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The French Revolution
by Ian Davidson
(Profile Books, £25)
“TO THE average Englishman, the French revolution means no more than a pyramid of severed heads,” George Orwell wrote in 1940.
Yet, since then, that great tsunami event which has shaped modern history has received much revisionist attention.
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