an entirely different approach: without forgetting the major figures, he concentrates upon the entirety of the battle, from the role of the foot soldier to that of the general, from the question of weapons to that of morale, without neglecting the political, religious, and social dimensions of the conflict. In this approach, the author emphasizes the fundamentally heterogenous character of great military confrontations at the heart of the history of war—in other words, the clash between radically different cultures, countries, peoples or armies, the most striking example being the conflict between Gengis Khan’s nomads and the sedentary Arabs in th the 7 century. The battle of Zama (202 B.C.) saw Rome and Carthage fight for the control of the Mediterranean. At Hattin, in 1187, Crusades faced Moslems, opposed in every way, in a battle that ended the Crusades’ dreams of reconquering the Holy Land. At Tenochtitlan (1519), Cortés sealed the destiny of Aztec civilization. From the battles of Gaugamela (331 B.C.), the Catalaunian Plains (451), Ain Jalut (1260), Lepanto (1571), Lutzen (1632), Borodino (1812) and Stalingrad (1942), there was no turning back. This is a very different history of war, as seen through its decisive battles. Specialist on the history of war and of strategy, Arnaud Blin is the author of several critically acclaimed works, including Iéna (Perrin, 2003), 1648, La paix de Westphalie (Editions Complexe, 2006), Tamerlan (Perrin, 2007) and, with Gérard Chaliand, a Dictionnaire de stratégie militaire (Perrin, 1998). After 30 years in the United States, where he directed a research center in Washington D.C., he now manages several “think tank“ in the area of international security and world governance.

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GENERAL HISTORY WHITE HOUSE SECRETS Nicole BACHARAN and Dominique SIMONNET An enthralling narrative, written like a thriller, revealing the hidden face of American power. The behind-the-scenes history of how American presidents used and abused their power. Based on recently declassified documents, this text reveals the astonishing secrets of the Oval Office.

25 SEPTEMBER 2014 374 pp.

This is where wars were launched, dirty tricks organized, and the fate of millions decided. This is where men tried to save the world, and sometimes succeeded. Considering the impact of its decisions, the White House is among the most important places on the planet and, most assuredly, one of the most secret. Delving into the sources, including confidential papers and recordings of private conversations in the Oval Office, the authors reveal the background story of some of History’s key events. How Thomas Jefferson acted to pull the wool over Napoleon’s eyes, without the knowledge of Congress; why Abraham Lincoln sought to pressure the slaves to go into exile; how, early in the 20th century, a woman governed in the shadows; how Franklin Delano Roosevelt covertly committed himself to participation in the Second World War; the discreet negotiations that convinced Harry Truman to recognize the State of Israel; the degree to which the world came close to an all-out nuclear conflict; Ronald Reagan’s secret pact with Pope John-Paul II; how Barack Obama began a clandestine war worldwide, distributing, every week, permits to kill. Nicole Bacharan is a historian, political scientist, and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University. She is the author of several works on the United States and is often solicited as a commentator on French television and radio. Dominique Simonnet is a writer, journalist, and former Editor in Chief of l’Express, as well as the author of about twenty novels and essays. They co-authored 11-Septembre, le jour du chaos (Perrin), 20.000 copies sold.

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GENERAL HISTORY WHITE HOUSE SECRETS Preface: When the Walls Begin to Speak Chapter 1: Thomas Jefferson’s Trick (1802) How Thomas Jefferson secretly thwarted Bonaparte’s plans to extend his empire in America and, without the knowledge of the American Congress, doubled the surface of the United States in one fell swoop. Chapter 2: Abraham Lincoln’s About-face (1862-1865) How, far from his legend, Abraham Lincoln planned to expel the slaves of America to Africa and Central America and then, confronted with the dreadful Civil War, finally resolved to emancipate them. Chapter 3: The Shadow President (Woodrow Wilson, 1919) How the First Lady secretly took power and governed behind the scenes at the White House, while the American people and their representatives remained in the dark. Chapter 4: Franklin Roosevelt’s Rendez-vous at Sea (1941) How Franklin D. Roosevelt covertly committed himself to fighting the Second World War well before the official declaration, without the knowledge of the American people. Chapter 5: The Little Man from Israel (Harry Truman, 1948) How and with whom Harry Truman conducted discreet negotiations in the Oval Office, before recognizing the State of Israel. Chapter 6: John Kennedy’s Gamble (1962) How President John F. Kennedy prepared for World War III, nonetheless unaware of certain capital information. Chapter 7: Richard Nixon’s Secret Organization (1974) More serious than Watergate, how President Richard Nixon transformed the White House into the headquarters of a criminal network and was caught in his own trap. Chapter 8: Ronald Reagan’s Secret Alliance (1981) How Reagan made a secret pact with Pope John Paul II to end the Cold War and dissolve the Soviet Union. Chapter 9: Bill Clinton’s Little Foibles (1998-1999) How Bill Clinton fell into the trap of an ultraconservative plot, the goal of which was to cause his impeachment and removal from office. Chapter 10: Barack Obama’s Hidden Soldiers (2008-2011) How Barack Obama pursued undeclared wars and organized the tracking of Al Qaeda.

