With the storming of the Bastille in July 1789, a revolution began that was to unhinge an entire world. The seemingly eternal order of the ancien régime came crashing down, a king by the grace of God fled and ended up on the guillotine, radical revolutionaries like Danton and Robespierre took power, everything quickly descended into a frenzy of virtue and terror with thousands of deaths, until the revolution ate its children and in the end a victorious general took the reins. In barely ten years, among the most intense in world history, the door to a new age was flung wide open. Johannes Willms, one of the best experts on the revolutionary era, describes, explains and analyses people, forces and motives. Above all, however, he repeatedly lets the protagonists themselves have their say. This gives his account the vividness and power for which his historical works have rightly been praised.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Willmas, J.
Title
Tugend und Terror. Geschichte der Französischen Revolution
Details
Some b/w illustrations. 831 pages.
State
new
Verlag C. H. Beck oHG Wilhelmstr. 9 80801 München Deutschland
