France: a history from Gaul to De Gaulle. John Julius Norwich. 2018.

From the chieftain determined to stop Julius Caesar’s invasions to Charlemagne seizing the imperial crown from the hands of a shocked pope; from the disasters of the Crusades to the successes of the Sun King; and from the storming of the Church Bastille to the French army travelling in a convoy of taxis to a First World War battle, France takes the reader on a highly entertaining, often eye-opening, whistle-stop tour through two thousand years of history.