The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914, Issue 159 by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914, Issue 159

Barbara W. Tuchman

528 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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