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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
--Barbara W. Tuchman
The fateful quarter-century leading up to the 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 in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.
In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaurè s was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
"Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with 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
"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August thatshe could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."
--Time
Book Details
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Aug 27th, 1996
- Pages: 608
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.40in - 1.15lb
- EAN: 9780345405012
- Categories: • Modern - 20th Century - General• Social History• Wars & Conflicts - World War I
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Praise for this book
"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
What people are saying
Nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing.
Discover the work that guided JFK’s decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis in our Barbara W. Tuchman edition, collecting the Pulitzer-winning “The Guns of August” and its follow-up “The Proud Tower”, back in stock now! https://t.co/Zal9R2YOh0 https://t.co/jeiPyuxws3