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GENERAL HISTORY A HISTORY OF BERLIN Philippe MEYER A new history of Berlin that allows the reader to understand the city through the great events that established it as the eternal capital of Germany

11 SEPTEMBER 2014 368 pp.

This is a history of Berlin as an extraordinary human adventure, the knowledge of which casts light upon that of contemporary Europe. The history of the city is also that of a great people who acquired an immense and remarkable culture which influenced the past of nearly all of Germany. Berlin was successively a Slavic backwater, then a German town built upon arid land, one that owed its survival to trade and to the indomitable will of the noble family to whom the German emperors granted the city itself and the surrounding area of the province of Brandenburg. This family, the Hohenzollerns, fought their way up the aristocratic ladder, successively as margraves, PrinceElectors, Grand Electors, kings of Prussia, and, ultimately, emperors of Germany. At the same time, the town of Berlin became their capital and that of the vast regions they gradually accumulated, extending from the Baltic territories of Memel all the way to the former Roman domains of the Rhineland, and from the North Sea and the Baltic all the way to the source of the Danube. In 1918, the Second Reich crumbled with the abdication of Wilhelm II. Thus began the tragic saga of Berlin, marked by the Nazi regime, the subsequent destruction of the city in 1945, and its separation into Eastern Soviet and Western democratic sectors, embodied in the notorious Berlin Wall. The fall of the wall led to the reunification of Germany and restored Berlin’s international aura. Philippe Meyer’s works published by Perrin include L’Or du Rhin (2011), histoire d’un fleuve and Baltiques (2013).

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GENERAL HISTORY REMAINING JEWISH Yaël HIRSCH Can one really decide to no longer be a Jew? And, beyond that, can one’s identity be changed? A new, in-depth reflection on the th “Jewish Question” in the 20 century.

6 NOVEMBER 2014 386 p.

With The Invention of the Jewish People in 2008, Shlomo Sand stimulated further reflection on the «Jewish question”. By examining the choice of identity of about thirty major European intellectuals who th sought to convert from Judaïsm to Christianity in the 20 century, this is a work of a similar nature. Its underlying theme is a fruitful reflection on the essential values of our societies, in terms of identity, tolerance, and the place of minorities. For the paths of Henri Bergson, Simone Weil, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Max Jacob, Edith Stein and Etty Hillesum and their conversions cast a blinding light on the essence of European societies. It seems that, regardless of how far they were from their Jewish religious roots, no matter how strong their Christian convictions, all of these thinkers continued to feel Jewish. Since the desire to choose one’s own path is a common impulse among so many of us, tracing the individual and atypical trajectories of illustrious converts offers insight into an understanding of why Jews remain Jews. Even when they are completely detached from the religion, European societies incessantly continue to refer to their Jewishness, and hence to their otherness. Their very being therefore questions the capacity of a society to tolerate difference. Yaël Hirsch holds a doctorate in political science and teaches at Sciences Po in Paris. Her doctoral thesis examined the question of the conversion of Jews to Christianity. She is also director of the Toute la culture cultural site (100,000 hits per month).

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GENERAL HISTORY THE RED DYNASTY Pascal DAYEZ-BURGEON The history of the world’s only “communist monarchy” and of its three sovereign/dictators: Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un of North Korea

16 OCTOBER 2014 320 pp.

In December 2011, Kim Jong-un succeeded his father Kim Jong-il, the latter having, himself, stepped into the shoes of his late father Kim Ilsung in July, 1994, as the new master of Pyongyang. Kim Jong-un’s instant rise to the State’s highest office is living proof that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is, more than ever, the first Red absolute monarchy in history. Such an absurd contradiction would be fascinating were it not that North Korea is also one of the most merciless and dangerous regimes on the face of the planet. Without a doubt, order reigns in Pyongyang, but only due to a regime based on terrorism and concentration camps, one that has never hesitated to starve the North Korean people in order to arm itself with nuclear weapons designed to threaten world peace. The first biography of the three Kims who have unilaterally imposed their respective wills and fancies for three quarters of a century, this book, based upon the most rigorous sources, explains how North Korea has come to this, between endemic violence, perverted ideals, exacerbated nationalism, frenzied absolutism, and generalized terror. The essential and inescapable question of «voluntary servitude» is a constant throughout: are the slaves of the Kim dynasty condemned to live in chains forever? Agrégé in history, former student of the ENA, and diplomat, Pascal Dayez-Burgeon knows Korea intimately, having been France’s representative there from 2001 to 2006. Already the author of Les Coréens (Tallandier, 2011), he is currently assistant director of the Institut des sciences de la communication of the CNRS.

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BIOGRAPHIE S PÉTAIN Bénédicte VERGEZ-CHAIGNON The first French biography of Pétain to appear in thirty years Our knowledge of Marshal Pétain (1856-1951) is often summed up in Verdun, Vichy, his rivalry with de Gaulle, his commuted death sentence, and his reputation as a ladies’ man. This, however, is an in-depth biography which incorporates several new elements and brings a new perspective to the extraordinary and steady rise of an individual who retained his part of mystery. Pétain the orphan was a young man who loved sports, studies, and teaching. August 1914 transformed his destiny. In four years, the colonel on the verge of retirement became head of the French army (while continuing an active love life on the side). Thus began his unique relationship with the French people, which would continue until the summer of 1944 and beyond. The author’s evolving political, military, intellectual, physical and psychological portrait of this controversial figure is strikingly different from the limited dimensions of the traditional perception of Pétain. 28 AUGUST 2014 1050 pp.

