"Peter McPhee "Liberty or Death"" Topic
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| KTravlos | 11 Mar 2017 5:09 a.m. PST |
I just finished the main body of Peter McPhee's "Liberty or Death: the French Revolution". I still have to read the 50 pages of notes. I will have a lot to say but for the time being this suffices:
This is the DAMN GREATEST book on the French Revolution that I have read in my life to this point. It is a masterpiece, and all secondary literature to follow will have to first deal with it. It has changed my views on many things, provided nuance were previously the vile simplifications of propaganda rule (both Left and Right wing), and treats the Revolution and its actors as protagonists of their own story, rather than as actors conscripted to other plays.
A bloody masterpiece. |
| 15th Hussar | 11 Mar 2017 6:19 a.m. PST |
A bloody masterpiece. Your last statement has many meanings, Grasshopper! |
| KTravlos | 11 Mar 2017 8:00 a.m. PST |
not that bloody in the sense (one of the useful correctives of this narrative), more bloody in the other sense. |
| vtsaogames | 11 Mar 2017 9:25 a.m. PST |
If maps aren't a major resource in this book I can get this on my Kindle. |
| vtsaogames | 11 Mar 2017 9:27 a.m. PST |
As for bloody, while there was enough of that, some 30,000 lost their lives in the '98 Irish uprising. The Russians slaughtered 10,000 Poles in a week at Warsaw. The Ancien Regime seemed a lot less upset by those. But then mostly poor people lost their lives. |
| KTravlos | 11 Mar 2017 10:03 a.m. PST |
Maps are not a major issue. |
| KTravlos | 21 Mar 2017 12:57 p.m. PST |
Here is my review. Caution: It gets political so you might not want to read after that point were I say I will be going on a political rant. link |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.