For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
History & French Revolution

July 2021 Issue

John Adamson

Night of the Guillotine

The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

By Colin Jones

October 1993 Issue

Julian Fellowes

Things Got a Little Out of Hand

Marie-Antoinette

By Ian Dunlop

September 1987 Issue

Hilary Mantel

Unsolved Mystery of the Dauphin’s Private Parts

Marie Antionette

By Joan Haslip

April 2016 Issue

William Doyle

Power to the People

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

By Peter McPhee

February 2015 Issue

William Doyle

Bring Up the Bodies

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

By Timothy Tackett

September 2006 Issue

Allan Massie

Dressed To Be Killed

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

By Lucy Moore

June 2005 Issue

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson

Heads Will Roll

The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution

By David Andress

July 2012 Issue

Edward Vallance

The Revolution Will Not Be Realised

The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

By Frank McLynn

April 2014 Issue

Darrin M McMahon

Fighting Philosophers

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

By Jonathan Israel

December 2013 Issue

Saul David

Leading from the Front

Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769–1814

By Rory Muir

Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799–1815

By Philip Dwyer