Clemenceau: The Man And His Time
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Ex-Library with usual markings
Few figures in modern European history cut as commanding a silhouette as Georges Clemenceau — statesman, journalist, duelist, and the iron-willed architect of France's survival in the Great War. H. M. Hyndman's biography chronicles the life of The Tiger with the intimacy of a contemporary and the authority of a political insider, tracing Clemenceau's extraordinary journey from radical republican agitator in the turbulent years of the Third Republic to the formidable war premier who steeled a fractured nation and led it to victory in 1918. Hyndman, himself one of Britain's most prominent socialist thinkers and a man who knew Clemenceau personally, presents a portrait that is as much a study of an age as it is of a man — capturing the ferocious political battles of fin-de-siècle France, the Dreyfus Affair, and the cataclysm of the First World War. His style is sharp, opinionated, and unflinching, reflecting the combative spirit of his subject. For readers drawn to the intersection of biography and political history, this account raises a compelling question: was Clemenceau France's saviour, or its most brilliantly destructive force?
Author: H. M. Hyndman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1919, Grant Richards
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Ex-Library with usual markings
Few figures in modern European history cut as commanding a silhouette as Georges Clemenceau — statesman, journalist, duelist, and the iron-willed architect of France's survival in the Great War. H. M. Hyndman's biography chronicles the life of The Tiger with the intimacy of a contemporary and the authority of a political insider, tracing Clemenceau's extraordinary journey from radical republican agitator in the turbulent years of the Third Republic to the formidable war premier who steeled a fractured nation and led it to victory in 1918. Hyndman, himself one of Britain's most prominent socialist thinkers and a man who knew Clemenceau personally, presents a portrait that is as much a study of an age as it is of a man — capturing the ferocious political battles of fin-de-siècle France, the Dreyfus Affair, and the cataclysm of the First World War. His style is sharp, opinionated, and unflinching, reflecting the combative spirit of his subject. For readers drawn to the intersection of biography and political history, this account raises a compelling question: was Clemenceau France's saviour, or its most brilliantly destructive force?