By the same author : Les Français au quotidien : 15.000 copies sold

Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon holds a doctorate in history from the Institut d’Études politiques of Paris. Her work on the Second World War began with her collaboration with Daniel Cordier on his monumental biography of Jean Moulin from 1989 to 1999. She is the author of a biography of Pétain’s physician and private secretary, Dr Bernard Ménétrel (Perrin, 2002), and has written a history of Les Vichystorésistants (Perrin, 2008), those who found in Pétain the inspiration for their commitment to resist the Nazis. She has also written several works on the post-war épuration as well as a book on the daily life of the French in the 1940s, co-authored with Eric Alary (Perrin, 2006). COMMENTS IN THE PRESS ABOUT PETAIN : "The strength of Mme Vergez-Chaignon's book is to advance step by step, starting from the childhood of this man who devoted his life to the army, as though she did not know the final outcome and using original documents, often previously unpublished, in particular, the personal papers of Pétain." –– Le Figaro.fr

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BIOGRAPHIE S LOUIS XV Jean-Christian PETITFILS A remarkable reign of great contrasts, a secretive personality, reevaluated by the finest biographer of the kings of modern France

6 NOVEMBER 2014 800 pp.

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At the age of five, in 1715, the last surviving descendant of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse succeeds his great-grandfather, in dramatic circumstances, both for the family and the nation. After the regency of Philippe d’Orléans and the ministry of the aged Cardinal de Fleury, Louis XV finally assumes his duties, with all the reluctance typical of a temperament inclined to flee responsibility. He is still the Beloved, the handsomest man in France. At loggerheads with the Jansenists and the Parlements within France, in conflict with Austria, then Prussia and England abroad, the King confronts seemingly overwhelming events with intelligence and, sometimes, authority, as France and its neighbors change immeasurably in a mere half century. Whatever their actual role, the «favorites»-- his successive mistresses at Court--marked the image of the Very Christian monarch, constantly under pressure from various cliques in his entourage. And yet, in a century when the mind of the public is in a state of rapid evolution, when new ideas abound, Louis XV remains the most prestigious sovereign of Europe, with Versailles the incomparable, dazzling center of his Court. All this until his death in 1774, but at this time, after a 59-year long reign, the monarchy seems solid and stable, despite the clouds that have begun to appear on the horizon. With this work, Jean-Christian Petitfils closes the biographical cycle of the four Louis who reigned over France from 1610 until 1792. Long awaited and unchallenged, his Louis XV, fruit of exhaustive research and well served by a limpid style, is the crowning achievement of an endeavor begun over twenty years ago and establishes him definitively as the finest connoisseur of the Ancien Régime in France.

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BIOGRAPHIE S ADMIRAL HORTHY Catherine HOREL Admiral Horthy’s life story (1868-1957) merges with the history of Hungary during the inter-war period. How could a man who had an unremarkable career as a naval officer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ultimately leave such an indelible mark on the history of his country and that of Europe?

4 SEPTEMBER 2014 480 pp.

This work presents an analysis unbiased by political considerations, thus filling an important historiographical gap.

The Horthy regime that governed Hungary from 1920 to 1944 was no doubt authoritarian and reactionary in many ways, but it was a far cry from the fascism of Italy and Germany. The circumstances that led to its taking power in 1919 are put back into perspective here, notably with a re-evaluation of the role played by the Allies. A good part of the work is devoted to the political specificity of this regime. Horthy was no ideologist, and even less a charismatic leader. Did he imagine he would re-establish royalty in being crowned regent or by passing power on to his son? A Calvinist, Horthy emphasized traditional Christian and, paradoxically, rather Catholic values. Though his image was omnipresent, he did not impose a personality cult. The years that led to the Second World War, which Hungary entered only in 1941, were dominated by his hostility towards the USSR and by the Jewish question, and here, once again, we must examine the ambiguous role Horthy played. He consented to the adoption of antisemitic legislation, but he frankly opposed the deportations that began when the Germans entered the country in March, 1944 and refused to deport the Jews of Budapest. This, among other reasons, saved him from being indicted before the Nuremberg tribunal. A last question explored in this work: how did Horthy arrive at his home in exile in Portugal, where he died in February, 1957? A researcher at the CNRS from 1995 to 2006, research director since then (UMR IRICE, Université de Paris I), Catherine Horel is a specialist on Central Europe. Her works include, notably, Cette Europe qu’on dit centrale. Des Habsbourg à l’intégration européenne, 1815-2004 (Beauchesne, 2009) and a Histoire de Budapest (Fayard, 1999).

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BIOGRAPHIE S QUEEN ZENOBIA Annie and Maurice SARTRE A legendary figure whose true story, finally reconstituted, is no less extraordinary than the myth. Like Cleopatra, Queen Zenobia is that sovereign of Antiquity whose rd myth has ensured her fame. For a few years during the 3 century A.D., this woman politician, who did not have a male partner, played an important role during the period when Syria was caught between Rome’s wobbling power and the military pressure of the Sassanid Persians. Her dominant presence in the Middle East made her selfappointment as empress almost natural; surrounded by a brilliant court of extensive influence, for a while she made Palmyra one of the centers of power and intelligence. After the destruction of Palmyra in 273, she rapidly became a legend, both in Western literary and artistic tradition and in Arab historiography. The authors examine, thanks to their own archeological research, different aspects of the figure of Zenobia, the political and cultural environment she lived in and helped to shape, and the ancient and multifaceted exploitation of her myth. 2 OCTOBER 2014 352 pp.

Maurice Sartre is a professor emeritus of Ancient History at the Université de Tours. First president of the scientific council of the Rendez-vous de l’histoire of Blois, he is a member of the editorial committee of the review L’Histoire. An editor of the body of Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, he is the author of D’Alexandrie à Zénobie. Histoire du Levant antique (Fayard, 2001), Histoires grecques (Seuil, 2006) and, with his wife and co-author Annie Sartre, Palmyre, la cité des caravanes (Gallimard, 2008). Annie Sartre is a professor of Ancient history at the Université d’Artois and a specialist on the Middle East and on the study and interpretation of ancient Greek inscriptions. Her work concentrates in particular on funereal monuments and prominent figures of ancient Syria.

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BIOGRAPHIE S THEODOSIUS Bertrand LANÇON A little-known and controversial ruler, the last «great» emperor of Roman Antiquity, resituated in the context of his times and his own truth.

