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The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

By Alistair Horne

Book information

Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2007
ISBN
9780141939179, 0141939176
ASIN
B004LLIH4K
Google Books ID
FpmwVMw3ut4C
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7137989 bytes)
Pages
480\0
Time added
2024-04-01 16:43:49

Description

The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact – on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. Suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice of the Iron Chancellor’s armies and forced to surrender on humiliating terms. In this brilliant study of the Siege and its aftermath, Alistair Horne evokes the high drama of those ten fantastic months and the spiritual agony which Paris and the Parisians suffered. The Fall of Paris is the first part of the trilogy including To Lose a Battle and The Price of Glory (already available in Penguin).

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