The New York Review of Books

Can You Really Become French?

April 9, 2009

How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789 by Patrick Weil, translated from the French by Catherine Porter

Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France by Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse

A Field Guide to the Birders

November 6, 2008

Of a Feather: A Brief Historyof American Birding by Scott Weidensaul

Flights Against the Sunset: Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son by Kenn Kaufman

Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal

The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathan Rosen

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott

A Patriot for Pétain?

April 3, 2008

Vichy vs. the Nazis

March 6, 2008

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France by Simon Kitson, translated from the French by Catherine Tihanyi

Inside the Panic

November 22, 2007

Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond

It Wasn’t Just Morale

February 15, 2007

Handing Over Jews

January 11, 2007

The Jew Hater

November 16, 2006

Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France by Carmen Callil

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen

The Trial of Maurice Papon

December 16, 1999

What’s Wrong with ‘Fascism’?

February 20, 1997

The Uses of Fascism

November 28, 1996

Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur

A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 by Stanley G. Payne

Radicals

June 23, 1994

The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution by Zeev Sternhell, with Mario Sznajder, and Maia Asheri, translated by David Maisel

De Gaulle and His Myth

April 23, 1992

Tricks of Memory

November 7, 1991

The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

The Company of Owls

December 21, 1989

North American Owls: Biology and Natural History by Paul A. Johnsgard, with watercolors by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Owls of the Northern Hemisphere by Karel H. Voous, illustrated by Ad Cameron

The Friendly Fascist

April 27, 1989

Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944 by Paul Jankowski

The Divided Liberal

March 2, 1989

Tocqueville: A Biography by André Jardin, translated by Lydia Davis, with Robert Hemenway

Tocqueville and the Two Democracies by Jean-Claude Lamberti, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

The Lesson of the Dreyfus Case

February 27, 1986

The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin

Mr. France

June 13, 1985

Pierre Mendès France by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch

‘The Last King of France’

February 14, 1985

Pétain: Hero or Traitor, The Untold Story by Herbert R. Lottman

Force de Frappe

April 26, 1984

Charles de Gaulle: A Biography by Don Cook

Living with the Enemy

June 16, 1983

French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb

The Planistes

April 14, 1983

Founding Uncle

January 20, 1983

Léon Blum by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch

Did the Resistance Matter?

August 14, 1980

Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance by David Schoenbrun

Not a Chaser

March 6, 1980

Web-Footed Gentry

December 20, 1979

The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds by William T. Cooper, by Joseph M. Forshaw

The Herons of the World by James Hancock, by Hugh Elliott, paintings by Robert Gillmor, by Peter Hayman

Rails of the World by S. Dillon Ripley, paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne

Manual of Neo-Tropical Birds, Volume I by Emmett Reid Blake

Eleanora’s Falcon: Adaptations to Prey and Habitat in a Social Raptor by Hartmut Walter

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region by John Bull, by John Farrand Jr.

Western Region by Miklos D.F. Udvardy

Papa Europe

November 23, 1978

Memoirs by Jean Monnet, translated by Richard Mayne

The Mess of Things

September 28, 1978

France 1848-1945 Volume I: Ambition, Love and Politics Volume II: Intellect, Taste and Anxiety by Theodore Zeldin

The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan by Stephen A. Schuker