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The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution Paperback – Import, September 7, 2006

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The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find their modern form, and it was the Revolution that first asserted the claims of universal individual rights, on which our current understandings of citizenship are based. But the Terror was, as much as anything else, a civil war, and such wars are always both brutal and complex. The guillotine in Paris claimed some 1,500 official victims, but executions of captured counter-revolutionary rebels ran into the tens of thousands, and deaths in the areas of greatest conflict probably ran into six figures, with indiscriminate massacres being perpetrated by both sides.

The story of the Terror is a story of grand political pronouncements, uprisings and insurrections, but also a story of survival against hunger, persecution and bewildering ideological demands, a story of how a state, even with the noblest of intentions, can turn on its people and almost crush them.

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    448 pages
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  3. Publisher
    Abacus
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    September 7, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    7.87 x 1.18 x 5.2 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0349115885
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0349115887
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Commendably fair and even-handed . . . A lucid study―Munro Price, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

The most authoritative treatment we are likely to have for many years―William Doyle, INDEPENDENT

David Andres s' important new book is a major contribution in our efforts to rethink the French Revolution . . . It is also exceptionally well-written―Timothy Tacket, author of BECOMING A REVOLUTIONARY AND WHEN THE KING TOOK FLIGHT

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David Andress is a leading scholar of the French Revolution and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abacus; New Ed edition (September 7, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0349115885
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0349115887
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.87 x 1.18 x 5.2 inches
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Though the dust jacket states the book is for a general readership, it was not an easy read. However, it was due largely to the enormously complex chain of events the author covered between 1791 and the moment Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself emperor. I found it difficult to keep track of the sheer number of participants the author covered in his book constantly referring to his cast of characters at the end of the book. The author did not simply relate the actions of a particular individual in the events of the Terror. He provided the reasons and thinking of that individual as best the reasons and thinking can be known. On a side note, even though murders, assassinations and executions abound, there is very little description of gore in this book. Perhaps the most frightening passage of the book appears in the conclusion of the author's introduction.
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