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The Whites and the Blues: Book III (Le 18 Fructidor & The Eighth Crusade): A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
France, 1793. The Revolution has devoured its own children, and the guillotine's blade falls daily in the Place de la Révolution. The nation tears itself apart: the Whites, fighting to restore the monarchy and the old order; the Blues, defending the Republic with fanatical zeal. Between them, no neutrality is possible. Every man must choose-and the wrong choice means death.
Young men who were friends now face each other across battle lines. Families fracture as fathers and sons take opposing sides. In the chaos of civil war, where the Vendée rises in royalist rebellion and Paris drowns in the Terror, loyalties shift like sand and yesterday's hero becomes today's traitor.
Through the bloodshed rides a cast of unforgettable characters: ardent revolutionaries who believe they're building a new world, desperate royalists fighting for a lost cause, soldiers caught between duty and conscience, and lovers separated by the chasm of ideology. As Robespierre's Terror reaches its height and the Revolutionary Tribunal sends thousands to their deaths, these men and women must navigate a world where survival requires impossible choices.
Alexandre Dumas plunges readers into the most violent period of the French Revolution with his trademark narrative mastery. Combining meticulous historical detail with breathless adventure, he brings to life the savage conflict that nearly destroyed France-the guerrilla warfare in the Vendée, the political machinations in Paris, the human cost of ideological warfare. The Whites and the Blues captures the Revolution in all its contradictions: noble ideals and brutal reality, heroism and atrocity, the promise of liberty and the machinery of mass murder.
Epic, tragic, and unforgettable-Dumas at his most powerful, chronicling the moment when France's future hung in the balance and every choice carried the weight of life and death.
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