Lissagaray fought for the Commune and wrote its history in exile. He follows Paris from the Prussian siege and the seizure of the National Guard’s cannon on the eighteenth of March, through the Central Committee’s brief government and the fighting at Issy and Neuilly, to the onslaught of Thiers’s troops in the final week of May.
The classic partisan account of the Commune, in the English translation by Eleanor Marx. Download the free EPUB.