THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (PAPERBACK) - Softcover

GEORGE RUDE

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Synopsis

George Rude has distilled his wide knowledge into a sharp portrait and has produced a highly readable account of one of the most important periods in history of the western world.

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About the Author

Eighty-two-year-old Irish writer, scholar, diplomat and politician, the only contemporary writer who can be compared to George Orwell and André 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 Ireland for 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 The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution.

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