The Proud Tower, (Paperback)

from tloeffler

Sometimes, the best way to understand why something happens is to study the time before it happened. Barbara Tuchman does an excellent job of placing World War I in perspective by ignoring it and w...

from hmskip

This is a hard read, but it paints a great picture of an era that is every bit as complicated and out of control as our own seems to be. Tuchman is a first-class writer of the history of this perio...

from Schmerguls

853 The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914. by Barbara Tuchman (read 20 May 1966) This book was not what I expected. It is really eight separate essays on aspects of pre-...

from baswood

A social history of the world (Europe, U. S. A. and Russia) that runs the gamut between some brilliant insightful highs to some perverse and offensive lows. What else can you expect from Barbara W....

from TerriBooks

I really enjoyed reading about the history of the turn of the century - the 19th into 20th. It was fascinating to see how many of the issues and problems we face today were present or had their roo...