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Guns Of August

Biographies & Memoirs

Barbara Tuchman

Historical

Penguin

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for animating the people, places, and events of history is on spectacular display. Praise for The March of Folly “A glittering narrative . . . a moral [book] on the crimes and follies of governments and the misfortunes the governed suffer in consequence.”—The New York Times Book Review “An admirable survey . . . I haven’t read a more relevant book in years.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Boston Sunday Globe “A superb chronicle . . . a masterly examination.”—Chicago Sun-Times

The March of Folly

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Random House]

This compellingly written history paints a magnificent portrait of General George Washington and recounts in riveting detail the events responsible for the birth of our nation.

The First Salute

Americas

KNOPF

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgotten.

Guns Of August: The Drama of August 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today [Illustrated]

Military

This volume is really two books in one: the bestselling biography ofVinegar Joe Stilwell and what Edwin O. Reischauer, the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, called "the most informative book the American public has ever had on the difficulties and failures of the American relationship with China."The reader will learn all about Stilwell, the man who saw more frontline combat than any four-star general in World War II; the truth about how we"lost" China; Feng Yu-hsiang, the Christian warlord who baptized his soldiers with a hose and taught them evangelical hymns; the story the world cannot forget - the Japanese invasion of China; and last but certainly not least, the final, explosive confrontation between Stilwell and Chiang Kai-shek -- and its momentous outcome, which still affects U.S. China policy today.

Stilwell And the American Experience in China 1911-45

Asia

BANTAM BOOKS

Practicing History—Selected Essays

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The Guns of August

The Guns Of August

This is a narrative history of the tumultuous years of the American War of Independence, using the salute of the St Eustatius as the starting point in an examination of the rivalries that determined Europe's crucial role in the American struggle.

The First Salute : View of the American Revolution

WEIDENFELD NICHOLSON HISTORY

The Zimmermann Telegram

In January 1917 when World War I was deadlocked and the United States was clinging grimly to neutrality, the British intercepted a telegram from Berlin which they knew would bring America to the aid of the Allies. This is the story of how the message was decoded and how it was put to use by the British - a tale of espionage, secret diplomacy, international politics and personal drama.

World

Phoenix_Press

From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August , comes history thru a wide-angle a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine & the Middle East, from the ancient world to the 20th century. Historically, the British were drawn to the Holy Land for two major first, to translate the Bible into English &, later, to control the road to India & access to Middle Eastern oil. With the lucid vividness that characterize all her work, Tuchman follows these twin spiritual & imperial motives—the Bible & the sword—to their seemingly inevitable endpoint, when Britain conquered Palestine at the conclusion of WWI. At that moment, in a gesture of significance & solemnity, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 established a British-sponsored mandate for a national home for the Jewish people. Throughout this account, Tuchman demonstrates that the seeds of conflict were planted in the Middle East long before the official founding of the modern state of Israel. 
“Tuchman is a wise & witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama.”— The Philadelphia Inquirer 
“In her métier as a narrative popular historical writer, Barbara Tuchman is supreme.”— Chicago Sun-Times

The Bible and the Sword : England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

Weidenfeld & Nicolson History

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