ENGLISH

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

By Sir Alistair Horne

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2007
ISBN
0141030631, 9780141030630
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7051528 bytes)
Pages
480\0
Topic
History
Time added
2013-12-27 09:08:59
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Европы и Аме

Description

From Alistair Horne's grand trilogy on French history-two magisterial works now back in print In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its starving citizens reduced to eating dogs, cats, and rats, and France had been forced to accept the humiliating surrender terms dictated by the Iron Chancellor Bismarck. To many, the fall of Paris seemed to be the fall of civilization itself. Alistair Horne's history of the Siege and its aftermath is a tour de force of military and social history, rendered with the sweep and color of a great novel.

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