The French Revolution
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-297-64595-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a comprehensive account of the extraordinary events, from the accession of Louis XVI in 1774 to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, that shook France and Europe to the core, examining the French Revolution's legacy for Europe, America and the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 132 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-297-64595-5 (9780297645955)
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Eighty-two-year-old Irish writer, scholar, diplomat and politician, 'the only contemporary writer who can be compared to George Orwell and Andre Malraux'(according to Atlantic Monthly), Conor Cruise O'Brien has been called Ireland's Churchill, formidable as both an historian and a statesman. Better known in the rest of the world as an historian and man of letters (former editor-in-chief of the Guardian), O'Brien is revered and reviled in his native Irelandfor his longstanding and courageous opposition to the IRA. Conor Cruise O'Brien is the author of many books, among them Ancestral Voices, Edmund Burke and