Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, which won the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books: The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the
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Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with
The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with
The Guns of August, which won the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books:
The Proud Tower,
Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize),
A Distant Mirror,
Practicing History, and
The March of Folly.
The First Salute was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.