At The Heart Of A Tiger: Clemenceau And His World, 1841-1929

by Gregor Dallas (Author)

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  1993

  $5.17

  What Winston Churchill was to World War II, Georges Clemenceau was to the First. In the eyes of posterity he is the Tiger , the defiant leader who in a single year turned the Allied Forces, bled white in their trenches and riven by mutiny, into the victors of 1918. In this work, Dallas tells the story of the child born in the most Catholic rural corner of France to an atheist father and a Protestant mother, of the young journalist in post-Civil War America, of the mayor of Montmartre during the Commune, the bloodiest revolt in the history of Paris, of the politician and man of letters who loved the salons of the Belle Epoque and the paintings of the Impressionists.