Proud Tower: A Portrait Of The World Before The War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
by Tuchman Barbara W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 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; 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 Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 528 pages .
Synopsis
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 is a 1966 book by Barbara Tuchman, collecting essays she had published in various periodicals during the mid 1960s. Each chapter deals with a different country, theme, and time (although all relate to the approximately 25 years preceding World War I).
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26356
- Title
- Proud Tower: A Portrait Of The World Before The War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
- Author
- Tuchman Barbara W
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- History > World War 1, European History, Politics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics; War; Europe;
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