Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August, the Proud Tower (Loa #222)

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Book Overview

Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the all-too-human failures of leaders subject to the pull of historical currents and prone, often tragically, to the ingrained biases of culture and temperament...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159853145X
• ISBN13: 9781598531459
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1264 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher