[READ] Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August the Proud Tower (Library of America)

Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August the Proud Tower (Library of America)

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Author : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Pages : 1264 pages
Publisher : Library of America 2014-10-16
Language : English

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 1264 Publisher: Liary of America Writing with a Clarity Grace and novelistic sweep rare among Historians Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) Distilled The complex Interplay of PERSONALITIES and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist. she illiantly laid bare the all-too-human failures of leaders subject to the pull of historical currents and prone. often tragically. to the ingrained biases of culture and temperament. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller The Guns of August (1962) offers a majestic orchestration of the diplomatic and military history of the crucial first weeks of World War I. Tuchman s observations about the irrational escalation of conflict made a deep impression on President John F. Kennedy and influenced his actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis; fifty ye...

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