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  • The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

    by Timothy Tackett ...
    Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution’s lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Glory and the Sorrow

    A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution

    by Timothy Tackett ...
    An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow, eminent historian Timothy Tackett answers this question through a masterful recreation of the world of Adrien Colson, a minor lawyer ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • When the King Took Flight

    by Timothy Tackett ...
    On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

    by Timothy Tackett ...
    How did the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion and mistrust escalated and helped propel their actions. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Terror

    The French Revolution and Its Demons

    by Michel Biard, Marisa Linton ...
    At the heart of how history sees the French Revolution lies the enigma of the Terror. How did this archetypal revolution, founded on the principles of liberty and equality and the promotion of human rights, arrive at circumstances where it carried out the violent and terrible repression of its opponents? The guillotine, initially designed to be a ‘humane’ form of capital punishment, became a ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Coming of the French Revolution

    by Georges Lefebvre, R. R. Palmer ...
    Translated by R. R. Palmer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French RevolutionThe Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

    by Timothy Tackett ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 16 min

    Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Glory and the Sorrow

    A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution

    by Timothy Tackett ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow, eminent historian Timothy Tackett answers this question through a masterful recreation of the world of Adrien Colson, a minor lawyer who lived in Paris at the end of the Old Regime and during the first eight years of the French Revolution.Based on over a thousand letters written ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Punic Wars 265-146BC

    by Adrian Goldsworthy ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

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    The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the ascendancy of Rome. An epic of war and ... Read more

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  • Liberty or Death

    The French Revolution

    by Peter McPhee ...
    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globeThe French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Fatal Purity

    Robespierre and the French Revolution

    by Ruth Scurr ...
    Franco-British Society Literary Prize WinnerShortlisted for The Duff Cooper Prize.Long-listed for The Samuel Johnson Prize.A "One Hundred Best Books of the Decade" in The Times (London)"Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read." —Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books</em... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon

    The New Penguin History of France

    by Colin Jones ...
    There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding.Colin Jones' brilliant new book ... Read more

    $22.09 USD