In August 1870 a French corps waits in its tents near Mülhausen while the Prussians gather across the Rhine. Through the stolid peasant corporal Jean Macquart and the educated, volatile private Maurice Levasseur, Zola follows the marches, confusion and cavalry charges that end in the catastrophe of Sedan, and then the siege and civil war that tear Paris apart.
The great war novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle and one of the most unsparing battle narratives of the century. Download the free EPUB.
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