The proud tower
a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914
by Barbara Tuchman
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The author presents the fateful quarter-century leading up to the War, concentrating on the social aspects, not the state aspects, of history.
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The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914
1996, Ballantine Books
in English
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The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the War, 1890-1914
1971, Bantam
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-510) and index.
Originally published: Macmillan Co., 1966.
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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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