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Looks at the history of society and culture in the years leading up to World War I.
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"[Barbara W. Tuchman's] Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Guns of August "was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914-1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world."--"Newsweek"
"A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read "The Proud Tower "without pleasure and admiration."--"The New York Times"
"An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."--"Chicago Tribune"
"[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."--"Time"
[Barbara W. Tuchman s] Pulitzer Prize winning "The Guns of August "was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914 1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world. "Newsweek"
A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read "The Proud Tower "without pleasure and admiration. "The New York Times"
An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author s knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more. "Chicago Tribune"
[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding. "Time""
"[Barbara W. Tuchman's] Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914-1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world."--Newsweek "A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."--The New York Times "An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."--Chicago Tribune "[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."--Time
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"A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read "The Proud Tower "without pleasure and admiration."--"The New York Times"
"An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."--"Chicago Tribune"
"[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."--"Time"
[Barbara W. Tuchman s] Pulitzer Prize winning "The Guns of August "was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914 1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world. "Newsweek"
A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read "The Proud Tower "without pleasure and admiration. "The New York Times"
An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author s knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more. "Chicago Tribune"
[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding. "Time""
"[Barbara W. Tuchman's] Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914-1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world."--Newsweek "A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."--The New York Times "An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."--Chicago Tribune "[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."--Time
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1441760199
- ISBN 13 9781441760197
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Book Description Audio Book (CD). Condition: New. Unabridged. The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change to that point in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny. Barbara Tuchman brings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy; the anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; two peace conferences in the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of socialism, epitomized by the death of heroic Jean Jaures on the night the war began and an epoch ended. Seller Inventory # DADAX1441760199
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