Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August-a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
“Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . .
What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one
has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books
“A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her
powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street
Journal
“Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great
historical tradition.”—Commentary
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