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Title: Fiction presented as history
Review: While well written and entertaining, readers should be warned that this book is more fiction than fact. Historically, Loomis only relies on inaccurate Thermidorian sources written by individuals anxious to exonerate themselves and blame all evils of the revolution on Robespierre and the Jacobians. He also continually distorts, invents and rearranges facts. If you want to learn about the actual events, there are many accurate sources by legitimate historians such as David P. Jordan, Norman Hampson, J.M. Thompson and R.R. Palmer. Then you will be reading genuine history, not the twisted fantasies of someone posing as an historian.
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