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The Calamitous 14th Century

A Distant Mirror

The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War

The Zimmermann Telegram

The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War

The Guns of August

The Proud Tower

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Tuchman has a gift of recreating a period and a mood by an inspired selection of detail and sheer narrative sweep. A volcano of a book

Impeccable scholarship and literary polish. Impossible to read without pleasure and admiration

Tuchman tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding

A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

The last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition took office in England in June of 1895 . . . 
 
In this now classic work, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the quarter century leading up to the First World War, from the dying embers of the British aristocracy to the fitful eruptions of the anarchist movement. She provides a compelling portrait of the key figures and conflicting ideologies of this time, giving an intimate view of an epoch that was soon to be swept away by the tide of history.

Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower is a haunting account of Britain on the cusp of total war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary. 
 
The last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition took office in England in June of 1895 . . . 
 
In this now classic work, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the quarter century leading up to the First World War, from the dying embers of the British aristocracy to the fitful eruptions of the anarchist movement. She provides a compelling portrait of the key figures and conflicting ideologies of this time, giving an intimate view of an epoch that was soon to be swept away by the tide of history. 
 
'Her intention is to make the age alive for us, and in that she abundantly succeeds' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Tuchman has a gift of recreating a period and a mood by an inspired selection of detail and sheer narrative sweep. A volcano of a book' Evening Standard 
 
'Impeccable scholarship and literary polish. Impossible to read without pleasure and admiration' New York Times 
 
Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Zimmerman Telegram are published by Penguin.

Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Proud Tower are published by Penguin.

The Proud Tower

A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

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Tuchman has a gift of recreating a period and a mood by an inspired selection of detail and sheer narrative sweep. A volcano of a book

Impeccable scholarship and literary polish. Impossible to read without pleasure and admiration

Tuchman tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding

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