![]() ![]() Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era. Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute. The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram: America Enters the War, 1917-1918 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 Jaures on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. ![]() ax 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. 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 clim. Tuchman's Great War Series (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]() The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 Barbara W. ![]()
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