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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.
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1987
Price: $18.95
"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary
The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1987
Price: $18.95
"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary
The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war... Read more >
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Guns of August
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 8, 1994
Price: $17.00
"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained...The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 8, 1994
Price: $17.00
"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained...The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating... Read more >
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Proud Tower
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $18.00
"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $18.00
"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in... Read more >
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Zimmermann Telegram
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $14.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $14.00
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The March of Folly
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $16.95
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $16.95
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that... Read more >
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Bible and Sword
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $16.00
With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $16.00
With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and... Read more >
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First Salute
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 6, 1989
Price: $18.00
"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 6, 1989
Price: $18.00
"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly... Read more >
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Practicing History: Selected Essays
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1982
Price: $14.95
From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1982
Price: $14.95
From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime... Read more >
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