The proud tower
a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914.
by Barbara Tuchman
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The fateful quarter-century leading up to the Great War comes magnificently to life in these pages. It was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was "heaving in its pain, its power and its hate." The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in man's record, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny. In portraying this world Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. Her aim, as she writes in her foreword, is "to discover the quality of the world from which the Great War came." - Jacket flap.
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The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914
1996, Ballantine Books
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The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the War, 1890-1914
1971, Bantam
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0553130749 9780553130744
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The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914.
1966, Hamish Hamilton
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The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914
1966, Macmillan, Ballantine Books
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0345405013 9780345405012
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