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The War Against Paris, 1871 (Paperback)
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The War Against Paris, 1871 (Paperback)
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The Paris Commune of 1871 is one of the great romantic failures in
revolutionary history. Yet very little is known about its enemies,
and especially the army, which first fraternized with the
revolutionaries and then, two months later, crushed them with the
utmost violence. This book, based on extensive archival research,
is the first serious study of the role of the army in the civil
war. It examines its composition and organization, its weaknesses
and their effect on government policy, the steps taken to improve
morale and discipline, the state of mind of officers and men and,
finally, the conduct of the army in battle and the causes of the
final bloodshed, in which about 20,000 Parisians were killed in the
fighting or executed afterwards. Its purpose is to cast new light
on the policy of the government and the problems of using an army
in a civil war, and to tell for the first time the full tragedy of
the suppression of the Comune, one of the bloodiest and least
understood social conflicts in the history of modern Europe.
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