Practicing History: Selected Essays
by Tuchman, Barbara W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Erasure mark on front free endpaper corner, small moisture stain near top of spine only, text as new: NF/in price clipped VG+ dj
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About This Item
NY.: Knopf., 1981.. Black cloth.. Erasure mark on front free endpaper corner, small moisture stain near top of spine only, text as new: NF/in price clipped VG+ dj.. 8vo. Second Printing before Publication. Errata slip laid in.
Synopsis
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August —a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute .
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- Bookseller
- The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9068103001
- Title
- Practicing History: Selected Essays
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth.
- Book Condition
- New Erasure mark on front free endpaper corner, small moisture stain near top of spine only, text as new: NF/in price clipped VG+ dj
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf.
- Place of Publication
- NY.
- Date Published
- 1981.
- Pages
- 306pp.
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- History, Barbara Tuchman, Historical Essays, Modern History, 20th Century History
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