The Proud Tower by Barbara W Tuchman

The Proud Tower by Barbara W Tuchman

The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with "a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish" (The New York Times)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August

During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of 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; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.
 
The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era.

Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose books The Guns of August and Stilwell and the American Experience in China won her international fame.

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ISBN 13	9780345405012
ISBN 10	0345405013
Title	The Proud Tower
Author	Barbara W Tuchman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1996-08-27
Number of pages	608
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