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The Fall of Paris

The Fall of Paris

Horne, Alistair

Paperback

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryOther Wars

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0141030631
ISBN13: 9780141030630
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.46 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 is the first book of Alistair Horne's trilogy which includes The Price of Glory and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.

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. But suddenly France not least to the disbelief of her own citizens was gripped in the vice of the Prussian armies and forced to surrender on humiliating terms. Almost immediately Paris was convulsed by the savage self-destruction of the newly formed Socialist government the Commune.

In this brilliant study of the Siege of Paris and its aftermath Alistair Horne researches first-hand accounts left by official observers private diarists and letter-writers to evoke the high drama of those ten tumultuous months and the spiritual and physical agony that Paris and the Parisians suffered as they lost the Franco-Prussian war.

'Compulsively readable'
The Times

'The most enthralling historical work'
Daily Telegraph

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the civil war that still stirs the soul of France'
Evening Standard

One of Britain's greatest historians Sir Alistair Horne CBE is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany The Price of Glory The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.

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