The Proud Tower A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890 1914

ISBN: 0345405013

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Condition: Used

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 AugustDuring 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; Diaghilevs Russian ballet and Stravinskys music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurs 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. Tuchmans classic histories of the First World War era.