Éric Vuillard Books in Order

Through Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, Éric Vuillard examines how conquest and violence became popular entertainment. Native American performers, frontier celebrities and the aftermath of Wounded Knee reveal the human suffering concealed behind a celebrated American spectacle.

Éric Vuillard revisits meetings, deals and failures of judgment that helped Nazi Germany consolidate power and annex Austria. Industrialists, politicians and diplomats appear in a compressed account of the greed and acquiescence behind Europe’s approaching catastrophe.

In Reformation-era Germany, preacher Thomas Müntzer takes demands for religious reform into a struggle against social inequality. Éric Vuillard follows the grievances and rebellion of ordinary people who challenge rulers promising salvation while preserving earthly privilege.

Éric Vuillard examines France’s disastrous war in Indochina through the politicians, financiers and commercial interests that sustained colonial rule. Decisions made far from the battlefield expose the gulf between imperial prestige, private profit and the lives sacrificed.