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A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Category: History
"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, f ...Show more
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
Category: History
The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here, Barbara Tuchmanmasterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of ...Show more
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Category: Military | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.
" More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to lif ...Show more
Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman
Category: History
Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize-winning epic "The Guns of August" and other classic books, Barbara W. Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian's craft in these perceptive, essential essays. From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking in ...Show more
Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 (US PB) by TUCHMAN BARBARA
Category: History
Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece--an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American. General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few Americans ev ...Show more
The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman
Category: WWI & WWII
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time "The Proud Tower, "the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Guns of August, " and "The Zimmerman Telegram" comprise Barbara W. Tuchman s classic histories of the First World War era In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize winning account ...Show more
The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War by Barbara Tuchman
Category: History
Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use...Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning acc ...Show more
The March Of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
Category: History
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a remarkable study that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Across the march of thirty centuri ...Show more
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
Category: History
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma ...Show more
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
Category: History
"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."--Barbara W. Tuchm ...Show more
The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Category: History
In January of 1917, the war in Europe was, at best, a tragic standoff. Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson was unshakable in his neutrality and in his efforts to mediate peace. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel the United St ...Show more