{"product_id":"the-proud-tower-a-portrait-of-the-world-before-the-war-1890-1914-barbara-w-tuchmans-great-war-series-9780345405012","title":"The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with \"a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was \"heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower, \u003c\/i\u003e Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Zimmermann Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara W. Tuchman \u003c\/b\u003e(1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with \u003ci\u003eThe Zimmermann Telegram \u003c\/i\u003eand international fame with \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include \u003ci\u003eBible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China \u003c\/i\u003e(for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003eNotes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe First Salute\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704803299602,"sku":"9780345405012","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_490ae725-c55d-4607-a175-2994c3841e87.jpg?v=1734480003","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-proud-tower-a-portrait-of-the-world-before-the-war-1890-1914-barbara-w-tuchmans-great-war-series-9780345405012","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}