9 OCTOBER 2014 300 pp.

The author’s audacious thesis is that Theodosius abandoned the religious powers traditionally held by Roman emperors since Augustus, thereby creating the sketchy beginnings of a distinct relationship between emperor and bishops based upon their respective roles and the embryon of the separation of Church and State.

Theodosius was a Spanish military commander who ruled over the Eastern Roman Empire for fifteen years (379-395) while retaining tutelary authority over the Western Empire from 383 to 395. He was the first reigning Roman emperor to have been baptized as a Catholic Christian (as defined by the Council of Nicea of 325). The portrait of Theodosius most current today is one crafted by the ideologies of his descendants, who offer two very different images. For some, he is Theodosius the Great—the title granted him at the Council of Chalcedon in 451—for he is the emperor who had the temples closed and put an end to the pagan cults, who punished apostates and those who opposed Nicean Catholicism as heretics. All this he accomplished along with his victory over the barbarians and usurpers of the Empire. For others, he is the autocratic emperor who put an end to the religious freedom established by Constantine in the Edict of Milan of 313, who, in successive edicts, silenced the Romans who were not Catholics, and a bloodthirsty emperor at that. Theodosius was no doubt at the inception of Catholicism’s establishment as the Roman State religion. But the image of the emperor bound, even hampered, by his baptism in his exercise of power, who did his best to find a political means of coexistence with the bishops, the man at the head of an empire experiencing an unprecedented intellectual flowering, is overshadowed by this fact. And, beyond religious considerations, his role as a Spaniard, a general and son of a general, a victorious military leader who restored peace with the Persians and the barbarians through diplomacy, has remained in the background too. Bertrand Lançon, a professor of Roman history at the Université de Limoges, is the author of several works on late Antiquity, notably a biography of Constantine (Armand Colin, 2012).

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BIOGRAPHIE S ISABELLA The Catholic Marie-France SCHMIDT An exemplary sovereign whose political and administrative work, thereafter continued and developed by Charles V, would lend an entirely new dimension to Spain.

23 OCTOBER 2014 350 pp.

Isabella the Catholic (1451-1504), one of the most famous queens of Spain, was not destined to occupy the throne. Only after a long civil war with her half-brother Henry IV and the death of her older brother Alphonse did she legitimately accede to power in Castille in 1474. She had not been prepared to assume such power, yet she exercised it with an authority and competence recognized by all, transforming her country into one of the most powerful in the world. Her marriage to Ferdinand, heir to the kingdom of Aragon, was significant in furthering her plans and ambitions. The couple, known to history as the Catholic Kings, enjoyed an immense aura. But Isabella the Catholic’s foremost ambition was to unify the Spanish States politically and religiously in a smooth transition to form a single nation. Isabella introduced Spain to modernity, not only with administrative reform, but also by opening the country up to international commerce. Spain emerged from isolation and began to trade, not only with European countries, but soon with the lands of an unknown world. She was determined to give Spain an international stature and to create a counterbalance to the hegemony of France. Her successor, Charles V, would take up and develop this project, making Spain the most powerful country in the world. By the time of Isabella the Catholic’s death, a new Spain had been born, no longer withdrawn but increasingly dominant and intent upon fully assuming its role in the concert of European nations. Agrégé in Spanish, honorary lecturer in Spanish studies at the Université de Paris IV Sorbonne, among Marie-France Schmidt’s works are Ignace de Loyola (Editions du Rocher, 2000), La Duchesse d’Albe (Albin Michel, 2002), Goya (Gallimard, Folio, 2009), Isabelle II d’Espagne (Pygmalion, 2011) and Christophe Colomb (Gallimard, Folio, 2011).

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BIOGRAPHIE S BENEDICT XV Yves CHIRON The Pope of peace

6 NOVEMBER 2014 350 pp.

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Benedict XV, of the prophetic name (Giacomo Della Chiesa), became rd pope at a crucial moment of history, on September 3 , 1914. Universally praised at his death in 1922, he was unjustifiably forgotten thereafter. During the Great War, his voice rose above the melée. Contrary to flourishing patriotic exaltations and battle fervor, he alone called the conflict a «horrible slaughter that dishonors Europe”, “the suicide of civilized Europe”. Not content to simply deplore it, he did his best to stop it through humanitarian actions on behalf of the populations of both opposing camps. Most governments misread this impartiality: Clemenceau called him the «pape boche» (“Kraut pope”), and German General Ludendorff referred to him as the “französisch Papst” (“French pope”). After the war, he had great plans marked by a vision of the long-term. He felt that the national minorities of Europe should not be humiliated, and he contended that the Armenians, to whom he had extended all assistance in his power during the genocide of 1915, deserved their own State. He supported local rather than imported culture for the mission countries, in line with his desire to see them eventually establish autonomous churches. The author has closely examined many archival sources (in particular the secret Vatican archives and the French diplomatic archives) and refers extensively to the diary of Carlo Monti, an Italian civil servant and childhood friend of Benedict XV. Received at the Vatican on 175 occasions, after each audience Monti scrupulously noted the content of his conversations with the Pope. Yves Chiron, director of the Dictionnaire de biographie française, is a specialist on the modern papacy. His biographies of Pious IX (Editions Clovis, 1995), Pious XI (Via Romana, 2013), and Paul VI (Via Romana, 2008) have been translated into several languages.

