Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
Seems interesting.<p>&gt; ‘Only by getting “up close” and drilling down into the “infinitely small” details of the revolutionary process’, its author insists, can the day’s course and outcome be understood.<p>Sometimes history is inevitable, and small details do not matter. Sometimes the small details make all the difference. The assasination of archduke Ferdinand may or may not be such a detail. The fall of Robespierre seems like it could be another, from what I gather from the article.<p>What are other examples of when the course of history have balanced on a knife&#x27;s edge?