The Fall of Paris : The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 by Alistair Horne - 1981

Penguin Publishing Group, 1981. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Penguin Books, 1981. Trade Paperback. Good. 1x1x1. Front cover and spine creased, surface tears on rear cover, pages toned, ink name on blurb page. 1981 Trade Paperback. 540 pp. Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 is the first book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Price of Glory and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. But suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice of the Prussian armies and forced to surrender on humiliating terms. Almost immediately Paris was convulsed by the savage self-destruction of the newly formed Socialist government, the Commune. In this brilliant study of the Siege of Paris and its aftermath,… Read More

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1981-04-30. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin, 1984. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0140052100

Penguin, London, 1981. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 540 pages, with maps, 16 pages of black-and-white photographs and reproductions of drawings in central sections, bibliography, references and indexed. In this book, "the author finds the cause of the collapse of France in the shallow brilliance and superficial prosperity of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire. The opening chapters portray this gaslit theatricality, moving as if upon a screen into the shock of the Siege, and the tragedy of the Commune and, later, its brutal repression. The book closes by identifying the paths which led from the Siege to the First World War, from the Commune to Lenin's Russian Revolution of 1917. -- front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. a clean secondhand copy, no damage to detail apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Reprinted paperback edition in very good condition with light creasing to spine and minor wear to cover,very light creasing to front cover and corner at rear. Edges and pages lightly tanned. No inscription or other writing throughout. Binding good. Sound copy and gently read.