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BIOGRAPHIE S MARIE-ANTOINETTE André CASTELOT The benchmark of Marie Antoinette, a global best seller for over a half century André Castelot’s Marie-Antoinette is not only the greatest of his innumerable successes but undoubtedly remains the best seller of all biographies, regardless of period or personality. Nearly a million copies have been sold in bookstores, to which one must add its amazing success in English translation (450,000 copies sold). The precision, the clarity, the erudition and the very lively style of this great writer of history have made this work a classic and a reference, undeniably of lasting topicality and interest. André Castelot (1911-2004) is the author of several successful biographies including Henri IV (2005, last edition), Napoléon Bonaparte (1997, last edition), La reine Margot (1999, last edition), Marie de Médicis (1999, last edition), Madame de Maintenon (1996), and Diane, Henri et Catherine(1997), all published by Perrin.

9 NOVEMBER 2014 588 pp. New Edition

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Napoléon Bonaparte : 45.000 copies sold

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BIOGRAPHIE S CAROLINE BONAPARTE Florence de BAUDUS Napoleon in the feminine. The biography of Napoleon’s sister

13 NOVEMBER 2014 400 pp.

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Grande Duchesse of Berg in 1806, Queen of Naples two years later, Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon’s youngest sister, played an active role at the side of her husband, Murat, whom she married in 1800. After Murat left in a futile attempt to join the Emperor during the Hundred Days, she did all she could to stay in power but was finally forced into exile by the Allies. Posterity has dealt with her cruelly, and historians picture her as ambitious and egotistical. Setting all judgment aside, the author guides us through the dazzling ascension of Caroline and her family, all the way through their equally meteoric fall. In contrast to her sisters and brothers, Caroline married for love, and the union lasted. Gifted with true political intelligence, she was the one who was most like Napoleon, which is the reason she finally opposed him. She wanted to be queen, and she assumed the position with a seriousness, wisdom, and authority her brothers never possessed. She wanted to remain queen—in such an incomparable context, why shouldn’t she have wished it? For the twenty-four years following her husband’s execution and the loss of her kingdom, she lived very quietly, obeying the will of the Austrian victor, but fighting to save the inheritance of her four children. During this period, Caroline had to confront her relations with her family, their problems of inheritance, the persecution of the French, Spanish and Neapolitan sovereigns which prevented them from moving freely about Europe, and her worries as a mother, knowing that her sons were far from her and capable of getting into trouble. She demonstrated exemplary courage during the long illness that finally cost her her life, continuing to charm the finest of Florentine society that flocked to her salon. Florence de Baudus, author of several works, whose ancestor was tutor to Queen Caroline’s sons, consulted family papers as well as documents from national and diplomatic archives, in particular Caroline’s often unpublished correspondence, in order to create a portrait that differs considerably from those based on popular assumptions.

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MASTERS OF WAR COLLECTION MACARTHUR François KERSAUDY The latest title of the successful Maîtres de Guerre (Masters of War) collection and the first biography of the most eccentric of American officers, General Douglas MacArthur.

25 SEPTEMBER 2014 300 pp.

• The works of François Kersaudy are best sellers • “Maîtres de Guerre” is a well-known and widely-followed collection, with between 5.000 to 8.000 copies sold per title • Over 100 illustrations, some of them previously unpublished

We can count the great strategists of the Second World War on the fingers of one hand. The first two are incontestably Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur, the latter far and away the most eccentric and flamboyant. In 1918, he was already a general on the Western front in France, accompanying troops in a moppingup operation in the trenches wearing a two-meter-long mauve scarf his mother had knit and armed solely with a swagger stick. Three decades later, at the summit of the military hierarchy during the Korean War, he commanded the United Nations troops of fifteen countries and was a proponent of using the atomic weapon on the Chinese. In the interim, this great and suicidally courageous leader was in charge of the conquest of Japan in the South Pacific and subsequently brilliantly organized the country’s rehabilitation as a modern State. Emperor Hiro Hito himself remarked, “Admiral Perry opened the gates of Japan to America, and General MacArthur opened the heart of America to Japan.” A firebrand at war, a genius of strategy with an impossible character and an execrable politician, a benevolent autocrat and a subtle diplomat, Douglas MacArthur th soared through the first half of the 20 century like a meteor, leaving his own indelible imprint on its three major wars. François Kersaudy has taught at Oxford University and the Université de Paris I. His special field is the Second World War, of which he is a renowned historian. He is also an accomplished biographer, with Hermann Goering (Perrin, 2009), Hitler (Perrin, 2011), among other works, to his credit.

By the same author: Les Secrets du IIIe Reich (2013): 20.000 copies sold Hermann Goering (2013) : 20.000 copies sold

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MASTERS OF WAR COLLECTION

MASTERS OF WAR COLLECTION A highly illustrated series that looks at major historical figures of the twentieth century in their role as military leaders. The photographs and maps directly accompany the texts all written by specialists of military history.

HITLER

STALINE François KERSAUDY

François KERSAUDY

May 2011 – 265 pp.

May 2012 – 275 pp.

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VON MANSTEIN Pierre SERVENT

Yannis KADARI

May 2011 – 240 pp.

May 2013 – 280 pp.

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May 2014 – 280 pp. MONTGOMERY Antoine CAPET

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS THE CENTURY OF BLOOD 1914-2O14, TWENTY WARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD EDITED BY EMMANUEL HECHT AND PIERRE SERVENT The twenty wars that changed the world. This book recounts “the world of yesterday”, as Stefan Zweig put it, in order to understand that of today, through the transformations of war. Once more “Man is wolf to man”, the Latin aphorism cited by Hobbes, is proven true. This unprecedented work presents an analysis of war in twenty chapters, written by renowned historians (Jean-Yves Le Naour, Olivier Wieviorka, and Jean-Louis Margolin, among others) and special correspondents of L’Express (Marc Epstein, Vincent Hugeux), experts and, most often, witnesses to the conflicts they covered. In the manner of Les Derniers Jours des Dictateurs, historic excellence and journalistic vigor combine to offer the reader a riveting book.

