Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 is a 1966 book by Barbara Tuchman, consisting of a collection of essays she had published in various periodicals during the mid-1960s. It followed the publication of the highly successful The Guns of August. Each chapter deals with a different country, …

The Guns of August, juga diterbitkan dengan judul August 1914, adalah sebuah volume sejarah yang ditulis oleh barbara Tuchman. Buku ini berlatar bulan pertama Perang Dunia I. Setelah bab pembuka, Tuchman menjelaskan dengan sangat terperinci peristiwa-peristiwa pembuka konflik ini. Fokusnya kemudian menjadi sejarah …

The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of …