The Huguenots is a well-written and readable survey of the history of the Reformed Church and community in France, from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. It is a synthesis of scholarship on early modern French Protestantism which draws on a wide range of printed sources and secondary texts to examine the experience of the Huguenots and their impact on the politics and culture of Europe. The book is divided into five sections, which proceed chronologically. The first section examines the growth of Protestantism in France and the primal role of Jean Calvin and Geneva in that process. The second part explores the creation of the French Protestant Church in the 1550s and the resultant religious conflicts in the kingdom, culminating in the St Bartholomew's Day massacres. Part iii covers the Catholic League wars, the Edict of Nantes (1598) and the early seventeenth-century contest between Protestants and the Crown. The fourth section examines the socio-cultural and religious history of Protestants in the mid-seventeenth century, and the final part the increasing pressure on Huguenots under Louis xiv, resulting in the revocation of legal toleration in 1685 and the seventeenth-century revolts in the Cévennes. There are notes, a guide to further reading and some pictures of people and places prominent in the book. In all, this is a useful and sympathetic study for the informed reader and a good introduction to the topic for students of the period.