TUCHMAN BARBARA W.

Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1966. . Black Hardcovers in very Good+ condition. A sound binding, the pages are clean & bright, a small tear to the front cover top right hand cover. The DJ is in Fair condition with spine browning, chipping along the bottom edge of the covers. Book of the month. "During 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; 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 Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 528 pages. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 26356

Catalogue: History, European History, World War 1

Keywords: History > World War 1 European History Politics Politics History War Europe