The Proud Tower
by Tuchman, Barbara W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19738
- Title
- The Proud Tower
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- WWI, Edwardian Era
- Bookseller catalogs
- Militaria; Militaria / WWI;
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