JEAN-BAPTISTE CLERY:Eyewitness to Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette's Nightmare by Will Bashor, Will Bashor

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I was lucky enough to be one of the First Read winners from Goodreads for this book. Overall, it is a very compelling and sad story about the life and death of the royal family. I thought that the author did a good job at being a story teller and trying to not only give Clery's side of the story but also the various royal family's as well. I was rather confused at times with the way the author presented events. In multiple cases, he would repeat word for word what he said in reference to an event in a previous chapter. While a summary of an specific detail can be helpful when reading a book about a historical event, the summary shouldn't feel as though the author copied and then pasted the same paragraph from a previous chapter into the current one. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in the time period because it is a great educational book.