Book description
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.
Suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was
gripped in the vice of the Iron Chancellor s armies and forced to
surrender on humiliating terms. In this brilliant study of the Siege
and its aftermath, Alistair Horne evokes the high drama of those ten
fantastic months and the spiritual agony which Paris and the Parisians suffered.
The Fall of Paris is the first part of the trilogy including
To Lose a Battle and The Price of Glory (already
available in Penguin).
One of Britain s greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the
author of several famous books on French history as well as a two-volume
life of Harold Macmillan.
