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A review by binstonbirchill
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series by Barbara W. Tuchman
4.0
The Proud Tower presents the reader with a picture of Europe and America before the First World War, focusing on Western Europe. It mainly covers politics and social movements, class struggles and culture. Some chapters are better than others, and a reader more familiar with the era would have an easier time knowing how some of the lesser known players were. All in all it’s an interesting, if not vitally important, read on the era preceding WWI.
Giving all that was going on, it just seems like the world was ripe for war, it’s not something touched on in the book but this reader gets the impression that Tuchman would agree with him when he says that the assassination in Sarajevo was the catalyst and not the cause. The war was gonna happen eventually, only a question of when.
Giving all that was going on, it just seems like the world was ripe for war, it’s not something touched on in the book but this reader gets the impression that Tuchman would agree with him when he says that the assassination in Sarajevo was the catalyst and not the cause. The war was gonna happen eventually, only a question of when.