15 MAY 2014 368 pp.

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• The contributors are all major historians and renowned authors whose works have each met with critical and commercial success in France and abroad

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The conflicts in question are those that caused worldwide upheaval: the two world wars, of course, but also some forgotten conflicts, such as the Russian civil war (1917-1922) which brought Lenin to power and contributed to the radicalization of his regime; the Sino-Japanese war (1932-1945), antechamber of the Second World War; the Russian invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989) that precipitated the fall of the USSR, and the Iran-Iraq war whose long-term effects turned the Middle East upside down and aggravated the oil crisis, giving birth to the current crisis. A selective bibliography at the end of each chapter and a chronology, with commentary, complete the whole. CONTENTS 1. The First World War: Baptism of a century (1914-1918) by Jean-Yves LE NAOUR 2. The Russian Civil War (1918-1920) by Jean-Christophe BUISSON 3. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) by Grégoire KAUFFMANN 4. The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) by Jean-Louis MARGOLIN 5. A brief history of the Second World War (1939-1945) by Olivier WIEVIORKA 6. The War of Indochina or the twilight of the French Empire (1946-1954) by Pierre JOURNOUD 7. The forgotten war: Korea (1950-1953) by Ivan CADEAU 8. The Algerian War (1954-1962) by Pierre PELLISSIER 9. The Vietnam War (1964-1975) by Pierre JOURNOUD 10. From one war to another: From the Six Day War (1967) to Yom Kippur (1973) by Emmanuel HECHT 11. The wars in Lebanon (1975-1990 and 2006) by Dominique LAGARDE 12. The USSR caught in the Afghan trap (December 1979 - February 1989) by Marc EPSTEIN 13. The Iran-Iraq War: the first Gulf War (1980-1988) by Pierre RAZOUX 14. The Falklands War (1982) by Emmanuel HECHT 15. The Gulf War (1990-1991) by Dominique LAGARDE

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES JACQUES HEERS A fresh and synthetic look at the successive expeditions to the Middle East known as the “Crusades” (1096 - 1229). The last book of an essential medieval historian. Jacques Heers, who studied with Fernand Braudel and was Georges Duby’s assistant, powerfully stimulated the historiographical debate throughout his career. In A History of Crusades he writes: “To speak of the past… we often use words that men of the period never employed: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Romanesque art, Gothic art… The term “crusade” is another example of this curious exercise in poor methodology that consists of choosing terms or expressions different from those of contemporaries… Most of these [expressions], deliberately in contradiction with reality, are not coincidental, but, on the contrary, are chosen on purpose by the intellectual elite to dictate to children and the wider public a particular way of analysing and understanding events”.

20 FEBRUARY 2014 336 pp.

THE LAST BOOK OF A GREAT HISTORIAN

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Thanks to the author's profound knowledge of the Middle Ages, the many myths about these 'holy wars' are here confronted with the reality the historian had come to know through his research: we learn of the huge cost in time and money, many sovereigns were absent from their countries for years at a time; the lack of unity of purpose over the two centuries of expeditions; the widespread ignorance of Islam among the crusaders and much more. This is a work that is brilliant, masterful, and always original. Jacques Heers, the French historian whose specialty was the Middle Ages, died recently. He was a professor at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines at the Université de Paris X Nanterre, and then director of medieval studies at Paris IV. Among his notable works published by Perrin are Le Moyen-Âge, une imposture (1992); La Première Croisade (1995); Gilles de Rais (1994); Les Négriers en terre d’islam (2003) and La Naissance du capitalisme au Moyen-Âge (2012).

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RIGHTS SALES FOR JACQUES HEERS’ PREVIOUS WORKS: • Le Moyen Age, une imposture (1992) in Portugal (Asa/Leya) and in Spain (Critica) • La Première Croisade (1995) in Spain (Andres Bello Editorial) • Gilles de Rais (1994) in Spain (A.Machado Libros) • Les Barbaresques (2001) in UK (Greenhill Books), in Italy (Salerno) and in Spain (Ariel) • Les Négriers en terre d’islam (2003) in Portugal (Editora Peixoto Neto)

Heers was at the origin of historiographical challenges whose richness is proof of their importance, about the city, slavery, and the idea of the political party. –– Le Monde His disappearance is that of a courageous man with an independent mind, one who never hesitated to shake up taboos and preconceived ideas. –– Lectures françaises Far from university history departments that have been gangrened today by sociology and anthropology, Jacques Heers’ text, in the author’s characteristically clear and incisive style, successfully navigates between micro-history and macro-history, familiarizing us with this spirit of Christianity that irrigated the activities of European peoples in every domain up until the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. –– L’Homme nouveau Renowned medievalist, honorary professor of the Sorbonne, a specialist on cities, Jacques Heers refutes a number of clichés, including the one according to which the Middle Ages was an era of obscurantism. –– Spectacles du monde Once again Jacques Heers demonstrates his amazing erudition and his extraordinary pedagogical sense, solidly supported by his source material. –– Le Figaro Histoire about La Naissance du capitalisme au Moyen-Âge

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ZHUKOV THE MAN WHO CONQUERED HITLER JEAN LOPEZ AND LASHA OTKHMEZURI Among several remarkable officers who led Stalin’s armies to victory during the Second World War, Marshal Zhukov stands out as the man who conquered Hitler. More than a biography, the authors bring the 20th century Soviet Union alive through the amazing story of a man who knew and withstood every Soviet regime during the 8 decades of his life.

5 SEPTEMBER 2013 672 pp.

• The first complete biography of Zhukov, the man who conquered Hitler, examining his entire military career as well as his personal life. • The authors form an unusually effective team bringing together the talents of a bestselling historian and a former Georgian diplomat with the valuable network in the ex-Soviet Union • Based on research in recently accessible archives of the former USSR.

