Common Books Volume V

Rebellion, victory and the difficult life after both.

Volume V brings together the Rebellion Chronicle and the Book After Victory. The pair matters because overthrow is not treated as the end of the moral problem. One book follows conflict and resistance; the other asks what people become when the struggle is over and they must live with what they have won.

Why this book is here

These two books are deliberately paired. Rebellion without the aftermath would make resistance too easy to romanticise; victory without rebellion would hide the cost by which a new order came into being.

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