Fighting for freedom: the storming of the Bastille and the French Revolution
The French Revolution of 1789 ushered in over half a century of civil insurrection in Europe and around the world, culminating in a second great year of revolutions in 1848. David Andress and Mike Rapport, who have written books on these respective years, chart the course of the uprisings and explain what the fight was for
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