By William Doyle - The Oxford History of the French Revolution (2nd Edition)

I needed this book for a research I was doing and it was exactly the perfect sale. Would recommend this to others.

While I had to read this volume for a course, I must admit that I learned quite a bit, even though I had a rather broad education....

I was looking for a good introduction to the French Revolution and this book fell flat for me. Doyle's writing style did not come across as readable to me, and many details were interjected without proper context or explanation. Dry, storyless, and hard to read - I wish I had chosen another book instead of this one.

I wanted to learn about the French Revolution in less than 500 pages and after reading this book, I'm glad I bought it.Doyle's tome is uniquely comprehensive without being burdensome. He methodically, yet briskly, establishes the patchwork of politics, economies and personalities of 18th Century France that conspired to lead the country into a terrifying and bloody Revolution.There may be greater (and longer) books on the subject, but ounce-for-ounce, this is probably one of the best.

This book has all the virtues--and all the vices---of academic history. The facts are all there and the professor is admirably fair and balanced, so hard to find when the French Revolution is the subject at hand, but where's the passion? I confess I found myself constantly checking how many pages to go as I neared the end of these over four hundred dry pages. This is a book for the student more than the general reader looking for the passion behind the facts, or for exciting narrative. At the end I was happier to have finished than to have read this book.

A classic - perhaps the classic in English - review of the French Revolution

Very informative

I liked this book, especially how the author (no relation, by the way) tied it up in the last chapter, a good summary of the whole book. My criticism is the lack of comparison with the contemporary American Revolution.

Very comprehensive. Great condition

Great book