As a youth in Paris, son of the publisher Henry Vizetelly, the author watched the Second Empire fall, the republic proclaimed and the Prussians close around the city. He describes the siege from the outposts and the streets, hunger, sorties and bombardment, carrying messages and observing the people’s war at close hand.
A lively eyewitness memoir, published in 1914, of a war that reshaped Europe. Download the free EPUB.