August 1914 (History and Politics)

BARBARA W. TUCHMAN

Constable

New York. 25 cm. XX, 677 p.,(32) p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal. Idioma Inglés. (by) Barbara W. Tuchman. Col. maps on lining papers. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1978. Bibl. : p. 599-617. - Index .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0333197526; 9780333197523

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

History

Macmillan

'A magnificent achievement, a masterpiece of the historian's art.' Guardian 'It is a brilliant achievement.' Sunday Times August 1914 recounts the insane, uncontrollable plunge into war and the bloody catalogue of the battles of its first thirty days.

August 1914: The First Month of the First World War

Pan/Macmillan

"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 it."--Barbara W. TuchmanThe fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I 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 history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaurès was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended."Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish. . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."--The New York Times"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."--Time

THE PROUD TOWER: A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE WAR, 1890-1914 (PAPERMACS)

World

Papermac

Practising History

<p>A collection of essays by the author of "A Distant Mirror", "Zimmermann Telegram", "Bible and Sword", "The Proud Tower" and "August 1914". This is a discussion of the techniques of writing history and the historian's role and covers subjects from Mao's China to Israel's Six Day War and Watergate.</p>

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Ballantine Books

"stirring account of the religious, cultural and political motives which led to the British conquest of the Holy Land in 1917 and to the Balfour Declaration..."

Bible and Sword: History of Britain in the Middle East

Asia

A collection of essays by the author of "A Distant Mirror", "Zimmermann Telegram", "Bible and Sword", "The Proud Tower" and "August 1914". This is a discussion of the techniques of writing history and the historian's role and covers subjects from Mao's China to Israel's Six Day War and Watergate.

Humanity Press/prometheus Bk

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

Europe

The Zimmermann Telegraph

<p>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 spent "practicing history."</p>

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August 1914 (History and Politics)

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

August 1914: The First Month of the First World War

THE PROUD TOWER: A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE WAR, 1890-1914 (PAPERMACS)

Practising History

Bible and Sword: History of Britain in the Middle East

Practising History

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

The Zimmermann Telegraph

Practising History