Description: 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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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Number of Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1996
Topic: Modern / 20th Century, Military / World War I
Item Height: 1.2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
