Description
In this blistering book, David Andress shows how the West has abandoned its history and lost its memory.
About the Author
David Andress is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution, 1789: The Revolutions that Shook the World and Beating Napoleon.
Reviews
To understand our current political situation [...] this book is to be recommended as a handy primer - particularly on France's postwar political travails * Spectator *
A stimulating look at the way in which history shapes events * History Revealed *
[Andress] repudiates a collective failure to come to terms with the collapse of a historical bubble, when racist empire underwrote domestic achievement and granted international prestige * Guardian *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788540056
Author Dr David Andress
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Apollo
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC