The Proud Tower - by Barbara W Tuchman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><b><i>The Proud Tower, </i>the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Guns of August, </i> and <i>The Zimmerman Telegram</i> comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era</b> <p/></b>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 <i>The Proud Tower, </i>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. <p/> <b>Praise for <i>The Proud Tower</i></b> <p/>"[Barbara W. Tuchman's] Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Guns of August </i>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."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i></b><br><b><i> </i></b><br>"A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read <i>The Proud Tower </i>without pleasure and admiration."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/> "An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."<b>--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b> <p/> "[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."<b>--<i>Time</i></b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Barbara W. Tuchman's] Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Guns of August </i>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."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i></b> <p/> "A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read <i>The Proud Tower </i>without pleasure and admiration."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/> "An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author's knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more."<b>--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b> <p/> "[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding."<b>--<i>Time</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Barbara W. Tuchman </b>(1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with <i>The Zimmermann Telegram </i>and international fame with <i>The Guns of August</i>--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include <i>Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China </i>(for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), <i>Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, </i>and <i>The First Salute</i>.
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