The Terrible Year
the paris commune 1871
$31.05
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2005
Summary
France Ablaze: The Story of the Paris Commune
Beneath the glittering facade 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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842127599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1842127594 |
| Author: | Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, Alistair Horne |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2005 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Sir Alistair Horne, CBE
Educated Le Rosey, Switzerland and Jesus College, Cambridge. WWII included attachment in MI5. Foreign correspondent Daily Telegraph 1952-5. Founded the Alistair Horne research fellowship in modern history, St Antony’s, Oxford 1969. Prizes include Hawthornden (for The Price of Glory) and Wolfson (for A Savage War of Peace). He was knighted in 2003 (Queen’s birthday honours) for services to Franco-British relations.
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