France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745

8vo. viii, 277 pp, preface, list of 8 b&w illustrations, introduction, prologue, 1. The Launching of the '45; 2. The Ministers of State; 3. Indecision at Versailles; 4. The Invasion is Ordered; 5. The Jacobites at their Zenith; 6. Richelieu takes Command; 7. The Moment of Truth at Boulogne; 8. Despair and Debacle; 9. Marking Time; 10. The Aftermath of Culloden; conclusion, appendix: I. Voltaire's 'Representations aus Etats Generaux de Hollande'; II. the treaty of Fontainebleau; III. Voltaire's manifesto on behalf of Charles Edward Stuart, December 1745, notes and references, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1981. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "This original analysis is so convincingly documented, from French sources which noone has previously studied in painstaking depth, that it cannot fail to carry conviction."