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The Terror (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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The Terror (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
You Save R88 (14%)
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For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of
the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous
liberation into an orgy of apparently pointless bloodletting has
been the focus of countless reflections on the often malignant
nature of humanity and the folly of revolution. David Andress, a
leading historian of the French Revolution, presents a radically
different account of the Terror. In a remarkably vivid and
page-turning work of history, he transports the reader from the
pitched battles on the streets of Paris to the royal family's
escape through secret passageways in the Tuileries palace, and
across the landscape of the tragic last years of the Revolution.
The violence, he shows, was a result of dogmatic and fundamentalist
thinking: dreadful decisions were made by groups of people who
believed they were still fighting for freedom but whose survival
was threatened by famine, external war, and counter-revolutionaries
within the fledging new state. Urgent questions emerge from
Andress's trenchant reassessment: When is it right to arbitrarily
detain those suspected of subversion? When does an earnest
patriotism become the rationale for slaughter?
Combining startling narrative power and bold insight, "The Terror"
is written with verve and exceptional pace-it is a superb popular
debut from an enormously talented historian.
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