BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE

Go into battle with Gen. Jaroslaw Dombrowski and Louise Michel in my

novel, BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE.

The book will be available for free downloads from Kindle for five days this week, from Wednesday (April 1, 2020) through Sunday (

April 5, 2020).

Please read it, enjoy it, and review it.

Free downloads of four-star novel of the Paris Commune

Go into battle with Gen. Jaroslaw Dombrowski and Louise Michel in my novel, BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE.

The book will be available for free downloads from Kindle for five days this week, from Sunday (Feb. 5, 2017) through Thursday (Feb. 9, 2017).

Please read it, enjoy it, and review it.

Free downloads of four-star novel, BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE

 BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE by Kenneth C. Crowe, will be available for free downloads from Kindle for five days this week, from Monday (April 18, 2016) through Friday (April 22, 2016).

The book was inspired by the exploits of war correspondent Januarius MacGahan, during the uprising by the Parisian working class, led by left wing intellectuals, in the spring of 1871.

Gen. Jaroslaw Dombrowski and Louise Michel are major figures in the novel, as in real life.

In the four-star review, a reader offered the highest praise a novel can get: “Unputdownable.”

Please read it, enjoy it, and review it.

FOUR TUESDAYS and a Friday in May

My historical novel, BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE, will be available as a free download from Kindle f0r four Tuesdays and a Friday during May, 2014: May 6, 13, 20, 23, and 27. The military accomplishments and death of Jaroslaw Dombrowski along with the stunning heroics of Louise Michel are part of the complex story of what Marx called the Civil War in France. There has been only one review of this novel so far and that by a reader in the United Kingdom who said he couldn’t put it down. What better recommendation could novel have? Please download it, read it, and review it if you are so inclined.

The 142nd Anniversary of the Paris Commune

I’m observing the 142nd anniversary of the Paris Commune by offering my novel, BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE, as a free download from Kindle from March 18, 2013 to March 22, 2013. My protagonist, Ben Connolly, arrives in Paris in the early hours of March 18, 1871, the day the French Central Government sent troops to seize the cannon collected on the heights of Montmarte by Paris National Guard. That maneuver sparked a bloody rebellion during which the Paris working class seized control of the city for almost two months. BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE is drawn from the real-life exploits of New York Herald foreign correspondent Januarius A. MacGahan. MacGahan emerged during the Commune as a super reporter who combined talent with luck in his first major assignment for the Herald. I chose to write a fictionalized version of MacGahan since another author had beaten me to the writing of his biography. The novel includes many of the personalities who were involved in the Commune including General Jaroslaw Dombrowski, Louise Michel, Raoul Rigault, Archbishop Georges Darboy, General Gaston Marquis de Gallifet, and Paul Verlaine.

A suggestion: My novel, THE PENCIL ARTIST is available as an e-book on Smashwords, Kindle, and Barnes and Noble; as a paperback on Amazon.

Free download of a Paris Commune novel on Kindle

BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE will be available as a free download on Kindle from Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, through Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. This novel, inspired by the exploits of war correspondent Januarius A. MacGahan, will take you to the bloody days in the spring of 1871 when the café radicals left their absinthe and coffee behind to lead the working class of Paris into an uprising against the French government that ended with the slaughter of an estimated 40,000 men, women and children by the French Army. The protagonist, Ben Connolly, is a Civil War veteran from the slums of New York, with the rather modest aspiration of being hired as a staff reporter for the New York Vision. On the whim of Adrian Metzger, the Vision’s publisher, Ben is dispatched to Paris, where he is almost killed several times, falls in love with an American artist, becomes a fast friend of General Jaroslaw Dombrowski, and writes notable stories. He emerges with an expansive ambition to become a famous writer instead of an obscure journalist. I urge you to download BEN CONNOLLY in the PARIS COMMUNE, to read it, and to review it—whether you like it or not.

A suggestion: My novel, THE PENCIL ARTIST is available as an e-book on Smashwords, Kindle, and Barnes and Noble; as a paperback on Amazon.