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The collapse of communism led to a windfall for historians in the form of vast archives of the Soviet Union that had formerly been inaccessible. The authors have plunged into a wealth of material, beginning in the old peasant Russia of Czar Nicholas II. They have followed the path of a barely literate soldier buffeted by the great storms of history—the First World War and the Russian revolution of 1917. The young cavalry officer Zhukov proved his mettle during the civil war and miraculously escaped Stalin’s bloody purges that weakened the army and decimated its upper echelon officer corps. Then the Second World War broke out, and Zhukov found himself on every major battle front, from the counter-offensive of Moscow in December of 1941 to the victory at Stalingrad, from Kursk to the capture of Berlin. His important role continued after the war, when he was twice relegated to severe disgrace, saved Nikita Khrushchev, and attempted to effect in-depth reforms within the Soviet army. This work reveals the undoubtedly exceptional character of the man and of his actions, but it does not gloss over Zhukov’s immense failings, his violence, his shortcomings and his errors, nor the monstrous Stalinist machine of repression he did not hesitate to use to his advantage. Fascinated by the D-Day landings and the “liberators“, it is far too easy to forget that World War II was won on the Eastern front. Zhukov was one of its great artisans. The two authors have granted him his rightful place in the military history of the Second World War, at the very forefront. Jean Lopez, founder and current editor of Guerres et Histoire, has carved out his place among historians as the author of several works on the Eastern front, including Koursk : les quarante jours qui ont ruiné la Wehrmacht (Economica, 2008 – 7,000 copies sold), and Grandeur et misère de l’armée rouge (Éditions du Seuil, 2011). Lasha Otkhmezuri, former diplomat, is an editorial advisor at Guerres et Histoire. He speaks Russian, Georgian, English and French fluently. His contacts in the world of the former USSR have contributed immensely to an original perception of Zhukov and his actions which incorporates a Soviet point of view.

COMMENTS IN THE PRESS ABOUT JOUKOV: The finest biography and the most ground-breaking currently available, not only in our language but in all others, for it goes even further in analysis and revelations than the best Anglo-Saxon specialists, including David Glantz. Neither an apology nor an evidential trial, this work reads like a novel and, from now on, will be indispensable to anyone who has a passion for Soviet history and, especially, for the history of the Second World War. –– Guerres & Histoire One cannot deny the pleasure in reading journalist Jean Lopez’s and former diplomat Lasha Otkhmezuri’s Joukov, shaped in its entirety by the concrete substance of war. Through the millefeuille of narratives and testimonies, written between 1945 and 2013 and decrypted here, one is better able to comprehend the enormous and therapeutic importance of this treatise on the war in Russia. –– Le Monde A brilliant biography. The pages of Jean Lopez, a specialist on the battles of Stalingrad and of Kursk, and his co-author have the profundity of a true novel. –– Le Figaro littéraire

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR THE FIRST GULF WAR, 1980-1988 PIERRE RAZOUX An essential work, based on the unpublished archival sources, by one of the finest Middle East specialists today. It clearly sets out what was at stake in the Middle East in the early 80s and relates that history to the current geopolitical situation. Whether considering Iran’s nuclear power plans or political crises in Iran and Iraq, it is impossible to understand the situation in the Gulf today without comprehending the complex mechanisms, the deep-rooted hatreds, the implacable power struggles, and the persistent frustrations that are the direct result of this ruthless war. The images of the Iran-Iraq War that drenched the Persian Gulf region in blood from 1980 to 1988 were so shocking that they remain in the minds of all: the sacrifice of child soldiers, trenches awash in blood, the corpses of the gassed, cities in ruin and oil wells aflame.

12 SEPTEMBER 2013 624 pp.

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Explains the situation that prevails in the Gulf today, whether the Iranian nuclear crisis or the behind-the-scenes power struggles in Tehran and Baghdad.

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The author is a specialist in military strategy as well as the Middle East, often solicited by French and foreign media. His Tsahal – Nouvelle histoire de l’armée israélienne sold 9 000 copies.

This war, the longest in the 20th century, was the result of an unyielding confrontation between Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollah Khomeini. This multi-disciplinary work that treats both history and international relations recounts in detail the dreadful conflict. The author also presents an analysis of the attitude of the oil monarchies towards their neighbors and towards Russia, China, and the West. He had access to primary sources that have never before been exploited, including the famous “Saddam Hussein tapes”, and has also interviewed many of the protagonists directly involved in the conflict. And he examines, in detail, the numerous shadowy affairs--Irangate, attacks in France, and kidnappings in Lebanon—that are closely linked to this war, the most murderous the Middle East has ever seen. The Gulf War demonstrated the importance of the concept of security of energy supplies and compelled many nations of the West to establish a lasting presence in the Gulf region. In military terms, it was an experimental lab for the honing of innovative strategic tactics as well as a testing ground for the most modern weaponry. Pierre Razoux is a research director at the Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire (IRSEM). Well versed in international relations, an acknowledged Middle East specialist, he has written several works considered references on contemporary conflicts and on the Israeli-Arab situation, in particular Tsahal – Nouvelle histoire de l’armée israélienne (Perrin, 2006, 2008).

