Monographie

The Siege of Paris

  • The Siege of Paris
  • London : B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1964
  • 248 p. : ill., pl. ; In-8° (22 cm)
  • Les pl. sont comprises dans la pagination
  • The Siege of Paris in the autumn and winter of 1870-1871 was the last full-scale siege of a European capital, the first occasion of the indiscriminate bombardment of a civilian population, the source of immense hardship and suffering, and the origin of a division in the French nation which has still not been healed. Yet for the past 50 years or more it has generally been regarded either as a heaven-sent retribution for the sins of a frivolous society or as an amusing interlude in the grim history of European conflict.Now Robert Baldick has put the Siege into proper perspective. It is not a military history, but rather an entertaining, highly informative and resoundingly successful attempt to portray Paris life during these dark and momentous days in her history
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