Alexis Jenni: The French Art of War [2017] paperback FILMS With over 200 astonishing first-hand

With over 200 astonishing first-hand accounts from the people who were really there

races and all forms of political conflict

Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts

Stunning photos

empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age

Alexis Jenni: The French Art of War [2017] paperback FILMS With over 200 astonishing first-handIt was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a veteran of the great colonial wars of Indochina, Vietnam and Algeria, a commander who had led his soldiers across the globe, a man with the blood of others up to his elbows. He said he would teach me to paint; he must have been the only painter in the French