The Prisoners of September Hardcover – May 29, 1975

Leon Garfield created this very believable Historic based novel. The Prisoners of September really highlights the darkness of the French Revelution. I got this book for free a few years back when the library at my school was getting rid of a few books. I got this one because the cover appealed to me and once I read the inside cover I couldn't put it down. It is so believable it made my cry and be in awe of the description of the massacre. The beheadings, the screaming, the chaos was written so vividly it felt real. The story is based in 1789 with Lewis Boston and Richard Mortimer boyhood friends. They soon find out by the hand of fate that the French Revolution was not all black and white, right and wrong. Liberte`, Egalite`, Fraternite`(Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity) was refrenced as it was the french motto yelled out as there want for freedom, there need for equality in law to maintain a sameness of rules, status, rights, respect, oppotunities and privilidges, that must be applied to all and there wanting this (all the people) as one distict group. Lewis sees it is appaling what takes place so he spends money to rescue a noble famaliy from the Bastille before the mob gets ahold of them. Fearing for himself his friend one of the Septembers and the family he is protecting. He flees Paris and France with the family in toe and returns to his home country of England. The book is fast paced and enjoyable I won't say anymore about the book or I will spoil it. It is a must read very enjoyable novel.

i really like leon gardfield