{"product_id":"the-terror-the-shadow-of-the-guillotine-france-17921794","title":"The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the audience that made a major bestseller of Simon Schamas Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution comes this exhaustively researched  character-driven chronicle of revolutionary terror  its victims  and the young men---energetic  idealistic  and sincere---who turned the French Republic into a slaughterhouse. 1792 found the newborn Republic threatened from all sides: the British blockaded the coasts  Continental armies poured over the frontiers  and the provinces verged on open revolt. Paranoia simmering in the capital  the Revolution slipped under control of a powerful clique and its fanatical political organization  the Jacobin Club. For two years  this faction  obsessed with patriotism and purity---self-appointed to define both---inflicted on their countrymen a reign of terror unsurpassed until Stalins Russia. It was the time dominated by Maximilien Robespierre  Georges Danton  Jean-Paul Marat and Louis-Antoine Saint-Just (called The Angel of Death)  when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette met their ends  when any hint of dissent was ruthlessly quashed by the State. It was the time of the guillotine  neighborhood informants  and mob justice. This extraordinary  bloodthirsty period comes vividly to life in Graeme Fifes new book. Drawing on contemporary police files  eyewitness accounts  directives from the sinister Committee for Public Safety  and heart-wrenching last letters from prisoners awaiting execution  the author brilliantly re-creates the psychotic atmosphere of that time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946168938549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312352247","price":56.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312352240.jpg?v=1769926886","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-terror-the-shadow-of-the-guillotine-france-17921794","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}