Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August & the Proud Tower (Library of America
- ISBN 13:
- 9781598531459
- author:
- Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Library of America
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 1264
- Dimensions:
- 20 x 12.4 cm
- Genre:
- History, Europe, World War I 1914-1918, European history, First World War, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe - History - 1871-1918, History, Modern - 20th century, World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Western Front, World War, 19
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August and The Proud Tower offer a gripping and insightful exploration of the events leading up to World War I. With her unique blend of rigorous scholarship and elegant literary art, Tuchman masterfully weaves together the complex interplay of personalities and events that shaped the world in the years preceding the war. This collection of essays, including Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, provides a fascinating and nuanced portrait of the world in transition. Spanning topics from international socialism to the Dreyfus Affair in France, The Proud Tower sets the stage for the cataclysm of 1914, offering a vivid and indelible panorama of an epoch in turmoil. Presented in one volume for the first time, this edition marks the centennial year of Tuchman's life and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Guns of August.
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