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That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship

by Robert Tombs, Isabelle Tombs · 2006

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An account-narrated from both sides-of the love-hate relationship between Britain and France that began in the time of Louis XIV.

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epic · 816 pages

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