"Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The ..."
The Guns of August(1st Edition) The Pulitzer Prize-Winning History of the First Month of WWI by BarbaraWertheimTuchman Hardcover, 613 Pages, Published 2005 by Tess Press / Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-57912-539-4, ISBN: 1-57912-539-5
"[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Wanda McCaddon -aka- Nadia May] *Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award *One of AudioFile's Best Voices of 2009 for History: Wanda McCaddon Winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and cza ..."
The Guns of August(Reprint) (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books) by BarbaraWertheimTuchman, Robert K. Massie Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 1994 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-345-38623-6, ISBN: 0-345-38623-X
"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time "The Proud Tower, "the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Guns of August, " and "The Zimmerman Telegram" comprise Barbara W. Tuchman s classic histories of the First World War era In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the ..."
"Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, ..."
"The acclaimed book that put Barbara W. Tuchman on the map, The Zimmermann Telegram is an enthralling World War I classic that foreshadowed her Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, The Guns of August. In January 1917, the war in Europe was, at best, a tragic standoff. Britain knew that all was lost unless the United States joined the war, but President Wilson was unshakable in his neutrality. At just this moment, a crack team of British ..."
"Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize–winning epic The Guns of August and other classic books, Barbara W. Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian’s craft in these perceptive, essential essays. From thoughtful pieces on the historian’s role to striking insights into America’s past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a uni ..."
The Proud Tower(Updated) A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Papermacs) by BarbaraWertheimTuchman Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 1980 by Papermac Import ISBN-13: 978-0-333-30646-8, ISBN: 0-333-30646-5
"[Read by Nadia May] The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was ''heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.'' The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change to that point in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny. Barbara Tuchman brings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shape ..."
"The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague. Barbara Tuchman reveals both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived. Here are the guilty passions, loyalties an ..."
"Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese i ..."
"A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right. During the summer of 1972—a few short months after Nixon’s legendary visit to China—master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements. The resulting reporta ..."
The Guns of August(1st Edition) The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War by BarbaraWertheimTuchman Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Kindle Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-241-96821-5, ISBN: 0-241-96821-6
"Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use...Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account o ..."
The Proud Tower A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 by BarbaraWertheimTuchman Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-61657-984-5, ISBN: 1-61657-984-6
March of Folly(Reprint) From Troy to Vietnam by BarbaraWertheimTuchman Library, Published 2008 by Paw Prints ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-0670-7, ISBN: 1-4395-0670-1
"The noted historian's essays, written over thirty-five years, include comments onthe writing of history, shorter historical and journalistic pieces, and essays ..."
Distant Mirror(Reprint) The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by BarbaraWertheimTuchman Library, Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-5857-7, ISBN: 1-4395-5857-4
"In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, ..."
"Presents a fresh view of the American Revolution, chronicling key events from 1776 to1781 and assessing the repercussions for America, England, France, and ..."
The Proud Tower(Reprint) A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 by BarbaraWertheimTuchman Library, Published 2008 by Paw Prints ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-0684-4, ISBN: 1-4395-0684-1
"Looks at the history of society and culture in the years leading up to World WarI."