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The Guillotine
http://europeanhistory.about.com/
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A comprehensive essay on the earliest guillotines and the intended morality behind the use of the 'Terror' in the Revolution.

Medicine in the Industrial Revolution
www.bbc.co.uk/education/medicine
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Information on disease and its treatment.

Books

Glory and Terror: Seven deaths under the French Revolution by Antoine de Baecque (Routledge, 2001) £18.99
Through an examination of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies, this book brings to life the atrocities of the Revolution, including the torture and mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe and the death of Robespierre.

The Terror in the French Revolution by Hugh Gough (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997) £9.99
Presents the arguments for the guillotine, analyses the Terror's background and examines what happened between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the work of the guillotine during the Terror.

The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon's forgotten soldiers, 1809-1814 by Denis Smith (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001). US edition only; available through online bookshops.
For five years, from 1809 to 1814, a rock in the Balearic Islands acted as a prisoner-of-war camp for some 9,000 French and allied soldiers. This book includes first-person accounts of the desolate island, including one four-day period when food supplies were cut off and more than 400 men died.

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign Kept Throughout the Campaign of 1815 by Cavalie Mercer (Da Capo Press, 1995) £13.50
A classic work on the horrors of Waterloo and the nature of Napoleonic warfare. The battle scenes reveal the incredible suffering of men and horses and give a feel for the reality of war. Captain (later General) Mercer, kept this journal while commanding the G Troop Royal Horse Artillery.

The Diary of a Cavalry Officer 1809-1815 by William Lt Col Tomkinson (Spellmount, 1999) £24.95
A detailed record of the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns that looks at the difficulties of camp life, including Lord Wellington's working day from 6am until midnight and his infamous mood swings. He pulls no punches about the atrocities committed by all sides, or in his vivid descriptions of the wounded left on the fields of Waterloo.

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