Georges Clemenceau - Hardcover

by Jean Martet (Author), Milton Waldman (Translator)

1930. Mingling autobiography with biography, Martet, Clemenceau's secretary, achieves a three-dimensional portrait of the Tiger's deeds, sayings and thoughts. He tells of the events that will always be peaks in history: the American Civil War, the Siege of Paris in 1871, the Commune, the Dreyfus Case, the series of international demonstrations at the beginning of the century and their ominous sabre-rattling, and above all the making of the World War and the making of Peace. Clemenceau, is best remembered as the senior French representative at the Versailles settlement who argued for the terms of the treaty to smash Germany.