The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France by David Andress Paperback Book

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Author: David Andress

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Published: Dec 2006

Genre: History - General

Retail Price: $22.00

Pages: 456

Synopsis

An incisive new interpretation of the French Revolution and its violent upheaval looks at troubling parallels between the Terror and the rise of today's political and religious fundamentalism, arguing that the violence of the French Revolution resulted from dogmatic and fundamental thinking that led to a pointless bloodletting. Reprint.

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