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The particularity of this book is that it is based on the use of heretofore unexploited Iraqi sources, retrieved by American forces during the 2003 campaign. (...) This book is also remarkable for the length of time needed for research - ten years of work in the capitals concerned by the conflict - but also by the use, for the first time, of Iranian sources. (...) Understanding the divisions in the Middle East today necessitates a return to the battlefields that border Iran and Iraq. –– Le Monde

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS SEVEN WOMEN LYDIE SALVAYRE Seven fascinating portraits of women who have left their indelible mark upon the literary history of the past two centuries, with emphasis on their inner lives by one of France’s exceptional writers. Seven women. Seven emblematic figures of the literature to which they completely devoted their lives. Each was compelled by a passionate impulse to write, a fascination with the written word that drove some to suicide. Unusual, demanding, they drowned their personal pain in their works. Their daily lives seemed to each drab and insignificant—pushed to the extreme, as in the case of Sylvie Plath, tragic. But isn’t this very “dailyness” what now marks their writing in the context of history? The history of pre-war Paris, or that of the Roaring Twenties, or the history of Stalinist Russia? How can one reinterpret a work through the very life of its author?

4 APRIL 2013 240 pp.

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10 000 copies already sold and the title is short-listed for the Prix Renaudot 2013! Paperback rights sold in auction. Excellent articles in the French and Swiss press (Le Monde, Elle, Le Temps, La Vie, MarieClaire….) One of the most respected writers of contemporary French literature The critical success of Lydie Salvayre's previous books. Lydie Salvayre's work has been translated into 17 languages.

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Lydie Salvayre sets herself to the portraitist’s task, much as Cioran and Sainte-Beuve so magnificently did, by choosing writers whose works influenced her own life and inspired her own works: Emily Brönte (18181848), Colette (1873-1954), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Djuna Barnes (1892-1982), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Ingeborg Bachmann (19261973) and Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Disturbingly unconventional, sometimes scandalous, in their own way each tells of a world that caused her suffering, yet one she helped to shape. Now their works are literary monuments. Lydie Salvayre brings each of these women to life, writing of their lives, their beauty, their outrageousness and their rebellion, as well as their dark side, their despair. Lydie Salvayre is the author of about fifteen novels, including La Compagnie des spectres (Seuil, 1997) which was awarded the Prix Novembre and was elected ”Best Book of the Year” by literary review Lire in 1997. Her novel BW (Seuil, 2009) won the Prix François Billetdoux. Her works have been translated into twenty languages and adapted for theatre or enacted as concert-readings. PRAISE FOR SEVEN WOMEN : It is to prolong the pleasure she takes in the constant re-reading of their works that Lydie Salvayre slowly became interested in their lives, and having delved into their individual biographies, she discovers that for each of them, writing and living is one and the same thing. –– Le Monde This essay, devoted to women who are inconsolable and awkward in the business of life, is gorged with vitality. There is something essential in these pages. Going back and forth between their biographies and their work, she [Lydie Salvayre] produces not tombs but odes. Moving. –– Elle The novelist paints the portrait of seven women of letters, with tragic destinies and illtreatment from men…acid and delectable. –– Lire They number seven, like Bluebeard’s wives, but they are bolder, cleverer and crazier. Lydie Salvayre devotes to each a passionate mini-biography, with keys to these often tragic but luminous lives. –– Marie-Claire A book to nibble at. A book to devour. A book to keep. A book to underline. Lydie Salvayre is never as good as when she writes short texts and her elegance of style and turn of phrase do wonders. –– Le Bien public

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS GORBACHEV BERNARD LECOMTE A major historical biography of Mikhaïl Gorbachev, the main figure behind the fall of communism, written by L’Express magazine’s Russian speaking permanent special correspondent, who was in Moscow for fifteen years and throughout Gorbachev’s presidency. How did Gorbachev, not really an intimate of the political circles that united his predecessors, make it all the way to the Kremlin? Did he really wish to put an end to the most compelling ideology of the century, or was he overwhelmed by the events that his actions provoked? Bernard Lecomte offers precise and sometimes surprising answers to the question that still divides historians. The fruit of fifteen years of interviews with the main political actors of the period, including Gorbachev himself, the study of innumerable archived documents, and three years of writing, journalist and historical writer Bernard Lecomte’s fascinating book tells the life story of one of the giants th of the late 20 century.

6 MARCH 2014 384 pp.

• The great success, both critical and public, of his remarkable biography of Jean-Paul II, the other figure who immeasurably influenced the fall of communism (45,000 copies sold in France, 9 translations into foreign languages). • His mastery of the historical narrative and his style are the author’s tools for the construction of a suspenseful and moving biography.

History will forever remember him as Mikhaïl Gorbachev, the man who dug the grave of communism. Arriving at the head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, the (comparatively) young successor of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev had two goals: to modernize the communist system, and to prevent the break-up of the Soviet empire. The reforms he effected with these twin objectives in mind--»perestroïka»-ended, against his will, with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the crumbling of the USSR in 1991. Nearly 25 years after the fall of the Wall, Mikhaïl Gorbachev, laureate of the Nobel Prize for Peace, is an ambiguous and endearing figure, but one who remains something of a mystery. Permanent special correspondent of L’Express magazine in Moscow for 15 years, Bernard Lecomte witnessed, day after day, the saga of Gorbachev at the head of the Soviet Union and is one of the best specialists on the “Gorbachev era” in Europe. His knowledge of Russian, essential to the task, facilitated access to the archives of the period and made possible many important and informative interviews. He is the author of Jean-Paul II (Gallimard, 2003), Les Secrets du Vatican (Perrin, 2009 – 25.000 copies sold in France, 11 translations into foreign languages) and Les Derniers Secrets du Vatican (Perrin, 2012 – 15.000 copies sold).

COMMENTS IN THE PRESS ABOUT GORBACHEV : Few historic figures have marked the end of the last century as much as Mikhail Gorbachev. Bernard Lecomte, journalist and writer, has published a biography of the last "red Czar" that reads like a novel. –– Le Figaro

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