The Pale Assassin - Book List
For anyone interested in learning more about the French Revolution these are some of the books (in no particular order) that helped me before I wrote The Pale Assassin. You can also find a short list of books that contain contemporary accounts at the end of the novel.
- Origins of the French Revolution by William Doyle
- Citizens by Simon Shama
- The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution by David Andress
- The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
- Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
- Liberty: the Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore
- Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
- The Age of Revolution by EJH Hobsbawn
- Paris in the Terror by Stanley Loomis
- Revolution and Terror in France 1789 – 95 by DG Wright
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
