كتب نابليون

• Emsley, Clive. Napoleon 2003, succinct coverage of life, France and empire; little on warfare
• Englund, Steven. Napoleon: A Political Life. (2004). the best political biography excerpt and text search
• Fisher, Herbert. Napoleon (1913) old classic online edition free
• Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO: 3 vol 2006)
• Grab, Alexander. Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. (2003), maps; excellent synthesis
• Harold, J. Christopher. The Age of Napoleon (1963) popular history stressing empire and diplomacy
• Markham, Felix. Napoleon 1963. online edition
• McLynn, Frank. Napoleon: A Biography (2003) stress on military
• Nafziger, George F. Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era. 2002.
• Nicholls, David. Napoleon: A Biographical Companion. 1999.
• Thompson, J. M. Napoleon Bonaparte: His Rise and Fall (1954), scholarly, well-balanced in topics, but pro-Britain

الترميم: 1815-1870

• Agulhon, Maurice. The Republican Experiment, 1848–1852 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1983) excerpt and text search
• Echard, William E. Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852–1870 (1985) online edition
• Jardin, Andre, and Andre-Jean Tudesq. Restoration and Reaction 1815–1848 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988)
• Plessis, Alain. The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852–1871 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
• Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. online edition

الجمهورية الثالثة: 1871-1940

• Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914–1938 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
• Bury, J. P. T. France, 1814-1940 (2003) ch 9-16
• Kedward, Rod. France and the French: A Modern History (2007) pp 1–245
• Lehning, James R.; To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic (2001) online edition
• Mayeur, Jean-Marie, and Madeleine Rebirioux. The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871–1914 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
• Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. complete text online at Questia
• Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War (2007)
• Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 (1976) excerpt and text search
• Zeldin, Theodore. France, 1848–1945 (2 vol. 1979), topical approach

الحرب العالمية الأولى

• Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2005) 304pp
• Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
• Winter, J. M. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1919 (1999)

فيشي (1940-1944)

• Azema, Jean-Pierre. From Munich to Liberation 1938–1944 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1985)
• Berthon, Simon. Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle. (2001). 356 pp.
• Funk, Arthur Layton. Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943–1944 (1959) online edition
• Gildea, Robert. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation (2004) excerpt and text search
• Jackson, Julian. France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (2003) excerpt and text search
• Kersaudy, Francois. Churchill and De Gaulle (2nd ed 1990 482pp
• Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890–1944 (1984; English ed. 1991), 640pp; excerpt and text search
• Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France 2nd ed. (2001) excerpt and text search

الجمهوريات الرابع والخامس (1944 حتى الوقت الحاضر)

• Berstein, Serge, and Peter Morris. The Republic of de Gaulle 1958–1969 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2006) excerpt and text search
• Berstein, Serge, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Christopher Woodall. The Pompidou Years, 1969–1974 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2000) excerpt and text search
• Bourg, Julian ed. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2004) 426 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-0792-8.
• Cerny, Philip G. The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle"s Foreign Policy. (1980). 319 pp.
• Hauss, Charles. Politics in Gaullist France: Coping with Chaos (1991) online edition
• Kedward, Rod. France and the French: A Modern History (2007) pp 310–648
• Kolodziej, Edward A. French International Policy under de Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur (1974) online edition
• Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945–1970 (1993)
• Northcutt, Wayne. Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946–1991 (1992)
• Rioux, Jean-Pierre, and Godfrey Rogers. The Fourth Republic, 1944–1958 (1989) (The Cambridge History of Modern France)
• Williams, Charles. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle (1997) excerpt and text search
• Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. De Gaulle"s Republic (1965) online edition