Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August & the Proud Tower
the guns of august, the proud tower (loa #222)
$146.67
- Hardcover
1264 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2012
Summary
From Empire to Cataclysm: Tuchman’s World War I Saga
In one volume for the first time, a landmark history of the coming of World War I and an acclaimed portrait of the world it destroyed.
Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara Tuchman (1912 - 1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598531459 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159853145X |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
| Author: | Barbara Wertheim Tuchman |
| Publisher: | Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1264 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 134mm x 208mm |
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About The Author
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with “The Zimmermann Telegram “and international fame with “The Guns of August,” which won the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books: “The Proud Tower,” “Stilwell and the American Experience in China” (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), “A Distant Mirror,” “Practicing History,” and “The March of Folly,” “The First Salute” was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.
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