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August 1914
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0333305167 (0-333-30516-7)
Softcover, Papermac

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- August 1914: ISBN 0094521107 (0-09-452110-7)
  Hardcover, Constable & Company Limited
- August 1914: ISBN 0333305167 (0-333-30516-7)
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0345314271 (0-345-31427-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER [via]
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Bible and Sword: How the British Came to Palestine
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0333334140 (0-333-33414-0)
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Bt-a distant Mirror
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0345301455 (0-345-30145-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0333644700 (0-333-64470-0)
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In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors. [via]
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The First Salute
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0345336674 (0-345-33667-4)
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"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnificent portrait of General George Washington and recounts in riveting detail the events responsible for the birth of our nation. [via]
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- The First Salute: ISBN 0345336674 (0-345-33667-4)
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0026203103 (0-02-620310-3)
Hardcover, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Incorporated

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Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgotten.
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- The Guns of August: ISBN 0026203111 (0-02-620311-1)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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  Hardcover, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Incorporated
The March of Foll: From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0333656865 (0-333-65686-5)
Softcover, Papermac

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The March of Folly
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0345308239 (0-345-30823-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: 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' persistent folly in Vietnam. THE MARCH OF FOLLY brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today's reader. [via]
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Notes from China,
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0020748000 (0-02-074800-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Practising History
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0345303636 (0-345-30363-6)
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From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history." [via]
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The Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0333698827 (0-333-69882-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."
--Barbara W. Tuchman
The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.
In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaur�s was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
"Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish. . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."
--The New York Times
"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."
--Time

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Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0333564219 (0-333-56421-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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- Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45: ISBN 0333564219 (0-333-56421-9)
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0026202905 (0-02-620290-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co

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Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Her story is an account of both American relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe," Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of The National Review, "one of the historian's most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating epic story." [via]
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Zimmermann Telegram
by Barbara W. Tuchman

ISBN 0020548206 (0-02-054820-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson remained unshakable in his neutrality. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel America into the war came into a quiet British office. One of countless messages intercepted by the crack team of British decoders, the Zimmermann telegram was a top-secret message from Berlin inviting Mexico to join Japan in an invasion of the United States: Mexico would recover her lost American territories while keeping the U.S. occupied on her side of the Atlantic. How Britain managed to inform America of Germany's plan without revealing that the German codes had been broken makes for an incredible, true story of espionage, intrigue, and international politics as only Barbara W. Tuchman could tell it. [via]
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