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The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune 1871
Cbe Sir Alistair Horne
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Description for The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune 1871
Paperback. A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 138.
A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history.
Beneath the glittering façade of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire there were forces of seething social and political unrest. When France succumbed to the Prussian invaders these forces came to the surface and the Commune took over.
It ruled for only a brief seventy days before it died in a holocaust of fire and bloodshed that was far worse than anything perpetrated during France's Great Revolution of 1789, but it left behind an indelible mark which spread far beyond the boundaries of France.
'A brilliant writer' New York ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Phoenix London
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
138g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842127599
SKU
V9781842127599
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About Cbe Sir Alistair Horne
Alistair Horne was educated at Le Rosey, Switzerland, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He ended his war service with the rank of Captain in the Coldstream Guards attached to MI5 in the Middle East. From 1952 to 1955 he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. In 1969 he founded the Alistair Horne research fellowship in modern history, St ... Read more
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