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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

Tuchman, Barbara W.

Paperback

General World HistoryWorld War I

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 0345405013
ISBN13: 9780345405012
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Aug 27 1996
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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.

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