Reddit mentions of The Days of the French Revolution

Christopher Hibbert's introductory history of the French Revolution is excellent. You can check it out here.

If you have the time, however, Simon Schama's wonderful Citizens is simply superb (and some would say deliciously revisionist). I liked it a lot. It is quite a bit longer than Hibbert's book. It is particularly good for the causes of the Revolution and its early days; indeed, it winds up at around the Thermidor Reaction (when Robiespierre's Terror was finally brought to an end and he himself guillotined).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0688169783

The Days Of The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert was a great narrative of the revolution that was quite easy to read.

I followed that up with Napoleon by Vincent Cronin which was a fantastic bio of Napoleon and shows how post-revolutionary france so easily fell into monarchy with Napoleon as emperor.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0006375219/ref=mp_s_a_14?qid=1335725819&sr=8-14

If you're a history buff, you should read The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert. It reads like a novel but it's packed with facts. It makes you feel as if you were there during the French Revolution, infatuated with blood, revenge, and freedom from tyranny. We read about the French Revolution and we feel so ashamed that they went from such great ideals to being the very tyrants they feared, but this book shows you first-hand how loyalty to the idea of freedom sometimes gets you so caught up in everything that you yourself are the obstacle to the freedom of others.