The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Barbara W. Tuchman

588 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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reflective 63%
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