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The Debacle [1870-71] (Penguin Classics) Mass market paperback - 1982
by Émile Zola (Author); Leonard Tancock (Translated With An Introduction by); E.V. Rieu (Founding Editor)
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- Title The Debacle [1870-71] (Penguin Classics)
- Author Émile Zola (Author); Leonard Tancock (Translated With An Introduction by); E.V. Rieu (Founding Editor)
- Illustrator Detail From 'Fire At the Hôtel de Ville During the Commune, 29 March 1871' by Germano Facetti (Cover Design)
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Reprinted: 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 520
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics/Published by Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, UK, et al.
- Date 1982
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6iBe0094
- ISBN 9780140442809 / 0140442804
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 1.03 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 2.62 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, War stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 73156279
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle together to endure a disorganised and brutal war, the savage destruction of France's Second Empire and the fall of Napoleon III. One of the greatest of all war novels, The Debacle is the nineteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A forceful and deeply moving tale of close friendship, it is also a fascinating chronicle of the events that were to lead, in the words of Zola himself, to 'the murder of a nation'.
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CAMP had been set up two kilometres from Mulhouse, nearer the Rhine, in the middle of the fertile plain.