Three Historic Paperbacks by Barbara Tuchman

Tuchman, Barbara W. - The March of Folly (2009)

From Troy to Vietnam

London, Abacus, 2009

Paperback
13 x 20 x 3,5 cm.
559 PAGES

In The March of Folly (originally published in 1984) Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman explores one of the paradoxes of history: the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests despite the availability of feasible alternatives.
She draws on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
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.


Tuchman, Barbara W. - The Proud Tower (1967)

A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914

New York, Bantam, 1967

Paperback
10,5 x 18 x 3 cm.
615 PAGES




London, Penguin, 1980

Paperback
13 x 20 x 3 cm.
677 PAGES

The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August

During 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 The Proud Tower, 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.


Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history

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