Ashes of Empire

...a series of three novels covering the period of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune. The last of the series, "e;The Red Republic,"e; was written first; the first of the series, "e;Lorraine,"e; was next written. The present volume, "e;Ashes of Empire,"e; is the middle volume of the triad, dealing with the period of the siege of Paris from the disaster at Sedan to the ...